Ferguson Analysis

ASA 2 Section A02

Nick Gagliani

October 2, 2015

Blog 2

In the article, “Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans”, there is fear and anger in the words of author Soya Jung. She not only brings up the sorrowing loss of African Americans from police brutality in the United States, but also draws a disturbing comparison between the United States systematic treatment of African Americans, and the treatment of Asian peoples in the past. She points out that like the enslavement of African Americans and the struggle by the system to make the collective group of African Americans second-class citizens, Asian peoples have also been victims of occupation and threatening acts by foreign entities. To many informed Asian Americans, like Soya Jung, these similarities are horrifying especially during a time of social unrest in the United States. As she states at the end of her paper, “Asian Americans often end up somewhere in the chasm between blackness and whiteness”, she shows her worry and distrust for the treatment of her people, a worry that all people of color may have to endure.

As there is many informed and well educated Asian Americans in this class, does anyone else have the same fears and connect the same dots that Soya Jung does?