Why America Struggles to Move on From its Issues with Racism

one year ago

the world health organization officially

announced that the spread of coven 19

had evolved into an epidemic well today

i’m able to announce that the

coronavirus epidemic is

even worse while we have closed on

schools

shut down businesses and introduce

social distancing

the united states still ranks number one

with roughly 30 million total cases

and 500 000 total debts according to cnn

health

so traffic gone wrong as a nation

in adequate testing facilities the lack

of compliance with social distancing

and the downplaying of the dangers of

the virus by our government officials

namely former president donald trump has

exacerbated the effects of the virus

and unfortunately trump’s suggestion of

treating the virus with injection

disinfectant

is not viable evidently

this problem doesn’t just pan out with

the chronovirus epidemic

as we treat other issues such as reason

with the same mentality

as americans during the beginning stages

of the pandemic like the long passage

when in reality

they’re just getting started with harsh

miscalculation

their desire to move on to issues

without addressing them

proves problematic even

and thanks to the united states

phenomenal education system

yvonne quite the end of slavery but the

end

of racism as school textbooks erase the

history of america’s bigotry from the

long history of segregation

to the japanese and tournament camps

briefly touched in history class

the united states has long displayed

their desire to move on

without addressing its past you can say

hate crimes against asian americans have

spiked 150

from the news of the epidemic according

to nbc news

but despite the constant insistence that

this is not what america is about

its history and the realization along

place by people of color

show that racism is deeply embedded

within its identity

so let’s dust off our history books and

find out how this way of thinking has

spread

next we’ll take a look at the symptoms

of this ideal

and finally he’ll try and look for a

cure

throughout your childhood the narrative

of the american dream has been touted to

us

but what dream awaits the american who

moved to the united states in the 1850s

to pursue this narrative

ought to be viewed as perpetually

foreign to this day

a dream always african americans who

were friends with slavery 150 years ago

and yet still fight for their lives and

what dream awaits

middle eastern immigrants who are so

easily burned as terrorists spawned the

event

of 9 11. the reality is

that racism didn’t get better with the

end of slavery the civil rights movement

are even the election of obama’s present

and yet we often complete these small

victories with races being solved

psychologists asking robertson explains

that when it comes to problem solving

humans often expect there to be an angle

to be met

we evaluate and simplify issues so it’s

solution to be selected

this makes it problematic for when we as

humans

try and solve an issue as systemic as

racism which cannot simply

simply be solved through one-off

solutions

so we turn to denial a 2018 poll

conducted by the economist showed that

40 of white americans believed that

black people would be as successful as

whites if they simply

tried harder ignoring the policies like

jim crow

and the redlining that create

generations of poverty that still affect

minorities to this day

and there’s a tragedy revealing that

america’s white supremacy is still alive

only here this is not what america is

about

but we must acknowledge how america

called the

nazis imprisonment of jews horrific

while forcing japanese americans

into internment camps we must

acknowledge how

america deployed the military during

black lives matter protests

and yet none of the reading of the white

house by rival rifle-carrying writers

and we must acknowledge how america

and we must acknowledge how a white

man’s bad day

results in the talking of asian rhyme

businesses the deaths of

six asian women because when we spent

decades covering up for your country’s

past while spending no time addressing

it

it becomes part of the country’s present

they say time kills all wounds but when

you don’t properly address one

hit confessor today we see these wounds

manifested in the conflicts between

white people and people of color the

increased attacks on asian americans

as well as to rejuvenate interest in

white supremacy groups

such as the proud boys and although

our former president played a large role

in examining these issues

they’ve always been there the survey

conducted by the

pw research center in june 2020 explains

that

78 of asian americans as well as

african-americans as well as 58 of

hispanics

reported they experienced racial

discrimination

with asians being the most likely to be

subjected to racial slurs

and with the history we’ve made with

tamala harris as the first

elected female and black vice president

you must not forget that there is much

work

to be done you must avoid moving on from

issues once

we perceive that progress has been made

replied

with the black lives matter protests in

the summer of 2020

when many people simply post the black

score on instagram

hashtagging black out tuesday and

calling enough activism for the day

because only when we’ve stopped to

acknowledge the festering wounds

the systemic racism will we be able to

start taking actions to treat it

in the second grade i moved from a

really small town in kansas to a really

recent part of oklahoma

called oklahoma growing up in oklahoma

high experiencing a lot of racial

discrimination and when i tried to tell

the adults around me about this issue as

experiencing

it often downplayed saying that racial

was prevalent everywhere and that i just

needed to grow their skin

same issue occurred when i tried to tell

my asian peers about this problem

they tell me that they experienced the

same risk as well

but they ignored and told me that i

should too

as a community asian americans have

learned to keep their head down

and move on when fixing discrimination

according to nbc news while a quarter of

asian americans reported that they’ve

experienced racial discrimination

plain quarter responded that they’d be

comfortable reporting to law enforcement

and that needs to change not only has

conforming to the stereotype

that we are not confrontational

resulting as being more easily targeted

places are most vulnerable that have

targets on their backs

nbc news reports that of the 2600 hate

crimes reported from february 2020

to march 2021 68

have been women many being elders

as a communi asian amer we must

start speaking up when our friends try

to pass off a racist comment as a joke

we need to start speaking up when the

boy scene next to us pulls the corners

of his eyes back

and we need to start speaking up when

our friends and family are being beat on

the streets

because while unlimited silence i’ve

been taught

has been an uphill battle the small

difference i made

when i decided to stop ignoring the

racism around me was

worth it what i learned from that was

that

my journey towards progress will never

be over

and that is okay

as a society let’s rewrite our

relationship with progress

first when it comes to issues such as

racism progress will not be linear

sometimes we will get stuck and fall

back

our journey towards progress is a room

full of twists and turns

ups and downs and that is okay

as long as we continue to move forward

what is important

is that we acknowledge these issues

don’t deny them instead of work

the problem because denying the problem

exists only makes it easier

for people to get hurt by them second

we must realize that doing one good

thing and no we need somewhere out of

the woods

but not out of the woods because of the

history we made with kamala harris

obama’s presidency we’re even posting

black score on instagram

single moment of success does not mean

that

the problem is over and that we can

simply move on with their lives

because the truth is issues as in

greatest reason will never completely

disappear

since time we accept that now

realizing accepting that our fight

against systemic wisdom

might never be over does not mean that

things when things will never get better

but that we must stay visually even when

things start to look up

we must ignore we must stop ignoring

our problems instead they still head on

like then we truly be able to have

progress

thank you

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