Social Justice Event: Rwandan Genocide

For my social justice event, I watched the movie Hotel Rwanda, directed Terry George, that starred Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, and Nick Nolte. The movie is about the Rwandan Genocide, and details the majority group, the Hutus, going after the minority group, the Tutsi. What was interesting was how this relates to how immigrants are being an example of a minority group and are being marginalized against. I'm not saying that I agree with illegal immigrants being allowed to stay here without going through the process of becoming a citizen, but that doesn't change the fact that it is happening.  

The article "All Lives Matters" pretty much counters the who idea of kicking immigrants out, with the main idea of it being that all lives really do matter, and also that we shouldn't look down at others just because they are a minority, unlike what the Hutu did to the Tutsi. 

McIntosh argues the idea that the "black lives are not being respected in our community." This is a similar situation with immigrants, with Republicans wanting all illegals to be deported back to their own country. 

Johnson liked to focus on the terms power, privilege and difference. Specifically looking at power, majority groups seem to have much more power in the world. The Hutus had so much power that they were able to kill off a majority of the Tutsi. 

https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/individuals-and-society/discrimination/a/examples-of-discrimination-in-society-today
https://www.simplypsychology.org/prejudice.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/islamophobia-anti-muslim-prejudice-definition-discrimination-government-prevent-dominic-grieve-a7820486.html