Oct 01
I’ve never really felt the effects of racism personally. Sure, there are the racial stereotypes, but I feel weird when people refer to me as ‘a person of color’ and call me an ally or something like that. Racism has never felt like a problem for me.
So going through the book, Asian American-History: A Very Short Introduction, I was quite amazed at the recency of some of the developments in civil rights issues for Asian-Americans. Considering that it looks like the timeline for black-American rights and Asian-American rights were aligned at times, it’s rather strange that we’ve moved to a place where Asian-Americans are doing much better than black-Americans, who seem to be continually shafted by society even today.