A04 Lele Bian Week 10

This week’s reading is a conclusion of “fight the tower", it reminds me of all of the stories I had read through the quarter. It tells us to stay woke and fight against inequality whenever we see it. Asian Americans have always been told to work hard and work as what is told, but never been satisfied. This society has been structured in this way, where people of color are laying under the whites; However, the rules or the society is not engineered by the whites-only, all of the people made an effort; therefore, it is super hard to change it. 

After reading the book, I realized the importance of speaking up and voicing out your value. However, the tool you use to speak out is the key to success. Recently, after George Floyd was killed by the police force, there were so many protests around the US. In the beginning, the protest was peacefully demanding that Black live matters, then the police was been charged as murder. However, in recent days, these protesters changed, they started to broke into the store, homes, and attack police. I don't really understand why they started doing this because this would not help protest. It can only make the society and economy worse and worse. 

My friend just sent me this picture, and I feel the words are really impressive. People are different, we couldn't characterize people based on their color. Not all blacks are criminals, not all cops are bad, and not all whites are racist. We would give any ethic group one stereotype. 

My question after seeing the protesting, it reminds me of the effectivities of it. The people who broke into the store might not be the protesters, they might just be random people who want to do robbery using the opportunity. If we want the protest to go effectively, we have to distinguish between these groups. If we are unable to identify these groups, protest would happen in an unpeaceful way. If the protesting keeps going like this, would US make a ban on the protest?

Reference: 

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.