Instigator of Racial Discrimination

 2022.7.25.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/15486

A few days ago, Asian Americans, who were gathered from all around the country, held a rally in Washington, calling for an end to the soaring racial animus and acts of violence during the period of COVID-19.

Upholding placards “Stop Asian Hate”, the protesters strongly demanded the government to eradicate the acts of unfair discrimination against ethnic minorities including Asian Americans.

According to the data released by an organization, the number of the cases of hate crime committed in the U.S. between March 2020 and the end of 2021 stands at more than ten thousand in total.

Here’s a case which epitomizes the seriousness of the situation. In March last year, a 21-year-old white male carrying a gun attacked Asian-owned service facilities, killing several Asian women.

Still, Asian Americans are often subjected to insults and attacks in public places. For this reason, the elderly people are afraid to go out, parents hesitate to send their children to school and workers are always in fear on their way to work and home.

Asians are not the only victims of such hate crime in the U.S.

All sorts of racial discrimination against African Americans, Latin Americans, Native Americans and other ethnic minorities which are being perpetrated for a single reason that they have different color, have now become an endemic of the American society, much to the consternation of the international community.

Not long ago, a black young man was brutally killed on the street, by more than 60 bullets mass fired by the police. His fate demonstrated once again that the ethnic minorities can never be freed from pain and violent death as long as the system of racial discrimination based on white supremacy persists in the U.S.

Several decades have passed since Martin Luther King inspired the civil rights movement for the black people with his famous speech “I have a dream” in 1960s. His dream, however, has not come true until today. Instead, racism and acts of discrimination are getting worse. This is the gloomy reality of the U.S. society.

The U.S. included in the Declaration of Independence a passage that all men are given equal rights and also signed the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination adopted in 1965. But this is nothing more than a political gesture to deceive its people and the international society.

The problem is that acts of racial discrimination which occur one after another almost every day in the U.S. are out-and-out man-made calamities born out of the tacit approval and patronage of the government.

This is proved by the fact that cases of attacks against the Asians are increasing in great numbers in the U.S., because the American politicians massively spread “political virus” of racial discrimination in a bid to deflect the criticism on them and shirk off their responsibility for the huge human and material loss caused by the Covid-19 crisis.

The white policemen, who are directly responsible for murdering black people, are getting away with murder and freely strutting around the street. All this is unthinkable apart from the connivance of the government.

The reality clearly shows that the American politicians chanting “democracy” and “protection of human rights” are incapable of remedying the acts of racial discrimination prevalent in their own houses. It also shows that they are heinous instigators of stirring them up.