China News Agency, Beijing, April 18th, title: The haze of racism will not dissipate, and the American dream can only be a dream

　　China News Agency reporter Xu Wenxin

　　"All men are created equal." In 1776, the American Dream sketched out in a few numbers in the Declaration of Independence is fascinating.

More than two hundred years later, this dream is still out of reach.

　　On April 15, the China Human Rights Research Association released the research report "Anti-Asian Racial Discrimination is Rising and Realizing the Essence of American Racist Society", exposing the evil deeds of the United States against Asian-American hate crimes, exposing the lies of its "national melting pot", tearing apart open the historical rift in its racist society.

　　The report pointed out that Asian Americans are facing increasing racist attacks.

From slandering on the street to stabbing with a knife, from hanging children to the elderly, from "Kung Fu Flu" to "No Chinese".

Pieces of piles, why?

Its root is the deep-rooted racism cancer in American society.

　　Since the mid-19th century, a large number of Chinese immigrants have come to the United States. They built the Pacific Railway in the Sierra Nevada, which is more than 2,100 meters high, and cultivated land in Sacramento, where mosquitoes and ants are infested. They have made important contributions to the development of American society.

They worked hard at the cost of their lives, and what awaited them was violence, shootings, discrimination and injustice.

In 1871, in the Los Angeles Chinese Massacre, 21 Chinese were beaten and strangled to death, and none of the perpetrators were punished.

　　The argument that the Chinese are outsiders and an economic threat is rampant. The US government introduced the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. Chinese immigrants could not enjoy normal citizenship status, were deprived of human dignity, and even their opportunities to earn a living were strictly limited.

This ethnic-specific immigration law has lasted for more than 60 years.

During this period, the white people's sense of superiority and the sense of threat brought by the Chinese did not disappear. In 1885, because the Chinese did not participate in the strike, they were massacred again in Shiquan Town, Wyoming, USA, and at least 28 Chinese were killed.

　　In the 1960s, when the civil rights movement in the United States was surging, openly talking about racism became taboo, and in order to strengthen the centrality of Anglo-Saxons, the United States divided and ruled various ethnic groups.

During this period, stories describing the success of Asian Americans appeared in the American media. The Asian Americans in the reports were obedient, diligent, educated and accomplished, and were called "model minorities".

For Asian Americans, this label seems like a halo, but it is a yoke—they are both isolated from mainstream society and viewed as outsiders in race relations.

Asians living in the isolation bubble are divided by other ethnic groups because of the "halo", and even become the target of attack.

In this environment, Asians' perception of discrimination has declined, and they have become invisible victims of discrimination.

　　"Only rotten trees will grow bad apples." Behind the deterioration of the living environment of Asians is the connivance of racism by the US government; it is the manipulation of US politicians who disregard human rights and regard minorities as political tools.

　　In the context of the pandemic, the United States has the most advanced medical technology, but it has become the country with the highest number of new crown infections and deaths.

Not only did the politicians not seek to fight the epidemic, but instead, they "threw the blame" on China to make a big difference, provoking racial antagonisms against Chinese and even Asians.

In this atmosphere, the American people lack a sense of security, and the racial conflicts that have been provoked are intertwined with fear, turning the blame that should have been directed at the government on ethnic minorities.

　　Asians are not the only victims of political manipulation. The situation of immigrants from different countries has historically been deeply affected by the relationship between the United States and its home country.

From the Germans who were inexplicably prosecuted during World War I; to the Japanese who were imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II; to immigrants from Muslim countries living under strict control after the "9.11" incident.

　　Minorities who have suffered and lost have long known that the American dream of freedom and equality has nothing to do with them, and that the dream of racial equality is still out of reach.

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