Invention 2

 

“Love us like you love our Food” 

    I wrote this on the sidewalk by NJCU, and it stand for the Asian hate crime that has been going on. Lately it made me feel like everyone is a hypocrite because they throw hate on our culture and make snarky comments, but how can you hate us when you love the food we make and we give you? How are you able to order our culture’s food but hate and disrespect us? “Love us like you love our food,” is giving a message to people to love us for who we are just like you love our Asian cuisines. Last week marked a year since a man murdered eight women and six of them Asian American at massage parlors across the metro Atlanta area. It was the peak of national awareness of the problem and inspired public condemnations and decrees that disavowed such hatred. And the funny thing is that Asian hate is still continuing till this day. All over the world, and it never ends. 

    Beginning in February of 2020, the Commission received a sevenfold increase in reports of anti-Asian harassment, discrimination, and violence. It is crucial to note that hate crimes and bias incidents have been found to be vastly under-reported so these numbers only reflect reported incidents. And I have realized over the years that the world we live in, the system is messed up in so many ways. No matter what goes on in the world, there is never anyone who takes the lead or have the courage to stop everything that is happening. That is just my opinion, because no matter how many people protest and fight for what they believe in, there are others who are ignorant in this world. The government however, in the recent rash of violence against Asian Americans prompted U.S. President Joe Biden to sign into law the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. It calls for a point person at the Department of Justice to speed up the review of hate crimes. The legislation also provides grants for training and education against racism. The legislation passed in the House in 2021 and received overwhelming support in the Senate that year.  

In the Civil Rights Movement reading, "Honor King End Racism." These posters were handed out to Marchers seven days after the march and four days after when Martin Luther King was assassinated to support and in honor of the strike. 

It is commonly observed that the crisis in race relations dominates the arena of American life. One is resort to the all too prevalent method of physical violence and corroding hatred. The danger of this method is its futility. Violence solves no social problems; it merely creates new and more complicated ones.