Answer the following questions in paragraph form on your Canvas reflection assignment. Look over your work, and be thorough. You do not have to copy the questions, but you need to set your paragraphs up so anyone reading your blog will know what the question was (TASTE method).
- What jobs have you had in Mock Trial? What has been good about them? What has been challenging about them? Explain.
- Do you think you'd ever be interested in a career in the field of Law? Why or why not?
- What questions do you still have about how our Legal system works?
- Watch the following TED talk. Start at 5:30. After watching the TED talk, reflect on what it made you think about concerning the topics of injustice, fairness, punishment, and equality. Write a comment on this blog post including some of your thoughts.
After watching this ted talk it disgusts me that children can be sentenced to life without parole. It disgusts me. Another that makes me get so mad inside is the fact of how bias court systems can be when it comes to a person with black skin, and a person with white skin. People think that black and white people are opposites and it is simply not true. I have friends that are a different race than me. Are we enemys? No. We don't have to be opposites. We don't have to be enemys. It disgusts me that people don't realize it.
ReplyDeleteWhen he said 34% of Alabama black males can not vote any longer I was, shocked.
ReplyDelete"Do people deserve to die for the crimes they committed but do we deserve to kill,"
I agree with this question. Yes if you break a VERY important law by doing something you very well known you shouldn't then possibly a bunch of years in prison. Really the only thing I would sentence somebody to death for is probably murder. The reason is because of the saying,
"It's an eye for an eye,"
If you don't understand what I mean here is the explanation. Let's say you stole something of mine. I find out a month later. I know it was you because you were the last one asking about it. So I would ask for it back, but you deny it. I ask your mom and she says that she has seen it around in your room. I ask if since you took one of my things, that it was only reasonable that I take something of yours until you give me my thing back.
After watching the video, it made me think of how some laws just aren't fair in a majority of people's eyes, and how some people are accused for when they didn't do anything wrong as well. It also made me think of in other places too, where things are different, and maybe harder sometimes.
ReplyDeleteThat cought my atention when he said 34% of Alabama black males can not vote any longer. I can't belive what we have done, I used to think this was a free country for everyone, but know I see the real America.
ReplyDeleteI just was completely shocked when he started talking about how so many people where getting put into jail because of their skin color. Some these laws that are supposed to help all people but I noticed that it is only helping he majority of people and that majority is mostly white people. I am not saying that all white people are bad a lot of white people stand up for racism but a lot of them just sit there and just think what is right for them. So many black people are getting put in jail just because of their color. We are all people just different colors and I think it is stupid that people are treating others unfairly just because of their skin color. There are so many black people who have fought just to have a home and these racist politics are just making it thousands of times worse. I think that everyone (including the richer people or people with more power) should all be treated fairly. I 100% agree with him.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is crazy and unfair that 34% of black males in Alabama are in jail. I agree that all people should be treated the same way no matter their skin color. It made me mad that the officer was offended that the janitor was in the court room.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised when he said that 34% of black males in Alabama can't vote anymore. I was also surprised to hear that they have been put in jail for their skin color. I thought this kind of stuff was over but no. If you put someone in jail for murder or stealing that is fair but if you put someone in jail because they have different skin that isn't fair. America still needs to work on equality and fairness because it looks like they haven't done that.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised when he said there was only in the hundred thousands of people in jail and now we have over 1 million of people in jail.And one and three different colored people are in jail or something close to that. A lot of people said the 34% People can't vote but that's only because I have a criminal record and I get that but at least give them the right to vote.
ReplyDeleteIts sad how kids dont get trials, the just lay a piece of evidence down and assume who dose it. They can be sentenced to life without parol! thats messed up
ReplyDeleteThe people o color are more likely to go to jail that whites. Kids thirteen and older people get get killed from there crimes, in my opinion that is really, really unfair to die from a crime.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching this TED Talk, it makes me sick thinking about the favoritism in our criminal justice system. They favorite rich, white people and give them better treatment, sometimes even ruling them not guilty even though they very obviously are. The death penalty shouldn't exist, because that's absolutely an overreaction. Why would you kill someone, for example, for killing another person? Isn't that just continuing the problem? Not to mention that 13 year olds are sentenced to prison and left to rot there because the judge certified them as an adult. They had an entire life ahead of them, they're just kids, yet they're sent to prison for crimes they committed when their brains aren't even fully developed. The unfairness in the court system and even in society should be addressed and talked about.
ReplyDeleteI think that we need to change how we are judged. I think there should be no death penalty. No kids should be sentensed to life without poroll
ReplyDeleteIt is sad that kids have to go to jail without parol
ReplyDeleteIt was shocking when I found out how unfair our world is. It's crazy how sometimes people put people in jail even if they're innocent just because of their skin color. Many people are innocent but get put in jail. It doesn't make sense why people put teenagers in jail. People also dying just because of a crime is unfair, a crime does not make a reason to kill someone.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we should have a death penalty, sometimes the innocent with be in jail. People should be punished for what they do but not death. I believe that people can change.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised that 33% of black people are in jail of probation etc. on the other hand if you are a black on trial for murder you are 22% more likely to die on death row. also 7 million people are in jail, probation etc.
ReplyDeleteWhen you really hear the facts about todays society, it scares me. What I was a black man on trial for murder and I was innocent, would I be judged based on the color of my skin? Or my what my family was like. It's not fair that young kids get dragged in to this dangerous war, when your young you don't know whats good from bad, you believe what your parents say. I don't know how I feel anymore about are Justice System. I'm left in utter shock about racial uneaquality.
ReplyDeleteI was in a lot of shock when I found out 34% of the black male population in Alabama had permanently lost the right to vote. I also thought it was crazy that the United states was the only place that sentenced 13 year olds to die in prison wit out defending there case. If only one of nine people are innocent we should probably be doing more research before we just throw people in jail.I think we need to think about America and make sure we are really treating everyone equally.
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