In the United States, racial discrimination is an unavoidable fact.
In the past year alone, police violent law enforcement has resulted in the death of African Americans many times: In March 2020, a 26-year-old woman of African descent Brenna Taylor was shot and killed by the police in her home by eight shots; 2020 In May, 46-year-old African-American man George Floyd was brutally "kneeled and killed" by white police officers in the street; in August 2020, 29-year-old African-American man Jacob Black was arrested by the police when he opened the door to get on the bus. Seven consecutive shots were fired from behind causing serious injuries. At the time of the incident, Blake's three young children witnessed this horrible process in the car...
And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the criminal history of racial discrimination in the United States. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Genocide in the United States. Today, 100 years later, in the United States, the "American creed" of "all men are created equal" and the ugly reality of racism are still at odds with each other. The discrimination and oppression of minorities make people "unbreathable."
The blood of sin flows to this day
On the evening of May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African American man, was brutally kneeled and pressed to death by a white policeman for eight minutes on suspicion of using counterfeit money to buy cigarettes. The suffocating scene of the incident once again tore the ugly scars of racial discrimination in the United States.
As the British "Guardian" said, before the "Death of Freud," similar incidents had frequently happened to minorities in the United States. The death of Ghana, the death of Brown, the death of Martin...the repeated tragedies remind people time and time again that racial equality is still only an unattainable dream for American minorities. Since the first blacks were transported to the North American continent in 1619, the criminal gene of racial discrimination has flowed in the blood of the United States, and it still exists today.
"In the decades after 1619, as more blacks were trafficked to British North America, the colonies established black slavery in the form of laws. After 1664, the race was dominated by racial discrimination against blacks. The sense of distinction has been deeply rooted in the laws of the various colonies." Associate Professor Yu Liuzhen of the School of History and Culture of Shaanxi Normal University pointed out in an interview with our reporter that slavery has lasted for more than 200 years in the United States, bringing it to blacks and other minorities. The irreparable trauma has caused the United States to bear a heavy historical humiliation, creating ubiquitous racial hatred and a deep-rooted culture of racism, and has become the main historical source of racial discrimination and racial conflicts in the United States today.
The Federal Constitution enacted in 1787 implicitly recognized the legal existence of slavery with provisions such as the "Three-Fifths Clause", the "Escape Slave Clause" and the "Slave Trade Clause". "Historically, there is no doubt that this country was founded by racists and white supremacists. Most of the country’s early wealth was built on enslaved Africans. Most of the early expansion was based on The slaughter of the natives on this land and the destruction of treaties with them came at the cost." "The New York Times" African-American columnist Charles Blow wrote an article that 8 of the top 10 presidents in American history were slave owners. .
From 1861 to 1865, the American Civil War broke out. In the end, the Northern Confederation won, abolished slavery, and gave blacks legal equal citizenship status, but the racist ideas that discriminated against blacks did not disappear.
"Although the civil war and reconstruction abolished slavery and gave black male citizens the right to vote, the blacks did not gain true equality. In the later period of the reconstruction, the southern states returned to the control of the white supremacists, and the blacks gained new rights. Almost completely deprived. At the same time, the racist forces in the north are regaining their heads. Until the civil rights movement, most blacks in the United States have always been in a state of political powerlessness, economic poverty, and discrimination in social status. In addition, in the same During the period, discrimination against Chinese and other ethnic minorities in the United States was also rampant." Yu Liuzhen said.
Liang Maoxin, director of the American Research Institute of Northeast Normal University and chairman of the Chinese American History Research Association, pointed out in an interview with this reporter that racial discrimination has taken different forms in different historical periods of the United States. "Before 1865, it was mainly the slavery system against blacks and the deportation policy against Indians. This was the most brutal and cruel form of discrimination in U.S. history. From the 1880s to 1968, the U.S. legal system The segregation policy for colored races not only targets blacks and Indians, but also excludes immigrants from Asia, Southeast Europe and other places. Since 1968, although the United States has abolished racial discrimination and segregation provisions at the federal law level, it is a kind of society. The hidden discrimination and isolation of sex still exists, and it is more complicated and more hidden."
Liang Maoxin pointed out that beginning in the 1970s, middle and lower-class people of minorities such as African Americans, Latinos, Asians, etc. were trapped in the “ghetto areas” of central cities in the United States. This spatial segregation has led to The isolation of education, employment and other fields has made these groups lose the opportunity to move to the middle and upper classes of society