Kill or to be killed. The stories in the reading Hamamoto Empire of death illustrate murder
cases that happened and what are the causes to the murders in our country. As I
read through the reading, I found that one of the most common motive of the
murder is hatred to a race. Most Asian Americans that migrate to the States came
from a war-torn country like Vietnam. Since the USA has a long bitter history
with these countries, some war veterans and their offspring still resent people
that have the same ethnicity as their used to be enemies. Asian Americans had
become the target of racism and murder because of the truthful past. In one of
the stories, I even read that Asians are less likely to receive equal justice
from the law enforcer. Despite the Cases that have been told in these stories,
I still believe that murder can happen to anyone and to any races not just
Asians. Considering 17.284 cases of murder in 2017 in America, 48% of the murder
victims are black and only less than 10% of the murder victims are Asian
Americans. Even when the crime against Asian Americans were not reported, I
still believe that it will reach a significant number. It is true that there
are cases against Asian Americans in these murders, yet America is well known
for its murder rate and most of the victims are not from an Asian descent.
Question: does the motive "race" contributes to the highest percentage for murder ?
REFERENCE:
https://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/keep-calm-and-no-murder/
Darrel Y Hamamoto. Empire of death
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