In “Lessons from the Case of Duy Ngo”, Pil talk about the case of Peter Liang, a cop who shot and killed an unarmed Black man that could get a 100,00o Asian to sign the petition however won’t show the same support when someone of their own like “the case of Duy Ngo” who was shot by an white police who said to mistakenly Duy for an Asian gang member. It said that some Asian said that they are tired of being pushed around. Asian have the right to worry about their life as they would stand in the good of the police. Asian are being taught to yearn to fully assimilate into American-ness but history shows that we would never be fully white. Pil’s point is that we shouldn’t pick sides, taking the side of the oppressor does not guarantee our protection, no matter one thinks so. He taught that we should rather stick together as a minority and fight against systemic injustice and oppression. Chinese conservatism would show support of the oppressor. Many of the crimes would portray that black people are the threat to Asian business. True there are crimes hate with black people toward Asian however it is wrong to just put the blame on them most of the time like cases where property got destroyed or procession got stolen, they would stand by the law enforcement. There are cases that are unrelated toward black, but most would put the blame on them. This case relates to Pil as they should show support when Asian is involved with black but won’t do the same when it involves white. The goal of this letter is to make people understand that Black is not our enemy and that it is wrong for Asian American to take sides with Law enforcement because taking the side of the oppressor does not guarantee our protection. Instead we should rather stick together as a minority and fight against systemic injustice and oppression. As the black community is someone who also struggles in a society where the system wasn’t made to favor them. I think the letter meets its goal as it teaches us that supporting Law enforcement won’t guarantee our protection and that Black community is not our enemy and that we should show support and it also gives us explanation and name of those black lives lost by the system.
