How does the art contribute to the fight against social injustices in the United States of America?

« How does the art contribute to the fight against social injustices in the United States of America? INTRODUCTION: Justice’s main purpose is to establish equality and to be fair, but unfortunately the justice system is tainted by unfairness, especially in the United States, a very racist country.

That’s the reason why many American citizens fight for a better country, a tolerant country. So how does the art of debate contribute to the fight against social injustices in the United States of America? Firstly, we shall see that it’s by raising awareness about racism and finally by fighting for change and diversity AXE 1: BY RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT RACISM Many people have been raising awareness about racism through art for a long time and that’s why I would like to talk about the second document: this one is a novel written by Harper Lee and named To Kill a Mockingbird.

The story is told through the eyes of Scout, a little girl living in the Deep South during the Great Depression and it deals with how people can be unfair.

The young girl learns many lessons about life throughout the story and the main unfair thing she saw was the case of Tom Robinson, a Black man who was falsely accused of raping a White woman.

This novel shows how much being White was a privilege and the author’s main goal was to denounce unfairness and racism in the society at that time.

She probably wasn’t scared to expose the truth of their inhumanity and hypocrisy and she was maybe judged because of it, because the truth hurts.

This leads me to the next document, the third one, which took place right after the release of the novel I just talked about.

We’re still in a segregated country at that time and that’s why Martin Luther King gave his famous speech I Have a Dream, which is the most iconic speech in American history.

By pronouncing it he raises awareness about racism, especially when he says I quote line 14 to 16 “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” or I quote line 19 to 21 “one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers”. The fact that White and Black people cannot live together peacefully is unbelievable so he obviously had to talk about this major problem that concerned him, his community and his whole country above all. He had faith in God, and the message he wanted to convey was mainly Christian: we’re all the same, there’s no need to make mischief.

Unfortunately, after many years we still have to do the same thing as they all did.

That’s what Ava DuVernay did on the fifth document by releasing a miniseries named When They See Us in 2019.

The series is based on a true story and it deals with five boys who were from 14 to 16 years old when they were arrested for the rape of a White jogger in Central Park.

They were of course falsely accused and it’s crucial to highlight that these boys were Black and Latino because if they were White they probably wouldn’t have been arrested.

It caused a lot of protests at that time and after the release of this mini-series, it questioned the place of racism in the USA, especially in court.

The story of these stolen lives in people’s hearts forever. In fact, the problem of racism still persists today and the sixth document.... »