Expo Oppression Journal

    Prescriptions that are commonly heard are, “Ima beat that him so hard that the he wouldn’t be able to catch his breathe”. Another prescription is , “Oakland is a very violent place, don’t live there you might get beat up, robbed, or killed”. But actually Oakland is not that violent, it’s just the ghetto, some part of Oakland that is violent. Everybody there are all humans, we’re not animals we’re just like you, we won’t bite. It just depends if you did something wrong, if you’re in the wrong place or if you’re wearing the wrong color. The system of violence is oppressive because people get hurt in any kinds of forms as I had said earlier. Violence restricts people’s lives because they might have 6 more years, a day, 6 weeks or hours to live because they might be caught up in violence.