美國新冠疫情日記06/15 We Need To Be Calm And Protect This Great Nation

We Need To Be Calm And Protect This Great Nation

In the last three months because of the Coronavirus pandemic, our community has suffered so much pain and lost so many people, and we still are feeling so much uncertainty.

Last week there was another tragedy in Atlanta, Georgia. A twenty-nine year old black man, Rayshard Brooks, was fatally shot by officers in a struggle following a field sobriety test. Authorities said the lone man had grabbed an officer’s Taser gun, but was running away when he was shot. Mayor Lane said she did not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force. Police chief Erika Shields immediately resigned, but still couldn’t calm the people.

Recent unrest in this country is not just a simple conflict between police force and the citizens. This is a long-standing social issue in our nation. When we look at our school system, the poor school districts don’t have enough resources to teach the students adequately. A lot of them come from single parent or broken family homes. Many can’t even get a high school diploma and don’t expect to go to college to get more education. When these groups of young people do not have the skills to get a job, they became a social problem. When Dr. Martin Luther King fought for civil rights in the1960’s, the political struggle just could not be improved. The black community living with this challenge is our responsibility to help each other and not just a slogan.

We are so angry and sad to watch some politicians use African, Asian and Chinese issues to gain their own political interest.

We are still urging all people to be united and to use all our effort to protect this great nation.

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近叁個月來，由于新冠疫情之襲撃，我們的社區遭受到空前的災難，許多商家被迫停業，疫情至今尚無法全面控制，大家都在憂慮之中。

我們還是要呼籲大家要鎮定應付大局，全國之動亂可能無法停止，就在上週，亞特蘭大警察又把一名黑人打死，從報告中得知二十七歲的黑人青年布魯斯因測出酒精出超，並拒捕和兩名警察扭打後搶走了雷射槍，在逃走後被警察連開叁槍被打死，雖然市長萊恩立即把開槍警察革職，局長雪爾同時辭職，但仍難息衆怒，上週末再度上演放火燒店之悲劇。

最近連串之警民沖突事件，暴露了我們社會長期存在之結構性問題，冰凍叁尺非一日之寒，自從民權運動領袖金恩博士在六十年代爭取平等民權以來，美國國民基本教育已經存在諸多不公平之現象，非裔社區之學校由于經費短缺，師資不佳，加上許多單親家庭無法兼顧孩童教育，能夠高中畢業者已不在多數，何況上大學者更是爲數不多，在此競爭激烈之社會，很難謀得較好之工作機會，久而久之，他們長期生活在社會之最下層，經濟條件愈來愈差，當然會造成社會之動亂之主因。