Injustice And The Freedom Center

Advocacy Project The world has endured many centuries of injustice and the Freedom center has enlightened us on that. Injustice effects many groups of people, it has no certain race, ethnicity, or gender, and it effects people from all parts of the world. From The Holocaust to the Underground Railroad, and to human trafficking people over the years had to overcome racism, sexism, and genocide. While all these are bad things that have occurred, they are a part of the past and all we can do is to learn from them. Certain countries and officials of the government exercised there gift of freedom in the wrong way, which in turn affected the lives of many. The Freedom Center helped to inspire us to help change the world for the better. To begin, the Freedom Center helped to open on our eyes on …show more content…
They did absolutely nothing wrong, but were still put into camps and torn from their families. Families were split apart and if a person was not physically fit to work they were killed. The people living in the concentration camps lived in disgusting conditions and had hardly any food to eat, and the food they were given eat was worse than food that would be fed to animal. Next, we visited the Underground Railroad exhibit, where African Americans were forced to be put into slavery. These African Americans did not have the rights they deserved to have. Worried their families would be sold into different areas they had to escape along secrete passageways just to get to freedom. Sometimes they would be caught by slave catchers and they would have to experience brutal punishment. Slaves were considered expensive property, it was crucial to get them back or else the slave owners would lose thousands of dollars. While the Underground Railroad and Holocaust were terrible experiences for people that were a part of it, they were made possible by people who badly used their gift of freedom. This relates to Theology because we