One Systematic Injustice that I felt that is extremely relevant in the current day, is the increasing mistreatment of Asian Americans in the United States. The reason that I wanted to showcase this specific injustice is that I am Asian American. The mistreatment of Asian Americans has always been prevalent in the United States, it is just now that people are beginning to take notice. This surge of hate most likely stemmed from the pandemic that we are in, and Asians are treated as a scapegoat because the virus originated in China. Furthermore, previous president, Donald Trump, remarked the virus as the “Chinese virus” or the “Wuhan virus”. He not only laid the blame for the Chinese citizens of Wuhan, but he also put a target on Asian Americans’ back. It is ironic because Donald Trump is putting the blame on Wuhan for allowing the virus to spread, meanwhile, he didn’t install practices that would prevent Covid from spreading in the U.S in the first place.
Now, anti-Asian hate crimes are skyrocketing across the United States. In San Francisco, a 76-year-old Asian American woman was assaulted by a 30-year-old white man on the street. There was no motive for this attack nor did the elderly woman provoke anything for this attack to happen. This was just one example on how Asian Americans are being treated in the United States. According to the New York City Police Department, “it was reported that there was a 1900% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020”. In another instance, there was a tragic mass shooting that took the lives of eight of people, six of which were Asian. Public health officials have requested that investigators consider this as a hate crime and charge the suspect as so.
Now, the insurgence of anti-Asian hate crimes is clearly systematic injustices as there hasn’t been anything in place to prevent these crimes. Furthermore, due to the wrongful grouping of identity, all ethnicities branching from Asian are also receiving hate. Asian Americans are born and raised in America but yet still receive hate. In everyone else’s eyes, they are still considered foreigners. The only way to solve this injustice is to educate the American people. All Asian Americans are still American and I think it’s important to engrain this in people’s minds.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/21/us/metro-atlanta-shootings-sunday/index.html
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/a-real-durwan/summary-and-analysis