The Supreme Court’s examination of the legality of affirmative action serves the same purpose as Toni Morrison passionately declares of racism: it is “a distraction.” Rather than focusing on dismantling the system of racism, we are fiddling with the band-aid we’ve placed over the bullet hole.

As we walked through the lobby, my friend passed her hand through a black plastic slot in a strange-looking machine, and the student worker at the front desk nodded her through while I waited for my OneCard to be swiped.

From ASAP Rocky being featured on Fenty Beauty’s skincare line to Machine Gun Kelly’s all-inclusive nail polish brand, in recent years there has been a surge in the number of men endorsing products that have been historically doted as “female.”

Currently, the general population of public middle and high schools offers the availability of 1-3 counselors dependent on the ratio of the school. But, with middle schools typically housing 600+ students, and studies finding that 20% are dealing with undiagnosed mental health issues, that seems like a highly inadequate resource.

This means every action has either a positive, negative, or neutral impact on the world. Something as mundane as what you choose to pour over your cereal in the morning becomes an ethical choice with real-world ramifications.

Ethical Queries Surrounding the Agricultural Sector

It is morally questionable at best to even suggest that the occupied population is overall better off from the continued presence of its colonizer. It is beyond the scope of this article, and very well documented in other analyses, why the violation of sovereignty, cultural erasure, and imposed governance, among countless other factors, illustrate the ethical abhorrence of colonialism.

The UNC administration has a nasty habit of implying student concurrence in their decision-making when students simply don’t agree with them. As a member of the UNC Undergraduate Senate, I qualify as one of these so-called student leaders, and my peers and I have recognized a pattern.

From W.E.B. DuBois’ “double-consciousness” (2) to Nipsey Hussle’s “survival mode” (3), cognitive dissonance has always been a prerequisite of Blackness in America. However, perhaps these continuous attempts to name the internal conflict of Black individual desires versus external realities have been hinting at the novel term, moral injury.

Because emotional labor ascribes to systemic order, it must also follow patriarchal rules, making it distinctly gendered.

We have been dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic for almost two years now, and there is no foreseeable change in the near immediate future. All of our lives have been tremendously impacted and changed throughout multiple spheres of our public and private lives.

Researchers should be taking more initiatives to create proper tools and enabling doctors to diagnose ADHD in both genders at young ages so that there can be proper treatment. If we continue to ignore the signs of developing ADHD in young girls, we are failing them in giving them the best possible chances for success in their futures.

The labels that we use to describe people with exceptionalities are often inappropriate; however, by discussing these labels we can educate ourselves on what is appropriate and least harmful to those around us.

When the education and the scientific journals that the general public receives/read are largely based on a perspective that excludes a myriad of others, the knowledge we gain has an inherent bias. If anything, it detracts from the wholesome truth of the knowledge itself. If we exclude other perspectives on a subject, how much of the truth are we really receiving?

It can be valuable to be more careful with our dollars and strive to maximize their impact, but I will provide a personal example of how this movement created a conflict about the decisions I should make in my own life with my own time.

Combative sports do not promote violence insofar as the rules are written. Just as in any contact sport, the air of competition is filtered to be thin with malice but rich with struggle. However, outside of the rules as written, competitors in combative sports can promote violence through immoral traits and actions.

While Asian Americans, through this myth, are framed positively, the classification as the model minority also contributes to the reduction of Asian American people’s lived experiences to fit into the narrative of the myth and adds social and internal pressures to fulfill the associated expectations.