The Realities of oppression

                Hill Collins states many important notes in his reading that caught my attention and had me thinking about if it’s really true.  In surveys, many categories are analyzed in different ways but are not classified the proper way. Therefore the results are not really clear to whom they belong to. Now, we must analyze how individual groups are clumped as one large group and are just simply classified as a whole.  Basing it on Hill Collins article, we as individuals must start by reshaping each group out there by looking at the individual issues that each has. Not everyone has the same experiences as the person issues therefore we have a hard time understanding how their oppression was to ours. We only use partial part of our reasoning since not everyone is the same. In my opinion, it is very difficult to do such a thing but it’s not impossible. We must first join as a group to reshape the issues surrounding the individual over a large group as Collins states in his reading.  He states, “We must shift our discourse away from additive analyses of oppression” and this is very true. We are adding to oppression when we base the individual as a group since that causes a greater oppression. It doesn’t lessen it.  Oppression is one of the most contradictory issues we have out there.  Our analyses of oppression that most of us use are based on a group but not the individual.  For example, we see a poor person on the streets and we automatically blame them either  for their drug or alcohol use without really analyzing what lead the person in that situation. This goes hand in hand with the oppression issue. We as individual need to stop and think about what is the real reason that person lead to oppression of being homeless.