A systemic injustice that I would be talking about is white supremacy and how much of an impact throughout the years it has done throughout the other races. The reason why I would be discussing this specifically would be that it is a very important and critical subject to be discussing, as well as it connects to systemic injustice because it is within the topic of systemic racism that affects a positive society into a more negative direction within an organization or society. Through that, it would connect to every aspect of an individual’s health care, employment, education, etc., decreasing the bond between races.
This would also connect to a topic that was talked about in class with Story of My Body by Judith Ortiz Cofer, where she has gone through a hate crime throughout her time in America before her impact during her college years. An example of a hate crime from her story would be when she was in her first experience of prejudice in Paterson, New Jersey where she was only about nine years old in the toy section of a store where she would get supplies for her mother daily, and when looking trying to learn to pronounce some of the labellings, there was a butcher and some brothers who would define her as “colored”. Finally, she was at the store and saw a schoolteacher doll and before she can touch it the butcher chased her out, saying “Don’t come back here unless you gonna buy something. You PR kids put your dirty hands on stuff. You always look dirty. But maybe dirty brown if your natural color.” (StoryOfMyBody).
The imagery that is presented is three Asian women standing up for what they believe because a sad event is occurring for Asain hate crime that was started by the pandemic of Covid-19 lasting this long and the negative impact it has occurred to everyone near or obtaining it; losing many lives and causing a shift of chain reactions of problems from it. The events of supremacy keep on changing and targeting different races and harming the bond with a new change in a positive way of moving forward. The negative impact that this can have would be to destroy a bond that was placed, lose many more lives besides the pandemic that has been occurring for over a year, increase the lack of view for understanding creating the situation to grow exponentially, and affecting Asian Americans and Asian individual’s way of living and not feeling safe. Throughout the whole crime, there has been stating that “in this case Asian Americans, do not belong. It is rooted in racism, white superiority, and xenophobia…”(Harmful effects).
Finally, another reason why the Asian hate crime would be by “shared characteristics … or other cultural markers” (Ted), how bad the hate crime progresses it can lead to the attack on that specific community; through this, it can create a permanent scar that would be difficult to heal tainting their trust together.
Work Cited
Imagery – https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Fracism-is-behind-anti-asian-american-violence-even-when-its-not-a-hate-crime-157487&psig=AOvVaw28mHInVxcWr_YGTAY7xMB0&ust=1616975398666000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCPiPpvfU0e8CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
Harmful effects – https://www.verywellmind.com/mental-health-effects-of-racism-on-asian-communities-5072783
Ted Talk – https://www.ted.com/talks/shahnaaz_khan_killed_by_hate_how_hate_crimes_attack_identities?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
OrtizCofer_StoryOfMyBody – In class PDF reading