Week 9 - Elijah Ramirez

Elijah Ramirez

ASA 002 A01

Week 9

In “Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans,” Soya Jung talks about the invisibility of Asian Americans due to the fact of the more “extreme” discrimination of other races, one such group is the African Americans. While Asian Americans don’t come from a history of slavery, or are getting deported, or are targeted because of an ongoing war, there are still tragic events that occur because of their skin color. The discrimination of other races, Blacks, Mexicans, Middle Easterners, are overshadowing the discrimination Asian Americans receive.

I believe that there doesn’t have to be mass killings, slavery, or years of violence against our people for our discrimination to be brought to light. There isn’t just black and white, people must see that there are colors in between as well. The author talks about the targeting of Sikhs by white supremacists and the minimal media coverage it received because they were just Asian Americans. An Asian man was ran over and dragged an entire thirty feet by a white man and no one said anything about it. While we look over at the Ferguson case and it’s a white man shooting a black man. While both cases are equally heinous as racial cases, if we ignore skin color, the brutality of the Sikh case was way higher than the Ferguson case. However, it was swept under the rug because the Ferguson case includes a more important minority and should be covered more than any other discrimination case. Society needs to wake up and get with the program; people preach that everyone is equal, but all the events happening in the world today say otherwise.

Is the scale on the types of disparities there are in the world causing everyone to become insensitive to the disparities Asian Americans face?

References

Jung, Soya. (2014, August 20). “Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans.” Race Files Retrieved November 19, 2017.

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