On the world ｜ American racial melting pot？ A true lie!

　　"America is God’s crucible, a great melting pot … …”

　　For a long period of history, the concept of racial "melting pot" has made many Americans proud: immigrants from all corners of the world with different cultures and beliefs have "melted" into one in the United States. The greatness of the United States lies in its "aggregation of various civilizations and cultures" and its cohesion has been enhanced by "the continuous improvement of cultural diversity."

　　However, is this really the case?

　　In fact, since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the United States, which is known as "all rivers run into the sea", is extremely unequal and lacks tolerance among all ethnic groups in China. Racism is a comprehensive, systematic and persistent existence in the United States. Nowadays, with the worsening of the epidemic, hatred and racial discrimination have become "ugly poisons that plague American society". The statement that the United States is a "racial melting pot" in which "all men are created equal" is an out-and-out "true lie". Now even Americans themselves don’t believe it!

　　Hatred and discrimination persist for a hundred years, and African Americans are becoming more and more "unable to breathe"!

　　"I witnessed the black people being shot, the black people’s bodies piled up in the street, and I could smell the smoke and see the flames. I saw black shops burned down. "

　　今年5月，107岁高龄的维奥拉·弗莱彻在美国国会作证时，讲述了自己亲历的那场针对黑人的种族屠杀事件。

　　5月31日，在美国纽约，一名参加纪念塔尔萨种族屠杀一百周年活动的女子额头贴有“塔尔萨”字样的装饰。新华社发（郭克摄）

　　1921年5月31日至6月1日，数千名白人暴徒在美国塔尔萨市内通过持枪扫射、纵火方式洗劫了数十家非裔企业、烧毁了1200多栋非裔住宅，有约300名黑人在这场大屠杀中丧生，约一万名黑人居民流离失所。

　　屠杀本身已够凄惨，但长期以来，这场悲剧却被忽视和遗忘，美国政府、媒体、社会团体等选择了沉默不语，甚至故意掩盖事实真相，刻意抹杀这一历史记忆。著名演员汤姆·汉克斯说，“我从未读过一页学校的历史书，讲述过这段历史。”

　　百年已过，种族屠杀硝烟尽散，血迹已干，但歧视仍存。从被白人警察残忍“跪杀”的黑人平民弗洛伊德，到身穿制服仍被无故殴打的黑人军官纳扎里奥，重复上演的悲剧一次次提醒人们：今日美国，明面上的奴隶制和种族隔离制度已成历史，但事实上的种族歧视依然广泛存在并愈发令人“无法呼吸”，种族平等之梦仍遥不可及。

　　2020年5月31日，在美国明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市，一名示威者被警察逮捕。新华社发（安格斯·亚历山大摄）

　　在经济领域，包括非裔在内的少数种族在就业、工资收入、经济状况等方面处于全方位的劣势地位。据美国劳工局统计，非裔的失业率通常为白人的两倍左右，非裔全职工作的周薪中位值平均比白人低近30%。

　　在司法领域，种族偏见亦是“肉眼可见”。美国全国免罪记录中心对1989年至2016年10月相关案例分析后得出结论，非裔美国人比白人更容易被错误判定为犯有谋杀罪、性侵犯、非法毒品活动等罪行。《洛杉矶时报》指出，杀害非裔比杀害白人面临死刑的可能性更低。联合国当代形式种族主义问题特别报告员认为，对于非裔美国人来说，美国的法律体系已无法解决种族不公与歧视。

　　更有甚者，有时非裔美国人连基本的生存权都难言保证。美国国家卫生研究院非裔免疫学家科比特表示，医院在呼吸机不足情况下会最先放弃对非裔的插管治疗。《华盛顿邮报》评论称，美国的抗疫行动成了“一场国家批准的屠杀”，它故意牺牲老年人、工人、非裔和拉美裔人口。

　　Some critics believe that the seeds of the tragic situation of black Americans were planted as early as when their ancestors were "shipped" to North America as goods, because they were not treated equally when they were born. "For African Americans, the United States was never great!"

　　Hate crimes are frequent. Asians have become "scapegoats" from "model citizens"!

　　Racial discrimination is not only directed against African-Americans who are living in a relatively difficult life, but even Asian-Americans who are self-disciplined and can be called "model citizens".

　　Historically, from the Chinese Exclusion Act to the surveillance of Southeast Asian communities after "9.11" … … Asian Americans have been suffering from racist attacks and all kinds of tangible and intangible discrimination.

　　On March 21, a demonstrator attended a rally in San Jose, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA, to protest against discrimination and hate crimes against Asians. (Xinhua News Agency, photo by Dong Xudong)

　　With the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, Asian Americans were taken as scapegoats and became victims of a new round of racist violence. Incidents of discrimination, harassment and violence against Asians are increasing. In March this year, US President Biden admitted that for many Asian Americans, it was a "year of living in fear" when they even took to the streets.

　　On March 16, a shooting incident occurred in Atlanta, USA, killing eight people, including six Asian women, but this is by no means an isolated case. Washington post website reported that in 2020, there were about 3,800 recorded hate attacks against Asians in the United States, including street slander, stabbing with a knife, and deliberate destruction of Asian shops. An Asian parliamentarian issued an appeal, "The Asian community is bleeding. We have been in pain and have been shouting for help."

　　Some experts believe that the surge in "hatred of Asia" is rooted in the deep-rooted racial discrimination and xenophobia against Asians in American history, long-term stereotypes and unprovoked conspiracy theories. In addition, Asian Americans are complex and diverse, and have certain differences in their political inclinations, which leads to their lack of voice in American political and social life. Although their political influence has gradually become apparent in recent years, they will still be regarded as "indifferent people" or "losers" in the political field. When they encounter injustice and infringement, Asians are considered to be "silent and forbearing", which also condones the surge of "hate crimes" against Asians to some extent.

