Phis’ point about Asian-Americans relationship to police and police violence is that in the police “community/force” and in general Asians aren’t treated nicely. In the police force, for example they would help you throw the rocks and hide their hands and let you take the blame for it, they would turn a blind eye. Another example is the Death of Akai Gurley where this Asian police officer shot Akai and in Peters case he though the police force would somewhat help him walk away from his crime as other (white) police officers with the same crimes get to keep their jobs and Peter Liang does his time. Also, according to Phi he stated “Duy was shocked to find that the police force he was so loyal to quickly turned on him.” He also mentioned ” The white officer who shot him with an illegal firearm was put on paid leave for three days- no criminal charges were filed against that officer and didn’t find any policy or procedural violation.” and the goal of this is to show that no matter who white people will always come first and play their privilege card.
What i learned about “Chinese conservatism” is 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, and Chinese Immigrants genuinely feel like they are the victim of criminal activity and a lot of their struggles do not align with mainstream liberal concerns- according to Zen.
The goal for this BLM letter is to reach out to the Asian community specially the elders and bring awareness that the black community is suffering TOO and that even though other POC communities are facing some kind of racism and discrimination, we must stand together and not create conflict with one another.
Right Yvenson, sometimes it comes like the black community is not acknowledged for anything positive. The white privilege comes into play with any cases involving law enforcement. Phi talked about Chinese communities experiencing this. There should not be a line dividing Blacks and Asians because that feeds into what the privileged people want. They want to see division and inequality.