INJUSTICE IN OUR CREATED WORLDS

By Abraham Favour Olohigbe

 

 

Have you ever felt the need to scream and shout at the top of your lungs due to pressure? Or felt that the world wasn’t fair to women, or just generally to all people?

 

Well, the troubling news everywhere these days deeply concerns me; injustice cries out from every crack in the walls of our world. Our world is divided in all sorts of ways, with everyone living in bubbles they have created for themselves. So, when I say "world," it might seem shallow because everyone lives in different worlds, each one a division within another.

 

Men themselves fracture our system and assign labels; we have the rich, the middle class, the poor, and more. It's a world shared and divided by invisible barriers. India has a caste system that prohibits intermarriage; Korea has a social hierarchy, less rigid than India's, yet these divisions span continents in various forms.

 

These divisions, worlds, or castes foster injustice. Men, women, and children endure inhumane treatment; some worlds allow perpetrators to evade justice while others suffer. Acts like paedophilia, theft, murder, and organ harvesting benefit some worlds while others endure suffering. Few manage to break through these barriers to fight for their worlds, but often they too are overwhelmed. If not killed, they must conform to the status quo.

 

To stop this, movements spanning generations have emerged. Many of these movements, recognizing a pattern, resort to violence because peaceful protests do not move oppressors. I've learned that when some worlds are pushed to the wall, they fight fiercely for justice and equality.

 

These pervasive divisions and injustices in our world demand our attention and action. From India's rigid caste systems to Korea's subtle social hierarchies and beyond, these structures perpetuate inequality and suffering. Would it be too idealistic to foster solidarity across all worlds and dismantle the invisible barriers that keep us apart?