　　Fighting for fairness but creating new injustice "reverse racial discrimination" caused controversy.

　　More ironically, compared with the discrimination against ethnic minorities, the relevant protection policies have produced the negative effect of "reverse racial discrimination": defending rights in the name of "racial equality" has led to "racial discrimination", which has caused dissatisfaction among relevant ethnic groups and caused considerable controversy in American society.

　　This kind of "reverse racial discrimination" is particularly evident in the field of higher education. It is reported that many outstanding Asian students have lost to white and minority competitors with very general conditions when applying for prestigious American schools. Some analysts pointed out that it is because the "Affirmative Action Act" enacted by the US Congress has taken care of ethnic minorities in terms of college enrollment in order to eliminate the social inequality caused by previous racial discrimination. However, some schools have imposed a mandatory proportion of students from certain ethnic groups, which has led to the controversy of "reverse racial discrimination".

　　According to the analysis, when famous schools think that the performance of Asian students is getting better and better, it will lead to an increasing proportion of Asians among the ethnic minorities recruited by schools, so they cancel the protection given to Asians by affirmative action policies and suppress Asians under the guise of affirmative action policies. The result of this "reverse discrimination" is that "a white person’s chances of being admitted are often higher than those of Asians with almost the same conditions or even better."

　　Some commentators pointed out that Asians are being discriminated against by American universities under the banner of fairness and equality. "It’s ridiculous that a policy that should have protected Asians has turned into a cover for discriminating against them."

　　It is a long way to go to eradicate "racist cancer"

　　"I have a dream that one day my four children will live in a country where they will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by their character." This is a dream of Martin Luther King.

　　More than 50 years ago, Martin Luther King’s famous speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial became a classic cry of the United States against racial discrimination and for equal rights. However, more than 50 years after his death, this "American dream" is still out of reach, and what I can hear is the wail of "I can’t breathe"!

　　On April 4, 2018, in Memphis, Tennessee, the people participated in the parade to commemorate the 50 th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. (Source: vision china)

　　US Vice President Harris said: "We must continue to work hard to combat racism and discrimination." Regrettably, the United States has always achieved little in controlling racism.

　　There are undoubtedly many reasons why the racial problem has become a chronic disease in American society.

　　From a historical perspective, racism runs through American history and is rooted in American genes. It can be called the "original sin" of American history, and it is very difficult to "get rid of the root cause".

　　As early as the colonial period, after the Anglo-Saxon white Protestants gained a dominant position in the political and social fields, they began to systematically implement the white supremacy-based policy in today’s United States. In the nearly 100 years after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the American government has taken away about 6 million square kilometers of land from the aborigines by various disgraceful means, accounting for about two-thirds of the land area of the United States. It can be said that the history of American territorial expansion is also the history of blood and tears of the aborigines.

　　The infamous slavery lasted for more than 200 years in the United States, which advertised as a beacon of human rights, which is even more bitter irony. Although the US government has successively abolished the relevant "evil laws", the trauma is irreparable, and the ubiquitous racial hatred and deep-rooted racist culture have been formed, which has become the main historical source of racial discrimination and conflict in the United States today. Former US President Barack Obama once said, "Discrimination … … Is still part of our genes. Society cannot erase everything that has existed for two or three hundred years overnight. "

　　From a practical point of view, racism has become an integral part of American social structure, but American state institutions and social systems have failed to eliminate racial discrimination, and the internal support of social systems and the inaction of state institutions have led to all-round discrimination against ethnic minorities.

　　In the United States today, all ethnic minorities in China are facing racial discrimination to varying degrees, and their discrimination, oppression and persecution are reflected in all aspects of political, economic, cultural and social life. "Skin color obviously plays a decisive role in determining the fate of Americans."

　　Some experts pointed out that since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the political system of the United States has been a racial hierarchy serving the upper and middle classes of whites, and it has not changed until now. To eliminate the chronic disease of racism, we need to eradicate it through profound social reforms, otherwise it will be difficult to get rid of it.

　　In addition, in recent years, for personal political purposes, some politicians not only have no intention to bridge the racial gap, but also regard identity politics and immigration policy as tools of political wrestling, which have played a very bad role in worsening racial relations.

　　Former US President Trump is a typical representative. In 2018, when he was then president of the United States, he questioned why the United States should accept immigrants from "cesspit" countries such as Haiti and African countries when discussing immigration reform with members of Congress, which triggered an uproar in international public opinion. In July 2019, Trump sent a series of tweets to attack four female members of the minority Democratic Party who were critical of him, saying that they should return to their ancestral country where they were "broken, withered and guilty".

　　After Freud’s incident, in the face of the protesters, Trump tweeted the words of a notorious racist in the 1960s, threatening to "shoot whenever there is looting", so that Twitter posted a warning of "beautifying violence" next to this tweet.

　　Some analysts believe that Trump’s purpose in playing the race card is to emotionally mobilize supporters and maintain and enhance the support rate of the basic disk. However, some politicians pointed out that this method "may be rewarded in the short term, but in the long run, it is destroying the United States and tearing American society."

　　For a long time, American politicians have claimed to be "defenders of human rights", but the domestic racial problems are hard to get back, which undoubtedly exposes its institutional and structural defects. The hypocritical nature of "American human rights" is undoubtedly prominent, and the "racial melting pot" where everyone is equal is a great irony!