Infuriating Unfairness
Infuriating unfairness. I remember the first time I experienced the feeling of truly infuriating unfairness. I was reading a book titled "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry". It's about a 9 year old Black girl living in Mississippi during the Great Depression. As Cassie comes to learn of and experience the racial prejudice and injustice of that time and place, she is first confused, then angry, then saddened. I too became angry at the immense unfairness caused by the actions of many of the characters. More so because they represented real events, that happened to real people. I was thinking about this because I watched a movie over the weekend that, although fictional and not based on true events like Cassie's situation, also brought a sense of infuriating unfairness. The movie tells the story of a small minority who seek one thing: independence. The right to govern themselves and live how they want to live. To have a home. They fight for this right, again and again, and...