For the past ten weeks this quarter, we’ve been talking about the unfair and racial discrimination that Asian Americans face mostly in academia. However, those problems and inequality are not only happening in academia but also in many parts of people's life. All the videos we have watched, all the guest speakers' talking, and all the data and cases we have seen in the powerpoints opened a new world for me. Some of them shocked me and some made me mad and sad.
All these unfair treatments are what intensive people fight back. People have to fight the injustice and discrimination by calling it out, support each other, and gather together to stand out a place for themselves. Staying silent cannot change anything but lead to worse conditions. What we talked about doesn’t just apply to academia, it applies everywhere. Also, the discrimination between different-colored is only between whites and Asian Americans. Recently, something causes huge influence happened. Protests erupt for a sixth day across the US in over thirty cities because of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And up to yesterday, at least 40 cities have imposed curfews and National Guard members have been activated. This was not only about a man died due to the police's oppressive conduct. This brought up one of the most serious problems in US-Blacks and Whites. This is not about Asian American but similar racial discrimination we have to face.
References:
All these unfair treatments are what intensive people fight back. People have to fight the injustice and discrimination by calling it out, support each other, and gather together to stand out a place for themselves. Staying silent cannot change anything but lead to worse conditions. What we talked about doesn’t just apply to academia, it applies everywhere. Also, the discrimination between different-colored is only between whites and Asian Americans. Recently, something causes huge influence happened. Protests erupt for a sixth day across the US in over thirty cities because of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And up to yesterday, at least 40 cities have imposed curfews and National Guard members have been activated. This was not only about a man died due to the police's oppressive conduct. This brought up one of the most serious problems in US-Blacks and Whites. This is not about Asian American but similar racial discrimination we have to face.
References:
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.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-28/what-we-know-about-two-of-the-officers-caught-on-tape-in-the-death-of-george-floyd
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-28/what-we-know-about-two-of-the-officers-caught-on-tape-in-the-death-of-george-floyd
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