Lele Bian A04 --- Week 5

Shannon Deloso's “Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students’ Negotiating Power in Academia” reminds me of the pepper spray happened in UC Davis, when Deloso says that some student activists get too far out of control, many campuses have histories of involving and sometimes overusing physical force through the police. I personally believe protesting is a very efficient tool to arouse people, who are in the same condition, to speak up for themselves and an effective way to tell the associated agencies about their thinking; I am not saying that protesting is not good, but I think it is a not effective way to get the problems to be solved. Recently,  many hotels had been leased to Los Angeles County to house homeless people at high risk for the coronavirus; this is a really kindful move, but for the people who live around the sheltered area would not really want this happen. This is when the protest began. Neighborhood groups have come out in opposition when word of a lease has spread. In the city of Laguna Woods,  protesters from a gated Orange County retirement community successfully shot down a plan to house homeless residents in a nearby hotel. Also, Laguna Hills sued to try to block county officials from signing a contract with a hotel to house at-risk homeless residents, which is being rejected later; and the court also ruled that the contract should go forward during the state of emergency declared for the coronavirus. Given these two cases, I am trying to say that protest is a tool to let the officials hear your words, but it's still up to them to decide if they want to hear it or not. 

Protesting in Orange County

Therefore, my question is that the protesting of equal rights for Asian Americans has been there for a long time, and everyone knows that Asian Americans are treated differently, but officials and leaders all seem to be indifferent to these movements. Should Asian Americans change a way to speak for their rights, and how they can let people do something to solve this injustice? 

Reference:

“'We Aren't the Dumping Ground': Homeless People Fleeing Coronavirus Meet NIMBY Resistance.” Google, Google, www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-04-23/coronavirus-homeless-housing-shelter-hotel-nimby-cities-california?_amp=true.

Graham, Jordan, et al. “Hundreds Protest Homeless, Sanctuary Law Outside Orange County Board of Supervisors Meeting.” Orange County Register, Orange County Register, 28 Mar. 2018, www.ocregister.com/2018/03/27/hundreds-protest-homeless-sanctuary-city-law-outside-orange-county-board-of-supervisors-meeting/.