Tunnel of Oppression

Oppression is something that we have all felt sometime in our lives one way or another. However as I stood in what seemed like an endless line to go into the tunnel my thoughts of what this experience was going to be was very dismal. As I finally entered the tunnel my first thought was that it defiantly was not worth the wait, but as I got over those feels I began to try to gain something from the experience.

I tried to think of what I believed being oppressed meant to me and I thought about the holocaust, the blacks being lynched and women being abuse. Yet this understanding of oppression did not do it justice what so ever. There was so much more.

On the surrounding walls of the hall way there was words and phrases written that people like you and me would use that we would never consider oppressive, but that are. As I walked through the tunnel I learned that what one person might think is not oppressive really is very oppressive to someone else.

Although this tunnel was not all that well put together, it got it’s point across in the end. Some people seemed to get emotionally over the walk but I just took it as a learning experience and did not really have much emotion one way or another. All in all I believe something like tunnel of oppression this is a great learning tool for everyone.