The article, “Fight the Tower”, points out how life introduces people to various challenges such as illnesses, injustices and harassment. Different illnesses send human beings to hospital beds and while admitted, different thoughts come into their mind. Family, especially children become most affected. During admission period, children may miss their routine activities like playing and bonding moments while admitted parents wonder how they would be connected as usual. Moreover, a shed of misfortune is in the article, outlining how women of color were harassed, faced injustice, bullied, dismissed and traumatized in learning institutions. These happened in underrepresented and marginalized groups. This article indicates how individuals faced torture; just like what happened in pepper spray action.
The lessons concerning discrimination included favoritism based on race, ethnicity, gender, culture, class, race and disability. Valverde (2013) points how women of color were never safe in the presence of dominant cultures. Discrimination was based on the reason that women of color thought of dominant cultures to have more power. It would be better if they understood that they have capabilities to control and take positions in small and greater learning institutions. Dominant cultures should not be the barriers to progress that women take. Pepper spray action discriminated people of color while favoring dominant groups. It is also clear that racism, sexism and classism take control of universities in today’s society. Some of the issues addressed in the article include discrimination and bias as was in Pepper spray. The media was accused of bias, as it happened before during the era when racism was in full force. Facts were misstated to paint a good picture of the officers and protesters, together with journalists. In the pepper spray, it was even worse as the University and the Chancellor worked to hide images from online sites, at a cost of almost 175000 dollars. Such shows a connection between the past and current, indicating similar character, but different victims.
Figure 1. Image showing the police using pepper spray to disperse protesters in 2011 (Wilkinson, 2016).
Reference
Valverde, K. L. C. (2013). Fight the Tower: A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia. Seattle J. Soc. Just., 12, 367.
Wilkinson, J. (April 14, 2016).UC Davis paid AT LEAST $175,000 to hide references to infamous 2011 'pepper-spray incident' from Google searches. Retrieved from: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3540299/UC-Davis-chancellor-Lind-Katehi-fire-taxpayer-funded-uni-paid-175-000-hide-references-infamous-2011-pepper-spray-incident-Google-searches-university.html
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