On Wednesday, we had a Symposium and I was Jean Paul Sartre and/or Fanon. Sartre and Fanon are both existentialists. One of Sartre's beliefs is bad faith which is lying to yourself. They both present many examples of bad faith or how people look at themselves as on a object. I realized that Fanon and Marx had similar definitions of alienation.
We also connected the symposium to what's going on in Ferguson Missouri. It is where a police officer murdered the UNARMED black teen. There has been many protest going on throughout the world since this first happened. The grand jury is supposed to read the results any day and many cities, including Memphis, are preparing for the protests. In my opinion, people should not be arrested or punished for peacefully protesting but there have been many arrests anyway. It's like the government wants people to react violently. Do you believe the officer should be charged with murder? If so/ not, why or why not? Was it morally right or wrong for the officer to murder the teen? Another question is should the protesters be arrested or punished if there are doing it peacefully?
Here are some links about what's going on.
http://news.yahoo.com/ferguson-braces-finding-shooting-unarmed-black-teen-044312927.html
http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/story/27407428/missouri-governor-activates-national-guard-in-ferguson-as-grand-jury-decision-nears
I agree that the government is making protestors out to be violent, which in my opinion that is not the case. We have the right to express our freedom of speech, if they arrest protestors, the police force are not letting citizens fulfill their rights. In my opinion, based on the facts and news reports, I believe the police who shot Michael Brown, should indeed be charged with murder. The suspect did not have a weapon of any type, during the shooting. He was suspected to have robbed a local one-stop shop. Investigators say that the person they were looking for wasn't Mike Brown. The police officer's life wasn't placed in any danger during that time of the shooting, and even if he was he could have aimed at Mike Brown's legs and shot a couple of times in order to get the situation under control. The biggest point of this entire case is that Mike Brown placed his hands ABOVE his head, meaning he had no weapon. The officer in my opinion took it too far. He shouldn't have shot him that many times. ESPECIALLY, due to the face that he was UNARMED. In this case, the officer was morally wrong for the murder of Michael Brown. It's really sad that history continues to repeat itself, when it comes to White People killing, unarmed Black teenage men and women. Hopefully the jury, will convict the police officer, that way justice is served, especially for Mike Brown's family.
ReplyDeleteWell, first we must look at the overall picture of the situation. Was the officer shooting in self defense? If so, then it is according to the law that he should not be charged with murder. The law states that if you kill somebody in self defense then you are convicted with murder. If he was, then he should be charged with murder. This whole problem has been going for so many years that it just gets tiring. Yes the kid had no weapon but in a world today, you never know that maybe that kid had a weapon. In my, opinion it is morally bad because the situation could of been handled in a more peaceful way with out anybody dying. On the other point, the protestors should not be arrested because it is in our rights to protest peacefully without violence and it is morally wrong that the state already sees the group as violent.
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