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herits the widow, and many women face caste system up to a point still divides towards African Americas was exposed
the indignity of becoming a second or society into categories. The main four for the world to see when on August
third wife to the brother in law. He will being: i) Brahmins, the highest-ranking 29th 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the
inherit her and all the late brothers be- high priests, teachers and intellectuals; ii) southeastern United States. Of the ap-
longings. Where is the justice? Kshatriyas, warriors and rulers; iii) proximately 1,800 people who died 93%
Issues of justice and climate change Vaishyas, traders and iv) Shudras, do me- were poor African Americans. They
are interlinked and if properly addressed nial jobs. After the four main castes, couldn’t afford to evacuate like the afflu-
can lead to the eradication of poverty, there is a further subdivision of castes ent whites who suffered less casualties.
social and ecological “justice- into another 2,000. The “untouchables” Pre-Katrina, one in four resents residents
sustenance”. In Zimbabwe, the late Presi- also known as the “Dalits” or “Shudras” of New Orleans lived below the official
dent Mugabe tried to implement a land are totally marginalized. They number poverty line.
redistribution policy. Pre-independence, approximately 160 million people. By This write opens up a dabate about
the White settlers had acquired most of virtue of their birth, they are tainted into the difficulty and complexity of fully en-
the fertile farm lands and some had as a caste system that looks at them as sub gaging in mission and establishing a
many as ten farms. The redistribution human, or impure. They often face hu- “just” world. What is “just” in one com-
policy was fair and had been a post- man right abuses and face discrimination munity is “injustice” in another. But we
independence promise. However, the and violence. In recent years, however, can share God’s saving grace with others
implementation was a failure leading to with the spread of education and urbani- by trying to establish a better world. As
destruction of a once most productive zation, the stigma attached has to a cer- we engage in “mission” we need to be
farming country. The result was the ram- tain amount dissipated. Christ like. He gave us the reason for His
pant deforestation as people burnt trees, Across the United States, Black people coming and examples to live by. “Do unto
and began poaching, air and water pollu- suffer disproportionally in their commu- others as you would like others to do
tion, especially from agricultural and in- nities because of social injustice mainly unto you.”
dustrial runoffs, soil erosion, and land related to poverty and their environ-
denigration. Diamond deposits were dis- ment. As for health, they have some of
covered and there was poor mining prac- the highest cancer rates, suffer more An educator and advocate for gender
tices. These are now some of the envi- from diabetes, low birth rates, alcohol- equity for the last 20 years, Dr. Njuki
has worked with the church, NGOs,
ronmental challenges facing Zimbabwe. ism and are exposed to carsoniges as we the UN, and educational institutions
Therefore climate change mitigation, so- know from the case in Flint Michigan around the world. She also served as
an Assistant General Secretary with
cial justice and ecological goal setting, where a communities was exposed to the Global Ministries of the United
should not be considered in isolation. lead in their drinking water for years. Methodist Church.
Social justice and human rights are Blacks have less access to quality educa-
intrinsic. Human rights and other abuses tion and experience and suffer more
as a result of ones place in society have from unequal employment opportunities
been well chronicled in India where a than the rest of the country. The injustice

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