The term oppressed people means people that have been treated cruelly or unjust for prolonged periods of time. Systems of oppressions are organized ways of oppressing people. The levels of oppression are the different ways to oppress people, which are institutional oppression, interpersonal oppression, and internalized oppression.
First of all I believe oppressed people experience different systems of oppression because when you are being oppressed you are not just facing one level of oppression, you may be facing multiple. For example there was this lady who accused an African-American teen of street harassing her. She would’ve been experiencing interpersonal oppression from the person doing the harassing and you can also experience internalized oppression because you might start to believe you are always going to be harassed and will never be safe. I recently read a quote from an article that was about a woman a 14 year old African-American being accused of street harassing her, who was later lynched by her brothers,finally after six years shedding some light on what really happened. This is document is a quote from an article on the New York Times Newspaper’s Website. The article is titled “Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False” and it was written by Richard Perez-Peña on January 27, 2017. A quote from this article that supports my answer is “In it, he wrote that she said of her long-ago allegations that Emmett grabbed her and was menacing and sexually crude toward her, “that part is not true.” This supports my answer because this shows how the kid being accused was being faced with institutional oppression because the people who murdered him confessed to killing him and didn’t go to jail for it. He was also experiencing interpersonal oppression because she was lying about him being sexually crude and was killed for it.
In continuation oppressed people are able to experience different systems of oppression because of things like males getting paid more than females which is interpersonal oppression. I analyzed a document that was a comparison of the wages males and females of different races and I learned that males typically earn more money than females. This document was a table chart of the median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by sex, race, and ethnicity, in 2009. A piece of data that supports my answer is how the race that earns the most amount of money, being the Asian’s, the males earn $952 while the females only earn $779. This proves my point because the females are getting paid less, which can make them feel lesser than males, which is hegemony of internalized oppression because they are not doing nothing to change that and at the same time they are experiencing interpersonal oppression because the people in society are behaving a certain way towards males by paying them more, while the females are getting paid less.