IS Civil Rights Speech
“It’s not fair” …the final words of an innocent U.S. citizen that was judged solely from appearances. This man was Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American who was “severely beaten in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park, Michigan during June, 1982”.5 Subsequently, he died four days later, the date of which he was originally supposed to be married. That once planned-to-be day became his last as he laid on his deathbed due to two men, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, who committed this homicide due to “U.S. auto manufacturing jobs being lost to Japan”.5 The two mistakenly identified Chin as Japanese, and begun to throw racial slurs such as “jap”, “chink”, and “nip”, but they did not stop there. Soon, they pulled out a baseball bat and repeatedly beat his skull. *Scrunch! There were bits and pieces of brain matter spread out on the concrete,
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The main hindrance faced upon was the barriers of both culture and language. The United States Commission on Civil Rights even concluded in their report Civil Rights Issues Facing Asian-Americans in the 1990's that “immigrants who speak little or no English are frequently denied equal access to a decent education and the voting booth and are treated unfairly by the police and the courts” and that “There has been a widespread failure of government at all levels and of the nation's public schools to provide for the needs of immigrant Asian-Americans”.1 Overall, these reflect the transgressions of the U.S. government with the handling of Asian-American immigrants; they are “pets” chained down by the innermost workings of their owners and collars. America labels their pet “dog” and later expects the animal to be fully trained, even without the resources and time necessitated. Nothing comes out of that besides ruined expectations and