All around us there are horrible acts being committed. Yes, Yes. We do know what's going on in the Middle East and all those horrible acts. But do we know what is going on in our country and even in those countries which aren't portrayed in the news? I'm sure some of you who are reading this are aware of some or even all of the social injustices i will mention. For the most part i wish that others who are not aware of unpublished social injustices do become more aware through the information on this page.
World AIDS Day and AIDS week, Dec. 1-6
Every year about 3 million around the globe die of the AIDS virus. In Africa, where the virus started 17 million people have already died of the virus. And at least 25 million more are expected to die of AIDS in Africa according to an article written by TIME magazine in 2000. The continent of Africa is not the healthest area in the world where poverty is rapant for a large majority of nations and people in nations within Africa. Where a multide of other viruses run unchecked and untreated one of which is AIDS. Where the countries in the continent sometimes do not get enough education for AIDS or do not even get enough medicine for the virus. The medicine for the AIDS virus is fairly costly. Annually in America a person with AIDS virus has to pay at least $12,000 or more a year for medicine alone. Therefore it is very hard for Africa to get the medicine because of the high cost. What needs to be done is for AIDS medicine manufacturers to lower their price for the medicine and/or educate more Africans about the virus so that not so many are dying of the virus. If the AIDS virus keeps infecting high numbers of Africans in Africa we will see a wipe-out of whole nations in Africa.
Our Nation(USA)!,
our country has social injustice around us all the time, ranging from poverty to crime.
1-Poverty:
Since our nation is a capitalistic country its philosophy the more money the citizens make the better off the country is as a whole. Which is not true! Capitalism thinks that when we have our upper class that the money they make will fall down to those of the lower classes or those who are unemployed. Capitalism is an unfair and unjust government system! There are many Americans who don't have jobs. The wealth from the rich doesn't fall to everyone in America. The rich seem to think that those who do not have as much money and wealth as they do just do not work hard enough for their money. That is not true in the least bit. There are those in our american society, who still live in poverty/ are in the lower class and do work very hard at their jobs. The fact is that they are doing for a lower pay for the consumer to get a lower price. That in fact is taking advantage of the hard working lower class who live from paycheck to paycheck. Although not all of those who are in poverty work hard for their living, some do get aid from the government, but that is only for usually a short period of time. Those lower class individuals who do get aid from the goovernment are in different categories as well: those who are physically or mentally handicapped get it for life sometimes and those who have children get aid usually for only a certian period of time. Even though these lower class individuals are not always working hard for a job at least they are trying hard to find a job. That's also the problem, jobs are not always available their will always be at least 5 percent of our society who are not employed no matter how hard they look. Or there will be jobs that they are not qualified to fill because they do not have proper education or training. This is proven in statistics that the more an individual is educated the lower the percentage of poverty. Showed by the U.S Bureau of Census, 1997,1998: 24.5% that do not have high school diploma are in poverty and those who have a bachelors from college or above are only 3.1% who live in poverty. This is why I think that we should be able to give government aid to lower class for education so that they can be qualified for more jobs, and possibly get out of the lower class if they wish and lower the rates of poverty in our already rich nation.
Issue in our Nation but bigger issue abroad in Africa.
AIDS in Africa
"You get up in the morning and breakfast with your three kids. One is already doomed to die in infancy. Your husband works 200 miles away, comes home twice a year and sleeps around in between. You risk your life in every act of sexual intercourse. You go to work past a house where a teenager lives alone tending young siblings without any source of income. At another house, the wife was branded a whore when she asked her husband to use a condom, beaten silly and thrown into the streets. Over there lies a man desperately sick without access to a doctor or clinic or medicine or food or blankets or even a kind word. At work you eat with colleagues, and every third one is already fatally ill. You whisper about a friend who admitted she had the plague and whose neighbors stoned her to death. Your leisure is occupied by the funerals you attend every Saturday. You go to bed fearing adults your age will not live into their 40s. You and your neighbors and your political and popular leaders act as if nothing is happening."
In several African countries the only way for men to make income for their families is for them to work far from their family in mines. They hardly ever come home to their wives, in African culture polygamy is common, because they have to work so much in the mines. When the men gets sexually involved with a prostitute who infected with HIV/AIDS, he then comes home to his wives and gives the virus to them. If the mother becomes pregnant the child will also be infected. Some children are also orphaned by the virus because all of their parents have died of the virus. Children as young as 12 years old have to fend for themselves and sometimes their younger siblings. At this age they are not really trained to do anything so it is hard for them to find a job or make food.
Most of this information I got from an article from TIME online: TIME magazine: Death Stalks a Continent