It's No Secret That The World Isn't Perfect (Post 5- Modern Sad Stuffs)

     A few weeks ago, Paris was attacked by terrorists, killing over 100 people. A repercussion of this attack is the increase in the already moderately high oppression of innocent Muslims. Literally a bit after a day within the attacks France bombed parts of Syria in an attempt to destroy an ISIS location, but instead killing many innocent civilians. Such actions are not new. In the U.S, we have all heard of the events of 9/11; that event triggered a social decline in the acceptance of the Muslim people. The U.S has also been bombing Islamic countries to get back at terrorist groups, a lot of the time unsuccessfully as 'the war on terror' continues.
     In the presidential debates that have been going on recently, the candidate Canada has been waiting for (since face it, if he gets elected we are all going there), Donald Trump* called out the Muslim people for being a "problem." On top of that, he straight out shows his planned oppression of Syrians if he gets elected. According to an article from the Daily Mail News in the UK, Donald Trump has said that "any Syrian refugees who decided to come to America having fled the violence will be deported," that is, if he became president. Trump claims that the refugees "...could be ISIS, I don't know. This could be one of the greatest tactical ploys of all time. A 200,00-man army, maybe."  Now I may not be the brightest, but this sounds a lot like oppression to me.
    Trump is not the only one guilty of oppressing Muslims in the country. Ever since the 9/11 attacks, more and more people have gone on the oppression bandwagon. Due to ISIS' continuous horrible activity, it doesn't look like it's going to get better for the innocent Muslims for a while. This oppression is quite similar to that of blacks in TKAM but without segregation and terrorists.
     For example, we all knew Tom Robinson was innocent, but he was convicted out of racist and expressionist beliefs. Whereas a recent story in the news saw a teacher calling 911 on an Islamic kid who brought a homemade clock she believed to be a bomb. The similarity between the two? The teacher just assumed that because the kid was Middle eastern and Muslim that the clock he made was a bomb (basically stating that the kid was a terrorist) which is not only racist but shows a piece of modern oppression. In Robinson's case, racism and oppression by the jury against blacks also made their decision bias and convicted an innocent man of rape. Thus oppression and racism was shown in both cases and made both the teacher and jury make bad calls against innocent people.
    What I can't really seem to understand is that so many people in the world say "this is bad, unjust, and needs to be changed!" yet nothing like racism or oppression gets truly changed, just shifted to a new people. For instance, majority of the people in the United States are what the Islamic people called "Dhimmi" aka people of the book (people who follow the bible) and all of those religions preach some form of "love thy neighbor as yourself." Yet, no one seems to follow that as it was supposed to be followed. As someone who doesn't actively participate in religion, I ask why is that? I mean yeah there's the separation of church and state but that 'love thy neighbor' is VERY reminiscent of the "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" from the Declaration of Independence.

  

  In essence, the world today still has oppression and racism similar to that of To Kill a Mockingbird's, just in a different form. While segregation has been dealt with, there is still racism and oppression against blacks and in recent years Muslims shown in the news a lot lately. Heck, sexism is still a prominent thing with oppression against women, but thankfully not nearly as much as there was from Mockingbird's time. Though the world seems to be improving, even if it's just every so slightly. Sad thing is, the "big important adult world" that's almost completely full of itself is only able to take baby steps when it comes to owning up to and fixing your mistakes/problems. This just means that it's going to take a lot longer than ourselves and our founding fathers hoped it would to get rid of racism, oppression, and sexism. 

    Though our generation can fix that. We can hopefully fix these problems ourselves in the future. Or at least make the world take normal steps towards fixing the problem. After all, it starts with us. 

                                                                       
                                                                            -TP
 

* I do not support Trump at all on anything nor will I


                                                                        Sources:
War On Terror article- http://www.globalissues.org/issue/245/war-on-terror 
Trump deportees- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3255742/I-m-putting-notice-Trump-pledges-deport-Syrian-refugees-elected-saying-ISIS-fighters.html
CNN on the clock thingy- http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/
LTN-  http://newsite.karenhousecw.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/love-thy-neighbor1.jpg
Preamble- https://pearlsofprofundity.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/preamble-123-declaration-of-indep.jpg
Political Cartoon- http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/55/62/556234d9f2a1cccb73c8798aade39533.jpg?itok=qIX6BYtl