The Communicator

Discrimination on the basis of race, sex, and sexual orientation is still a large problem for our campus and the world.  These issues are based on what we were taught as children by our parents, friends and society. These ethics are forgotten when a person wants to believe something that they do not understand or do not wish to understand.

Our society tends to have the mentality that a person’s race determines what part of the social ladder they are on and what kind of jobs a person can have. For example, some are against having Barack Obama as our president based solely on his skin color. Some people cannot understand why President Obama got to where he is today and many don’t wish to.

This ignorance seems to stem from the either the ethics learned from sources or the lessons from our parents that we have chose to forget.

Another relevant issue sexism. Women are still not equal to men in the eyes of popular society as shown by Madison McCord’s male side of the “Gender in Sports” point-counterpoint on the opposite page.  They do not receive equal pay in sports or in the office, promotions, or credit for the same accomplishments as their male counterparts. Women still only make 77 cents per every dollar a man makes, according to 2005 figures.  But society doesn’t want to face this issue and fix it.

Of the many moral considerations in this day and age, sexual orientation is perhaps the most highly debated. The ethics of this debate are discussed in churches, around the water-cooler and in households across the nation.  Many have chosen a side on this debate, whether that be for or against homosexuality in general or where they stand on the same-sex marriage debate. That majority have begun to push their beliefs through the use of legislation.  The thrust of the issue is that a small portion of the homosexual community are having their lives dictated by the majority. 

The only way to face these issues is head-on, without any forgotten ethics and with the will to empathize with all on campus and in the world.

You can contact the writer at staffwriter@spokanefalls.edu