Yingjun Huang
Week 9
After reading Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans by Soya Jung, I feel strongly agree with her that Ferguson shouldn’t be consider isolated as a murder of black people and has nothing to do with other minorities such as Asian American or Latino American or more. Her article reminds me of the famous quoting by Martin Niemöller: “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Socialist. …. Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me.” I’m not comparing white supremacy to Nazi (I don’t think I have known enough things to do so), but the same situation here is that we must stand together to fight racism, to fight supremacy. If we don’t speak up and fight, we would’ve been (and we are) rolling in the fire.
The role of Asian Americans as she mentioned, has always been invisible and neglected. Whenever I recall Asian Americans on news it would be either of model minority or meritocracy. Asian deaths are ignored and identities are denied. And black rage is like a scene of the fire that reminds us that the war we are in, the fight for our rights is still going on.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnMlvy4qv4M)
(This is a recording of Sandeep Singh, who was run over and dragged 30ft by a white man shouting, “Go back to your own country, Bin Laden!”)I feel sad for this man. He may be looked like that notorious terrorist, but that doesn’t mean him worth being hated and brutally dragged 30ft by a car.
Question:
It’s rather easy to say, “come together”. How do we bring people together?
References:
1. Soya Jung.(2014) Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans from https://www.racefiles.com/2014/08/20/why-ferguson-matters-to-asian-americans/. Retrieved November 19th, 2017
2. Sandeep Singh - NY Sikh Father Survives Brutal Hate Attack [Voice recording]. (Aug 2014) Retrieved November 19th, 2017 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnMlvy4qv4M
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