Stevenson defines social justice as the opposite of poverty. He says this because our justice system treats people better if they are rich and guilty then if they poor and innocent. When people are unable to pay for an attorney one may be appointed to them, but the quality is far less than deserved and the attorney may have a hard time connecting to the client when they may or may not be really paying them and they also have a mass variety of other cases to tend to. That alone is injustice because where is the equality in that and who is to say that one client deserves better care simply because of the background or family history. Many people do not recognize this as injustice because we become so comfortable with where we are “why should we do anything about it?” To emphasis his point even further, we in America are the only people that are willing to sentence thirteen year olds to prison for the rest of their life. Also, Germans refuse to have the death penalty because of everything that happened in the Holocaust. He talks about the injustice in the ratios of who receives the death penalty, say if the victim is white versus black it is 11 times more likely to happen and if the defendant is black over white it is 22 times more likely to happen. There is so much injustice in this, and is racial inequality leading to injustice. He opened my eyes with a very informative video of all the injustice sadly in our judicial system.
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