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Huey defines Social Injustice.

6 Oct

Huey essentially defines social injustice as the oppression or unequal treatment of a populous; using the Lakota Native Americans as an example to thoroughly define how oppressive the American government is. Through the fifteen minutes of depressing examples, he explained their modern existence. He explained the majority of the population is Alcoholic and there is constant domestic abuse in the tribe, which leads to grandparents raising children.

Huey describes the Lakota’s past history in chronological sequence. He said the Lakota Native Americans of Blackfoot Hills, North Dakota, the majority, were killed or pushed out of the area. He showed the audience a map of the U.S., that if the Lakota were treated fairly, would have a reservation the area of Iowa. The Lakota now have a one-hundred mile area to fit their population. The American treated the Lakota’s unfairly and still are receiving little compensation for what they did in the past.

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Tree walk

20 Sep

I set my head on the desk, shut my eyes, and drifted off to ‘la-la land’- the place where dreams come true. I was walking down one of my old neighborhood streets, which in the dream is now abandoned, and continued walking until I got to a cul de sac. There’s a sidewalk that leads from this neighborhood to the public school nearby, which has a soccer field. I walked down this side walk until I got to the soccer fields and past the fields until *WHAM* I hit an old oak tree. City ordinance will not let trees over two hundred years old to be cut down. This tree looks like the tree from Avatar, but is much smaller. Imagine a very large oak tree awkwardly sitting in the middle of a meadow. Multiple soccer goals are about half a mile away, so all there is on this meadow is this oak tree awkwardly sitting in the middle of the meadow. It has no tree friends, just that one tree. Its roots span out for a few feet and it is a very large tree. It rises about two story levels. When you look at the tree it doesn’t look like your generic tree, but an ancient oak tree. It’s massive with large bumps on it, like warts. Scanning the tree you would think it is a hundred or so years old… The tree did not have anything, besides comfort. It was a warm and sunny day in this dream, so I was without sunglasses. The tree did provide shade.

When I went for this walk and meditation, I did not find a doorway. I sat on one of the tree roots and fell asleep.