Consequences Of Oppression And Discrimination In Our Society

Oppression and discrimination have plague our society since early times. As a collective society one would think that over time oppression and discrimination would turn in to acceptance and equality. Conversely, our society has taken sluggish steps towards diversity, acceptance and equality. Our society is focused on labeling people and putting them in to boxes. Oppression occurs across various groups of people based on gender, sex, race, religion and disability. Members of these diverse groups are discriminated among work places, schools, and other places. Among these places people promote diversity and non-discrimination, little is practiced. Oppression across generations leaves damaging consequences hindering society to grow away from the
Without change the cycle will continue as generations will be taught nothing better. TALK ABOUT THE CAUSES AND CONS OF O&D
Numerous privileged people get to turn a blind eye to this cycle as it will never affect them. Being privileged, has lead multiple people to safe comfortable lives, including myself. After working at the St. Louis Crisis Nursery my perception of privilege, oppression, and diversity has changed making me realize how far behind our society is with accepting the world’s diversity. Having this experience has opened my mind to not only seeing how people are struggle but how the privileged seem to not knowledge the problem. I have struggled to explain to people closest to me about this blind privileged world they are living in, wanting desperately for them to see, for them to want to help, for them to understand. I want to be a voice for the people that are shadowed by oppression. A professor once told me; ‘Kelli, you can’t be angry at something, if you do not do something with that anger. If you are want to change something, you have to do something, not just complain.’ After that I knew that I need to do something because sitting on the sidelines watching was no longer an