In Bao Phi’s article it is possible to see that racism towards Asians or Asian Americans is never ending. We can see from Duy Ngo’s story when he works for the police, but his safety is 0%. on the contrary, Bao Phi also felt very surprised and confused when he heard the story of Duy Ngo again “From Duy’s account: the squad car rolled up to him with its lights turned off as he lay prone, and the officers failed to announce their presence – all against regulation. One officer then shot several bursts at Duy with a non-regulation MP5 submachine gun, shattering his left forearm, leg, and groin”. The resolution of that problem by the white police is extremely irresponsible. It can be said through Bao Phi’s article that even though we try to integrate, to change the way of life to become a white person, there is no meaning. Because it’s so obvious even in history, it’s right that it’s right to be like white people. But the treatment is never fair between people of color and white people.
More than that, through Zen’s article can be seen. The Asians protested in support of the NYPD because they were worried about their lives, it could be said there was too much violence against the Asians and the people who made it were black “Some of the more visible anti-Asian attacks were perpetrated by Black people, like the incident when an Asian man was sprayed with febreze on the subway”. But what Chinese immigrants want is the listening of the white policemen “But this is only the first step to more dialogue with them. Chinese immigrants know that the police aren’t good to Asians. They themselves have often encountered situations where they are treated poorly by the police because they don’t speak English fluently. So the conversations we need to have with them are really to start drawing the connections between these struggles and those of Black people.”
I agree with points you made but one point you mentioned was how Asian Americans support the law enforcement because they believe that will guarantee their protection against violence that occurs in their community, specifically violence they think is caused by the black community. Yes I do agree that there is violence towards the Asian community, but the faults of a few people who happened to be black, shouldn’t justify their hatred towards the entire black community. Nor should it be an excuse to not support BLM, and to rather support the same law enforcement that oppresses black people. They support the police because the law was made to be against the black community, but that’s the same law that isn’t necessarily in favour of the Asians either. The law wasn’t necessarily made to favor minorities in general, and for conservative Asians to be supporting them when the law itself doesn’t favor them either is just hypocritical.