Where I live, the Asian community is plagued by an open drug market. The people who live in the community aren't the customers or sellers. The police keep moving the drug market there. The businesses suffer. The people spend an inordinate amount of time trying to get help from the city. It improves, and we elected a progressive mayor who seems intent upon helping the root causes of the drug problem.
Ever since the Chinese Exclusion acts America has defined itself by being anti Asian. I'm talking of the government, not the people but the white majority picked that government. Seeing how Trump treated our Afghani allies was because of racism. The Republicans want America to be a whites only nation. The Supreme Court thinks anybody who isn't white can be a subject maybe they can be gifted citizenship.
It's unfortunate some people believe Asian people don't face discrimination but the world is full of people acting atrociously because of their unfortunate beliefs.
I was born in the early 1950s. I don’t remember much anti-Asian sentiment until my family moved from Michigan to Kansas City in the mid sixties. Then, wow! The hatred for Asian people was off the charts, particularly the Japanese, though all Asians were included under the “They all look alike to me” doctrine beloved by white supremacists. It wasn’t as overt as anti-Black bigotry, but was just as virulent and malicious.
I always chalked it up to the idea you never hate anybody quite as much as the people you’ve done wrong.
I guess I have my own bias about Asians as a whole. I see them as high achievers, serious citizens and accomplished leaders and authors of note. Certainly not a group that I would like to lose as American citizens!
Amazing that I'm still not beyond being astonished. That Trump is not called on the carpet before Congress to account for the many times he has blatantly said we do not want immigrants from Brown and Black countries here--WHITES only--has got to be a testament to the accepted attitude of the United States of America. It would seem to me you cannot be President of these United States and say that. But here we are. Makes it pretty impossible for me to feel...patriotic??
Thank you for reporting this. I was unaware. This is so unacceptable. What a myth American exceptionalism is! It appears, sadly, that the USA is exceptional at hate.
Wow--you hit the nail right on the head with that last statement. It seems that the coming society of robots would be optimal for the US--a country of identical klangers!! How depressing.
Where I live, the Asian community is plagued by an open drug market. The people who live in the community aren't the customers or sellers. The police keep moving the drug market there. The businesses suffer. The people spend an inordinate amount of time trying to get help from the city. It improves, and we elected a progressive mayor who seems intent upon helping the root causes of the drug problem.
It is clearly racism.
Ever since the Chinese Exclusion acts America has defined itself by being anti Asian. I'm talking of the government, not the people but the white majority picked that government. Seeing how Trump treated our Afghani allies was because of racism. The Republicans want America to be a whites only nation. The Supreme Court thinks anybody who isn't white can be a subject maybe they can be gifted citizenship.
It's unfortunate some people believe Asian people don't face discrimination but the world is full of people acting atrociously because of their unfortunate beliefs.
I was born in the early 1950s. I don’t remember much anti-Asian sentiment until my family moved from Michigan to Kansas City in the mid sixties. Then, wow! The hatred for Asian people was off the charts, particularly the Japanese, though all Asians were included under the “They all look alike to me” doctrine beloved by white supremacists. It wasn’t as overt as anti-Black bigotry, but was just as virulent and malicious.
I always chalked it up to the idea you never hate anybody quite as much as the people you’ve done wrong.
Thank you for your continued teaching. ✌🏻
Thank you for this piece. I also saw this piece from ACLU Wisconsin earlier today.
https://www.aclu-wi.org/news/racial-profiling-rampant-after-supreme-court-ruling/
I guess I have my own bias about Asians as a whole. I see them as high achievers, serious citizens and accomplished leaders and authors of note. Certainly not a group that I would like to lose as American citizens!
Amazing that I'm still not beyond being astonished. That Trump is not called on the carpet before Congress to account for the many times he has blatantly said we do not want immigrants from Brown and Black countries here--WHITES only--has got to be a testament to the accepted attitude of the United States of America. It would seem to me you cannot be President of these United States and say that. But here we are. Makes it pretty impossible for me to feel...patriotic??
Thank you for reporting this. I was unaware. This is so unacceptable. What a myth American exceptionalism is! It appears, sadly, that the USA is exceptional at hate.
Wow--you hit the nail right on the head with that last statement. It seems that the coming society of robots would be optimal for the US--a country of identical klangers!! How depressing.
Thank you for keeping us informed not gaslit
The United States of Amnesia is about wrongs someone has done buy never about racial hatred. That is a deep rot within the bones of too many.
Some people, especially The Fapweasel (Trump) immediately look for someone else to blame when things go wrong, a classic immature response!
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