The years 2020-2021 have been riddled with disturbing and unprecedented incidents, such as the death of George Floyd, which sparked the Black Lives Matter campaign, the raid on the capitol in Washington D.C.,an increase in bigotry and brutality against the Asian population and many more . The years 2020 and 2021 have been very frustrating and perplexing for many people throughout the world filled with challenging obstacles that we had to face and overcome. The World Health organization declared Codiv-19 a worldwide pandemic in March 2020, forcing the whole world to close down and quarantine in their homes as the pandemic was being monitored. As the cases of Covid-19 grew exponentially, we were all worried, panicked, or in mourning for their loved ones who passed away from covid or were hospitalized.Because of the pandemic, many countries around the world have imposed stringent laws that must be followed in order to protect themselves from the virus. During quarantine all students had to stay home and learn from online using apps like google classroom or Zoom which in the beginning made many students happy because they had to stay home and not really pay attention i myself was one of them but when the cases rose exponentially all i saw on the news was the number of deaths increasing every single day which made me very concerned for the safety for me and my family and it also made me emotionally unstable overthinking about everything always getting paranoid when my mom or my sister had any problems such as headache or stomach ache, watching the number of deaths increase more and more as time passed didn’t help either but my parents always reassured me and as time flew i graduated high school and started college which was weird because it was still all online and i would have never guessed that my first year in college would be me studying in my own house. At this point I stopped overthinking everything and started to relax since the cases were decreasing and everything was slowly getting back to normal. However, as the number of cases of covid decreased and everything started to return to normal, hate crimes against Asian Americans rose to the point that they threatened the lives of Asian Americans. This caused thousands of people to rally all around the country to raise concern of the racial injustice that Asian Americans have faced. from 2020 to 2021 Asian hate crime has increased by 145% and the overall hate crime dropped by 6%( Anti-Asian Prejudice March 2021 Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism). Many people have experienced stress, rage, sorrow, and other negative emotions as a result of the pandemic but some instead of coping with it properly they needed someone to let their anger out causing the increase in all the violence and harassment towards Asian Americans even now as the pandemic is slowly coming down people are still attacking Asian American. On April 26 2021 a 61 year old man Yao Pan Ma was violently attacked, he was pushed down and got kicked repeatedly in the head when all he did was collect bottles in his grocery cart to earn some money and now because of this Yao Pan Ma is in a coma. This is very disturbing to me and it makes me sad that some people think attacking an elderly person till he is in critical condition is ok
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Hey Yeshi, I love your piece! I agree that at the start of 2020 it was very frustrating because of the murder of George Floyd and now in 2021, there is racism against Asian Americans. I agree with you that I also felt relieved we didn’t have school at the start of march because of the pandemic. I love your piece so far, but I think you can add some personal obstacles that have affected you during the pandemic. I think you should go more in detail on why triggers you about the Asian American attacks that have recently been happening. Overall, I love that you added informative research.
I agree the year 2020 has sparked an increase in racism. The murder of George Floyd opened everyone’s eyes to the severity of the situation in America. The increase in police brutality is terrible for society and if it’s not fixed we are on the fast track to dystopia. We cannot be a society till all of us are treated as equals.