Looking for Mr. Green
Justice and Human Rights
I choose the topic Justice and Human Rights because I find so many deviations of rights experienced by African-American society in this story. As we know, Human rights are “basic rights and freedoms that all people are entitled to regardless of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, language, or other status.” Human rights are conceived as universal and egalitarian, with all people having equal rights by virtue of being human. These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national and international law. This has a relation to justice, a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, fairness, or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of said ethics. Justice and human rights violations often happen to the minority, this phenomenon is almost happen in all place in the world. The minorities always get the mistreatment by the majorities. Government, which has a power to control this phenomenon, still deemed less effective. The human rights violations often occur. The violation of justice and human rights often associated with racial problems. Yet, this problem is considered very sensitive, especially in big country like United States of America, French, etc. they treat minorities and also immigrants with inappropriate, although now there are laws that protect this problem, but the minorities and immigrants are still often feel unfairly by the state. The story ‘Looking for Mr. Green’ took place in Chicago in the depressed time 1930s, when the justice and human rights problems were rife in that era. The protagonist of this story is George Grebe, a thirty five year old lecturer of classical languages, in his new job of delivering relief checks to disabled people in the black district. We know from the dialogue that commonly, white people can’t be accepted in the black area, but because his life has been affected by the crisis he accepts that job.
I choose the topic Justice and Human Rights because I find so many deviations of rights experienced by African-American society in this story. As we know, Human rights are “basic rights and freedoms that all people are entitled to regardless of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, language, or other status.” Human rights are conceived as universal and egalitarian, with all people having equal rights by virtue of being human. These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national and international law. This has a relation to justice, a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, fairness, or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of said ethics. Justice and human rights violations often happen to the minority, this phenomenon is almost happen in all place in the world. The minorities always get the mistreatment by the majorities. Government, which has a power to control this phenomenon, still deemed less effective. The human rights violations often occur. The violation of justice and human rights often associated with racial problems. Yet, this problem is considered very sensitive, especially in big country like United States of America, French, etc. they treat minorities and also immigrants with inappropriate, although now there are laws that protect this problem, but the minorities and immigrants are still often feel unfairly by the state. The story ‘Looking for Mr. Green’ took place in Chicago in the depressed time 1930s, when the justice and human rights problems were rife in that era. The protagonist of this story is George Grebe, a thirty five year old lecturer of classical languages, in his new job of delivering relief checks to disabled people in the black district. We know from the dialogue that commonly, white people can’t be accepted in the black area, but because his life has been affected by the crisis he accepts that job.