Kareem Jabbar Injustice

The world today has become a place filled with racism, injustice, and discrimination. In a venal world like this, a person, such as Kareem Abdul Jabbar, is needed in order to push the world in the right direction. In “Writings on the Wall”, Jabbar strives to push the world, America in this case, to a unified country with no prejudice and he hopes to “ shine a flashlight on the path back to the Age of Reason and the ideals of U.S. Constitution” (12). Abdul uses specific tones, statistics, and exemplifications in order to support his argument of how America is a fractured, discriminating society.

Jabbar writes with a disapproving and disappointed tone throughout the book- not a trace of optimism. But it’s to be expected when America is …show more content…
Jabbar writes about the time when the U.S. “turned away a ship carrying more than 900 German Jews”, which resulted in “254 of the passengers [dead] in the Holocaust because [the U.S. didn’t take them” (22). He stresses the fact that if American politicians weren’t so selfish- if the 900 people were taken in, then there would be 254 more people given a chance at life. Another argument he makes is that the American government is not only selfish in creating fear to benefit themselves- it’s just selfish in general. Politicians only work to benefit the wealthy because the wealthy benefits them. “The poor don’t cast ballots as often as those with higher income” (147), which explains how “$2.9 trillion was cut in health-care reduction for low- and moderate-income people; $125 billion was cut from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs” (147). These statistics should frighten Americans, but the current attitude is that the poor should be ignored instead of actually working to cure poverty, all because they don’t provide the votes the politicians only care about. Abdul-Jabbar argues how Americans should fight to tear away from the corrupt government that is manipulating the society with political absurdity and prejudice, which is not the society that Americans should be living

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