Shiting Yu A02 Week5

In this week's reading "The Cost of Speaking," it introduced a story that a female professor failed to get promoted because of her race. So she stood up to fight for this inequality. However, the school hired an expensive lawyer to win this lawsuit. This makes her situation worse and embarrassed. The vivid comparison between speaking up and not speaking up reminds all of us cruel reality.
This also reminds me of Pepper Spray Incident in UC Davis. When students tries to fight for their rights, the school usually used some unrational methods to deal with if they think it is bad.
However, I think, in this society, these brave persons who are willing to speak up is the kind of people we need. Especially for unfair treatment of race, we still need to speak up for ourselves. I know, at the beginning, it is hard for Asian American to get started because some strange ideas already existed for a long time. However, more silent we are, more unfair we will face.
Although this is common phenomenon in the society, we still need to change it. We can not depend others to do something for us. The best way is take actions with ourselves first.

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.
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