美国新冠疫情日记5/30 Our Backyard Is On Fire

Our Backyard Is On Fire

Protests spread across the U.S. over George Floyd’s death, the unarmed black man who was pinned to the ground by the knee of a white officer and ultimately died. The fired police officer, responsible for the man’s death, Derek Chauvin, has been arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Floyd.

Protests erupted in cities across America and turned violent as demonstrators clashed with the police and set fires. In many cases, the demonstrators looted many of the nearby stores including the offices of CNN headquarters in Atlanta. Mayor Keisha Bottoms urged the protestors to be calm. In Houston, Mayor Turner said in a news conference that Houston is the home of George Floyd. There is much real pain in our city because of the way he died and people want to express their feelings and lift up his name.

Today, Floyd’s case really represents a huge social problem in our society. In the last 70 years or more since the end of WWII, hundreds of thousands of new immigrants have come to America looking for the American Dream. Many talented people brought their families and settled down here and became U.S. citizens. This is the main reason all of us have worked to build this country and make it a super power, not just politically, but also economically.

In the past several decades, many African-Americans and minority groups still were not given equal opportunity in education or economically. Many years later, the gap between the rich and the poor just got wider.

Today, the Trump administration announced the America First policy. We are starting to withdraw from many international organizations including WHO. And the issue in Hong Kong has now become a huge conflict between the U.S. and China.

As this pandemic continues to attack our land, the whole economy is crumbling. We really need a leader who can lead us to a brighter future.

There are more than twenty million Asian Americans in this country. Most of us came here after the end of WWII. We settled down here as our permanent home. Today, as we see the country facing our biggest challenge, we need to join hand-to-hand to help our neighbors, our community and our country.

Let us pray - God bless America.

我们的后院起火了

乔治佛洛伊德被警察虐死事件昨晚在全美各大城市激起多处之游行，并造成许多掳抢商家及縦火事件，包括亚特兰大CNN 总部都被攻击，造成两人丧生之不幸，该市女市长波顿斯呼吁大家保持冷静，要学习金恩博士之精神，决不可抢劫商家縦火洩怒，休斯敦市长唐纳在会上紧急要求示威者不要破坏公物，他深切了解示威者之忿怒，但是全体市民是无辜的，昨晚警方已经逮捕了二百多名示威者。

虽然检方已经对这名残酷的施暴警察沙文以三级谋杀罪被起诉，但是还是难息众怒，此次不幸事件正说明了我们整个社会之病态及隐忧。

自二次大战结束以来，过去七十年是美国领导世界的时代，各国精英都千方百计奔向美国，由于宽松之移民政策，每年有数以百万计之非法或合法之移民来到此地，为美利坚共和国创造了第一强国和世界警察的地位。我们是一个人人有机会出人头地的国家，不幸的是，生活在底层社会之少数族裔，因经济条件等诸多原因，无法接受良好之教育，大多数更靠政府救济，久而久之，社会上贫富悬殊越来越大，公共财富分配不均，失业人口严重，当然会导致社会问题。