the pace car that wasn't, because the UAW refused to allow a foreign car pace the 1991 Indy 500. Even though it was a Dodge Stealth. How's that for plain old racism?
He was a Chinese-American that was murdered by two autoworkers that assumed he was of Japanese descent and decided that killing him was adequate retaliation for the pain that Japanese cars were inflicting to American manufacturers. To make things even worse none of the murderers was convicted for the crime and just received fines... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Vincent_Chin
Unfortunately our country has a very long and detailed history when it comes to racism.
it really has had a horrible, long, history of racism... against anyone that has a skin color other than pale white. Which is weird for what is mostly a group of religious based people who worship a Jewish guy, Jesus, and his mom, very Jewish. I think it's based on people being forced out of their comfort zone, and people with different languages, skin colors, heights, eyes and nose shapes. Oh, and hair too. Which is a bit weird because all those pioneers/immigrants from the old countries showed up on the shores of New England having been passengers with people who spoke different languages (even the Pilgrims were a mix of puritans, quakers, and English. Later peoples were shipped over and went through Ellis Island with far different and father distanced origin countries. Anyway, it's a damn shame, as people from other countries are far more interesting than the people you grow up with, and women from other countries are far sexier, with cool accents, than the women from your own country. Which brings me around to Vincent Chin, who I've never heard of. But as I work with a guy from Cambodia, whose childhood was living off the land and hiding from the government, who made it to the USA in a ship, and a guy from Ethiopia, and a guy from the Philippines, and my buddy Ricardo, who made it over the border from Mexico - legally, and it's quite the "melting pot" we were taught about in grade school. I'm not surprised that the murderers got away with it, for a reason I don't understand, America has had a long history of hating the Chinese. Well, then there's Pearl Harbor, and the hatred of the UAW over their own crummy quality since the mid 60s through the nineties, being redirected towards the Japanese car makers by willfully self loathing assholes that couldn't fix their union bullshit. Hell, did you know it was illegal to even marry outside your own race until the 70s? And every war we've had has just amped up the propaganda of hating some other race, the North Koreans, the Northern Vietnamese, the Muslims, Iraqis, etc etc. Even on a local level, people are hating on the local minority, and seem to have done that since the Mayflower landed. The Natives were a target, the Puritans hated and tortured the Quakers, the Amish and Mennonites are the targets of the regular Americans, the migrant Mexican agriculture workers are still targeted by whites, and whites are pissed off every day to "press 1 for English". This world is so damn ugly.
Have you ever heard of Vincent Chin?
ReplyDeleteHe was a Chinese-American that was murdered by two autoworkers that assumed he was of Japanese descent and decided that killing him was adequate retaliation for the pain that Japanese cars were inflicting to American manufacturers.
To make things even worse none of the murderers was convicted for the crime and just received fines... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Vincent_Chin
Unfortunately our country has a very long and detailed history when it comes to racism.
it really has had a horrible, long, history of racism... against anyone that has a skin color other than pale white. Which is weird for what is mostly a group of religious based people who worship a Jewish guy, Jesus, and his mom, very Jewish.
DeleteI think it's based on people being forced out of their comfort zone, and people with different languages, skin colors, heights, eyes and nose shapes. Oh, and hair too.
Which is a bit weird because all those pioneers/immigrants from the old countries showed up on the shores of New England having been passengers with people who spoke different languages (even the Pilgrims were a mix of puritans, quakers, and English.
Later peoples were shipped over and went through Ellis Island with far different and father distanced origin countries.
Anyway, it's a damn shame, as people from other countries are far more interesting than the people you grow up with, and women from other countries are far sexier, with cool accents, than the women from your own country.
Which brings me around to Vincent Chin, who I've never heard of.
But as I work with a guy from Cambodia, whose childhood was living off the land and hiding from the government, who made it to the USA in a ship, and a guy from Ethiopia, and a guy from the Philippines, and my buddy Ricardo, who made it over the border from Mexico - legally, and it's quite the "melting pot" we were taught about in grade school.
I'm not surprised that the murderers got away with it, for a reason I don't understand, America has had a long history of hating the Chinese.
Well, then there's Pearl Harbor, and the hatred of the UAW over their own crummy quality since the mid 60s through the nineties, being redirected towards the Japanese car makers by willfully self loathing assholes that couldn't fix their union bullshit.
Hell, did you know it was illegal to even marry outside your own race until the 70s? And every war we've had has just amped up the propaganda of hating some other race, the North Koreans, the Northern Vietnamese, the Muslims, Iraqis, etc etc.
Even on a local level, people are hating on the local minority, and seem to have done that since the Mayflower landed. The Natives were a target, the Puritans hated and tortured the Quakers, the Amish and Mennonites are the targets of the regular Americans, the migrant Mexican agriculture workers are still targeted by whites, and whites are pissed off every day to "press 1 for English".
This world is so damn ugly.