Rashid Ali
11-17-2011
The language of human rights is a gift we have endowed as humans which enables us to fight for justice whether it's violent or non-violent. He who is passively taking the oppression is as much guilty as his oppressor. Not standing up and speaking or fighting for injustice being done to one, makes him weaker and his oppressor stronger. The way I have illustrated this in my project is how in the name of justice, democracy or any other name, the rich takes advantage of the poor, using his cunning abilities to beguile the poor simply by bribing him with temporary comfort and luxury, but long term loss. Often setting them against each other, as we have seen in history, races clashing between a society not knowing who sparked the fire. One element that grounds and informs my idea of the language and human rights from Law and Human Rights class is Knowing what rights do we have as humans and as American citizens. These rights can be defined as constituonal rights or natural born inalienable rights which are not given to us by other humans therefore can't be taken away or abused by another human but our Creator who has bestowed us with these rights. Another element that grounds and informs my idea of the language of human rights from our class Introduction to Language is how language originated, and what's the role of language in our lives. Language is what seperates us humans from animals, enables us to thing abstract, beyond this world that there is Someone who is watching us. How we are using language to associate with each other. Knowing several languages allows us to express ourselves differently carrying the same message encrypted in a form of language. Last but not least our most favorite Composition class which supplied us with an essential tool of writing that makes a theory a possible reality. Learning about famous figures like Martin Luther King and Ida B. Wells is to show us what we, students the future of America, can do to contribute, participate and take an action in order to stop the mob rule, dictatorship, and fix the so-called Capital system and in the name of democracy crimes against human nature commited by not the poor class, but the high class who's goal it is to divide and rule. We are also learning how to use our voice and pens through a non-violent practice in order to fix the system and create a peaceful society and a world where justice for all is served.
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