(Question about things) Short comment: Has the American dream of racial equality come true?
China News Service, Beijing, August 28th Question: Has the American dream of racial equality come true?
Author Xu Huanguan
“I dream that one day this country will rise up and realize the true meaning of its founding creed:’We believe that these truths are self-evident: all men are created equal.'” On August 28, 1963, the leader of the African American movement, Martin. Luther King delivered a speech “I Have a Dream” at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Nearly a reincarnation of Jiazi, has the dream of racial equality come true in the United States?
At the Tokyo Olympics a few days ago, American athlete Ruiwen Sanders crossed his head in an “X” shape, telling the world that the black American community is still at an uncertain “crossroads.” Last year, George Freud issued a pleading “I can’t breathe”, indicating that equality is still only a dream.
On May 25, 2021, local time, people in New York, USA, commemorated the first anniversary of the death of George Freud, an African-American man.
If Freud who “cannot breathe” is a case of inequality in the law enforcement field, the numbers in the judicial field seem to be unpretentious. African Americans, who account for only 13% of the total population of the United States, account for one-third of the total number of prisoners. Discrimination in employment is even more pronounced. African-American workers are often “employed last and fired first.” The unemployment rate has been twice that of whites in the past 40 years.
“Insulted and hurt” is far more than African Americans. Especially since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the scum of “white supremacy” has emerged, and incidents of Asian Americans being humiliated and even attacked in public have occurred from time to time. Some irresponsible politicians in the United States have deliberately misled.
A survey of young Asian Americans showed that in the past year, a quarter of young Asian Americans became targets of racial bullying. At the same time, the rights of American Indians have also been violated, the rate of hate crimes remains high, and the inequality between races has further increased.
“Race equality” is becoming more and more nameless in the United States today. Former U.S. President Barack Obama also admitted that “being treated differently because of race is the tragic, painful, and angry’normal’ for millions of Americans.”
Why did the “Declaration of Independence” that “everyone is born equal” disappeared into nothing? On the one hand, the U.S. government was speechless before the phenomenon of domestic racial discrimination, and did not act wisely in safeguarding and protecting the legal rights of ethnic minorities. On the other hand, human rights, equality, freedom, etc. have already been alienated in American practice. The cold-blooded propositions of social Darwinism are hidden under the fig leaf of elections and voting.
Martin Luther King sighed, “A hundred years ago, a great American signed the “Proclamation for the Emancipation of the Black Slaves”… One hundred years later, black people are still shrinking in the corner of American society.” More than a century later, American society has become more torn, and the dream of ethnic minorities’ pursuit of equality seems even more distant.
The United States, which stigmatizes others and cannot beautify itself and is keen to be a human rights “judge”, should turn its attention to its own maladies and abuses, and take concrete actions to resolve the suffering of the people’s livelihood, so that the American people can truly feel “safety and prosperity.” Only in this way, the dream 58 years ago will not be a mirror image. Only in this way, future generations will no longer have to mourn for future generations. (over)
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