ASA2 Section A01
10/2/15
Week #2
After reading “Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans,” it
made me realize how little I know of what actually happened. After taking an intermission
from reading, I researched numerous articles, biased or not, about what
happened at the Ferguson shooting. At its very core, regardless of whether or
not the shooting was justified, protesters turned the tragedy into a call to
action, into a social movement. Though many know by now that the media has displayed the negative outbursts of protests,
many of the peaceful protesters were able to spark the flames of activists
across the nation. Many students here have protested against law enforcement’s
excessive use of force via racial bias during protests for Eric Garner
following the Ferguson incident. The article, however, tries to show why Asian
Americans tie into what happened at Ferguson and others like it. I do believe
that “Asian Americans often end up somewhere in the chasm between blackness and
whiteness” and that, aside from being the model minority, crimes against Asian
Americans go unnoticed and without attention. By saying this doesn’t matter,
Asian Americans condone and justify these deaths. So the choice becomes clear: remain silent or stand up for a side on the line.
My question is: Which side of the chasm do we lie on?
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