Katharina Tian ASA002 A01 Week10

Katharina Tian
ASA002 A01 Week10

Caroline Valverde

The End, But Another Start 

This is the last blog and also the last part of this book “Fight The Tower”. The conclusion part of this book, "Conclusion: Academics Awaken Power, Resistance and being Woke" by Kieu Linh Caroline and Wei Ming Dariotis, is about the change in the education system that allows all races of the scholars and the learners to access the academic resources freely and fairly. By reading through this book, I knew there are many great people who are fighting for us. They as professors faced many unfair treatments such as low salaries, hopeless promotion, and even job insecurity. Most of them chose to fight against this situation not only for themselves but also for other people who have the same identities as them. I feel so grateful and very appreciated. They are heroes for Asian Americans.

However, I think this unfair treatment should not exist especially in academics. People who work in the Academic should have high education which should be teahed them that being racist is not right.  People who have high education should have a very diverse and open mind. We are all humans. We are all the same whatever which country they are from or which color their skins are. I can’t keep thinking about the tragedy that happened recently. The poor black man, George Floyd, was killed by the US police who pinned him down on the ground for a couple minutes with his knee without listening to George’s request for breathing. I believe if this is a white man, then this tragedy won’t happen. So, my question is that how can people be so cureless to another human when that person says he can’t breathe anymore?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/us/minneapolis-police-encounter-death-trnd/index.html

Reference

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

Sanchez, R., Sutton, J., & Moshtaghian, A. (2020, May 26). 4 Minneapolis cops fired after video shows one kneeling on neck of black man who later died [Digital image]. Retrieved May 31, 2020, from https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/us/minneapolis-police-encounter-death-trnd/index.html