This remark “China has a 5,000 history of cheating and stealing. Some things will never change…” was made in a tweet in 12\/3\/2020 by Tennessee’s Senator Marsha Blackburn. Such remark is absurd and show the complete ignorance of the speaker and would normally be dismissed if it didn’t come the mouth of a U.S. senator.<\/p>\n
Senator Blackburn is making an accusation against the Chinese that its 5,000 years of history of great accomplishments was made up of cheating and stealing, and then followed by a sentence that insults all Chinese who are still to be born in the future. Any reasonable person would recognize that such a remark must have come from a person who either has no brains or was said intentionally to damage the reputation and integrity of a country and its people with utmost discrimination, with absolute zero concern for the harm that it could do to the people of the intended remark, and for the negative consequences and actions that it could generate to the people of the U.S. and the people of the world. Yet, no apology has come from Senator Blackburn and no refutations have come from American political leaders.<\/p>\n
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This says something about the state of the American society and its ability to distinguish truths from lies, and how the goal of getting votes can override other concerns of honesty, civility, truths, facts, and common decency. Unfortunately, it is the kind of behavior we see more and more being displayed in the American political environment, at every level of the political spectrum. This is manifested in rising hate crimes against Asian Americans, black Americans and other minorities, unfair and illegal charges against Chinese American researchers and academics, various proposed housing ownership laws that will be challenged to be unconstitutional, unfair and illegal trade sanctions, and the whole demonic treatment of China and Chinese by the U.S. government and its mass media. It results in an atmosphere that all actions are legitimate as long it can continue to maintain American dominance in the world, instead considering whether the actions are fair and good for the world.<\/p>\n
Unless this environment makes a drastic change, not only that the U.S will not be able to continue to be a country that all Americans can be proud of, the country will continue its recent decline. All American need to have a wake-up call to examine our country critically and be willing to speak up and take actions to demand a change. Chinese Americans and Asian Americans in general, must unite to fight all these discriminatory laws and actions at various state levels, the federal level, and the international level, and join forces with other progressive forces locally, nationally, and internationally. Various organizations who have not taken a stand on these issues that should of concern to them need to take actions now. One of the things that need to be done is to publicly criticize Blackburn and work to make sure that she will not be reelected to a second term as the senator from Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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