1) Is equality before the law enough to guarantee racial equality? Why or why not?
In the contemporary society, we are promised that everyone, no matter what their gender, race, or religion are, share the same rights in front of the law; nevertheless this is a false statement that failed to recognize the complexity of formulation and the implementation processes of the law as well as the interests that the law-makers lie upon by the law that they made. I am going to draw arguments from Mills, Fanon, and Okin who talked about institutional supremacy and revealed the intrinsic nature of the institutions and law. Meanwhile, I am going to use Locke’s points as my counterargument to start the passage as Locke highly speak the importance of …show more content…
Under this structured and highly coercive rule that based on institutional supremacy, people have a hard time seeking for help when they encounter difficulty in their life. For states have already blocked the tunnel , or have framed their problems to something less important. Fanon in his book the wretched of the earth describes a series of unfair circumstances for people living under the structured supremacy in the colony. He states that when the native is tortured, and his wife is killed or raped, nobody could he complain to, though there are commissions that set up for them to appeal, it means nothing to colonized people. From this scenario, we are able to see that though there are laws, or formal institution that set up specifically to protect their rights and listen to their sorrows, nonetheless without real implementation, people can never expect any equality stands in their …show more content…
She accused the false use of gender-neutral language of contemporary political theory. She said western political thoughts use gender neutral language but intentionally excluded Women outside of the topic. Same situation applies here in the United States. When our founding father drafted the constitution law, they intended to only included white male as the subject of it but used a general language in it. It is pretty obvious that the state failed to recognize women and African American’s rights at that time since the constitution failed to acknowledge women’s voting rights and regard African American slaves only counted as three-fifths of other person.
Meanwhile, Okin states that the legal sanctions that uphold male dominance have begun to be eroded in the nearly past 20 years, but the tradition is still remain observable.
In conclusion, law, as an inseparable part of the civil society can function as a methods of protection when people are seeking for equality and justice; nevertheless it failed to fulfill its promises of guarantee racial equality of all forms of equalities in general before the law since the law is still the product under the deeply entrenched institutional supremacy in
In the contemporary society, we are promised that everyone, no matter what their gender, race, or religion are, share the same rights in front of the law; nevertheless this is a false statement that failed to recognize the complexity of formulation and the implementation processes of the law as well as the interests that the law-makers lie upon by the law that they made. I am going to draw arguments from Mills, Fanon, and Okin who talked about institutional supremacy and revealed the intrinsic nature of the institutions and law. Meanwhile, I am going to use Locke’s points as my counterargument to start the passage as Locke highly speak the importance of …show more content…
Under this structured and highly coercive rule that based on institutional supremacy, people have a hard time seeking for help when they encounter difficulty in their life. For states have already blocked the tunnel , or have framed their problems to something less important. Fanon in his book the wretched of the earth describes a series of unfair circumstances for people living under the structured supremacy in the colony. He states that when the native is tortured, and his wife is killed or raped, nobody could he complain to, though there are commissions that set up for them to appeal, it means nothing to colonized people. From this scenario, we are able to see that though there are laws, or formal institution that set up specifically to protect their rights and listen to their sorrows, nonetheless without real implementation, people can never expect any equality stands in their …show more content…
She accused the false use of gender-neutral language of contemporary political theory. She said western political thoughts use gender neutral language but intentionally excluded Women outside of the topic. Same situation applies here in the United States. When our founding father drafted the constitution law, they intended to only included white male as the subject of it but used a general language in it. It is pretty obvious that the state failed to recognize women and African American’s rights at that time since the constitution failed to acknowledge women’s voting rights and regard African American slaves only counted as three-fifths of other person.
Meanwhile, Okin states that the legal sanctions that uphold male dominance have begun to be eroded in the nearly past 20 years, but the tradition is still remain observable.
In conclusion, law, as an inseparable part of the civil society can function as a methods of protection when people are seeking for equality and justice; nevertheless it failed to fulfill its promises of guarantee racial equality of all forms of equalities in general before the law since the law is still the product under the deeply entrenched institutional supremacy in