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Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere: The Social Conversation Mizzou Vs. Paris

November 9, 2015, Missouri University made headline news when a student spoke out on the injustices happening at his school. He announced going on a hunger strike until the institution's president Tim Wolfe was removed. The football team and several students decided to go on strike for the injustices that have been occurring, apparently for several years now. 

The injustices were never corrected according to students which led to several week-long protests, including a hunger strike, first initiated by Jonathan Butler and then others. Tim Wolfe, former president of the University, resigned from his position after recieving backlash for ignoring racial, homophobic and sexual abuse on campus.  He left with his last statement being “My decision to resign comes out of love, not hate. Please, please use this resignation to heal and start talking again.” 

 Whether his last comment was accepted by the students or not, many rallied in excitement over the news they had just received. Their story and excitement was said to be short lived however, when  the alleged terrorist group ISIS executed multiple planned attacks in Paris, France November 13th, killing over 100 people. Both situations deserve just as much as attention than the other, but immediately following the attacks many took to social media  to voice their opinions, creating a rift between the two events (and all events for that matter linked anything close to #BlackLivesMatter). 
Quickly, a word war on racism and oppression dominated the conversation on Twitter. Not only were the comments made extremely ignorant, but disappointing to see how immediately those standing and supporting one cause were ridiculed for their efforts of not fighting for "real" things that matter.

Here are several tweets that ridiculed the efforts made at "Mizzou" University:


The ignorance even went so far as to say that the "whining" students not only attending Missouri University but all that were standing in solidarity with them, were just mad because Paris took their spotlight. History coupled with these bold comments seemingly show that the oppressors for hundreds of years have been the "dominate" race, Caucasian/European. Due to their privilege and seeing themselves as dominate, gives way for one to make the argument who is really being oppressed in either situation.

 Socially, injustices such as the Missouri protest, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamar Rice or Sandra Bland deaths or the wars in Israel or Kenya  are overlooked until almost being forced to deal with on a larger level. Many terrorist groups are indeed results of oppression. Contrary to popular belief, many terrorist groups are not motivated to hate by religion more than they are by politics and aims to not be controlled by the American or European governments. Due to the attacks that have happened in the past, we have been conditioned to assume firsthand that those apart of the Islamic/Muslim religion are responsible. This has caused people in certain areas of the world to fear these people and see them as terrorist, hence the case involving 14 year old, Ahmed Mohamed. 

 Oppression, discrimination and racism is all to see and understand on a worldly view when you're told what to believe and what you shouldn't. We should be able to trend all issues worldwide and hashtag #PrayersForAll and only singling out certain groups on certain occasions. All world issues are important. Blacks, Whites, African, Hispanics, Europeans, Asians, Indians, Middle Eastern people all are equally important.  

 The constant bickering on twitter has resulted in the situation sparking an array of accusations, both non-offensive and offensive to either event. I, on the other hand, have no accusations just questions. In no way giving credit to or taking away from either event. All prayers and condolences to the loved ones, that were affected by the recent events in Paris!

  Do you believe that 100+ deaths in another country can be compared to or should overshadow that of over a million deaths during slavery or better yet the millions of lives that are lost every day  in America due to oppression and police brutality (whom are subsequently tied to the slogan black lives matter)? They shouldn't! Which side do you take, if any? What are your reasons? You tell us.

 View tweets from the conversation below:




The constant bickering on twitter has resulted in the situation sparking an array of accusations, both non-offensive and offensive to either event. I, on the other hand, have no accusations just questions. In no way giving credit to or taking away from either event, do you believe that 100+ deaths in another country can be compared to or should over shadow that of over a million deaths during slavery or better yet the millions of lives that are lost every day  in America due to oppression and police brutality whom are subsequently tied to the slogan black lives matter? Which side do you take, if any? What are your reasons? You tell us.

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