I witnessed prejudice, intentional microggression and bias on the local news, when an openly gay guy was beat up in public because of his sexual orientation. The guy was coming out of a store and four guys jumped him. It was in the early afternoon and people were outside witnessing the violent attack (WSBTV.com, 2012). This incident diminished equity by separating and treating individuals or a group of people that have different sexual orientation unfairly. This incident was injustice and a demonstration of prejudice. This incident made me feel sad because no one should have to be a target of any form of prejudice or discrimination because they are not considered as normal in society. The first thing that came to my mind is that, the victim could have been my family member or child. The law in the state of Georgia is to protect people from this type of behavior; this type of behavior is considered as hate crime and a felony (Bagby, 2012). I believe that the state laws and more rights need to be implemented to help protect people of the LGBT community. Even with society views of what is normal, LGBT are human too and deserve the same respect and justice as anyone else.
Bagby, D. (2012, May 30). LGBT inclusive hate crimes bill introduced on last day of Ga. legislative session. Retrieved from http://www.thegavoice.com/news/georgia-news/4392-lgbt-inclusive-gate-crimes-bill-introduced-on-last-day-of-ga-legislative-session
WSBTV.com. (2012). Grand Jury indicts 4th man in videotaped beating of gay man. Retrieved from http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/grand-jury-indicts-4th-man-videotaped-beating-gay-/nLKN9/
Tammie, you are right that is not how gay people should be treated. Althugh I do not agree with homosexuality, gays are still people and should be treated as such. They should be shown the respect as a perosn and they should not have to fear their lives because of what others do not understand.
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ReplyDeleteViolence seems to the first thing that people turn to. Just because someone doesn't agree with how someone else is living, why does that seem to give people the impression they can just do what they want? I also don't understand the people that just standby and watch and videotape these types of beatings. It is a sad sad world that our children are growing up in, and I just hope with many of us trying to teach our children right, we can make some sort of small change.
Shannon