Phi discusses how conservative Asian Americans are when it came to societal issues such as police brutality. He talks about how Asian Americans support the police and how they supported a petition for the NYPD, but then won’t show the same support when one of their own community members was murdered by the same police. Also,there were many that stated they were tired of being pushed around especially when politicians who are suppose to represent them did nothing to the effect of protecting them as people. Phi explains no matter how hard we, in this case (Asian Americans) attempt to assimilate into American culture, we simply cannot fully be accepted because of transgressions against them. Chinese conservatives often take the side of the oppressors. This is because they are conditioned to believe that other minorities such as the Black community are “lazy criminals” and are responsible for “all the hate crimes towards Asians.” For example, as we all have seen, the violence and xenophobia against Asian populations have been on the rise since the covid-19 pandemic here in America. Many of these crimes have portrayed the perpetrators as Black Americans as a threat to Chinese businesses in particular. Because of this, the surge of Anti-Asian hate crimes have sparked protest in favor of NYPD. They always support the police, and are in favor of times when the police is unjust to the black community. And unfortunately many Chinese Americans don’t care about the lives of black peoples due to this hatred that they have towards them. The goal of this letter is to make the author’s family understand that Black Americans aren’t their enemies and that it is wrong for Asian Americans to be siding with the law enforcement aka their oppressors because, their support of NYPD doesn’t guarantee protection.Instead Asian Americans should be more accepting towards the black community, understanding that they too are minorities who also struggle in a society where the system wasn’t made to favor them.I think this person reached their goal with this letter because it not only addressed their community directly but, addressed a common issues we have been hearing between Asian Americans and Black Americans.
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Well said. I think the most important part (something that I found in all 3 articles) is that none of them attempted to attack or accuse the people they are arguing against. They instead were very sympathetic and understanding, and acknowledged the reasons why many Asian Americans would lean conservative. They then explained why it would be beneficial to everyone if those Asian Americans would rethink their positions.