Auteur : yannhsu3

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

Injustice lack of fairness, justice or an unjust act or occurrence. It is the most wrong thing to do towards a person beside treason. it is an act that goes against any laws in the U.S. constitution and any logic of common sense or sane mind.

Like in just Mercy, it could be said that putting a juvenile in an adult prison is a kind of injustice, as well as jugding someone of being a criminal just based on assumptions, color skin, gender, race, and ethnicities.

« The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities – he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites ».

__Malcolm X

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Racism is the prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. It is the main reason of the majority of the U.S. issues in society.

In the book Just mercy, It’s also racism that led to many crimes and cases that weren’t suppose to be in first place.

« The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying indicates how corrupted our criminal justice system has become by declarations of war, ‘get tough’ mantras, and a seemingly insatiable appetite for locking up and locking out the poorest and darkest among us. »

__Michelle Alexander

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The criminal justice system is the system of law enforcement that is directly involved in apprehending, prosecuting, defending, sentencing, and punishing those who are suspected or convicted of criminal offences. But in the U.S., the system has been, since it’s creation, pretty one sided and against minorities and poor people.

As we can see in just mercy,the rigged justice system filled with racism, not finding s criminal to fill in for the position of criminal for the murder of Ronda Morrisson, the member of justice system of Alabama decided to put an innocent black person as the culpable of the crime instead putting the most person respondible for the crime.

“To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.”

  ― Flora Jessop, 

A perpretrator/victim situation is the basic situation always associated with a crime where the perpretrator is the criminal and the victim, the person being the subject of the crime.
We can observe this situation in the book wrote by Bryan stevenson in just mercy. As there is a lot of crimes presented in that book, the main case, which implies Mcmillian as the perpretrator and morrisson as he victim. Even though he didn’t commit crimehe was still view as perpretrator in front of the law until he is saved.

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

― Laurell K. Hamilton,

Trauma is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience which when met make the victim

Many criminals have commited crimes and unspeakable acts that have marked and scarred many victims through their actions. They have caused trauma to those differents victims.

Like the example of Ralph myers developed or worsened his disability because he fell under the pressure of lying, for another man to go in prison for something that person didn’t commit or for charlie, who a 14, was put in adult prison for murder and then raped by the guards responsible of him. It resulted in him being traumatized but ending up being saved by stevenson.

We shall show mercy but not ask for it

__Winston churhill

Mercy is compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm.

Mercy is the action that all of us should consider towards a person before blaming them for one of their rare mistake.

Once you show mercy, people will answer back in kindness and respect you as a person with character but not as a person with power power he has not earned or has been given.

Like we can see in the book just mercy, Even after all injustice, Walter has been the subject of, he still showed mercy to the one who emprisoned him and didn’t ask for anything, not even money. And through that he started becoming successful until his decline came by fast.

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“A Rattlesnake, if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is — a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.”.

E. Stanley Jones

Fear is a feeling induced by perceived danger or threat that occurs in certain types of organisms, which causes a change in metabolic and organ functions and ultimately a change in behavior, such as fleeing, hiding, or freezing from perceived traumatic events.
It’s the reason why some people are racist. They feared what minorities can do and have already done. They fear the difference between them and us and don’t know how to handle us, so they just cast us aside or try to make us disapear.