Racial injustice started a long time ago and still happens today. Asian racial injustice is shown in 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act, which did not allow the Chinese to travel to the United States. Racial injustice is presented in the story Leaves front the mental portfolio of an Eurasian when a Chinese family moved to a community of Whites. The Whites are judgmental about this because the Chinese are a different race. You can tell in the story they treat the Chinese characters differently because school is different for them, job opportunities are unequal, and they are treated very poorly. There is also injustice shown in the article about the Black Lives Matter Protest. During that protest Black people are …show more content…
It is shown in Leaves front the mental portfolio of an Eurasian because the White kids verbally abuse the new Chinese children because they are a different race. It is also present in Black Lives Matter Is Democracy in Action because the colored families are often wrongly accused of crimes they did not commit and as an extra consequence, they get barred from public housing. Injustice among races is still in the United States’ society because people are not given equal rights between different races. Another example of racial injustice can be demonstrated in a minority person’ employment. In a passage from Leaves front the mental portfolio of an Eurasian, a Chinese mom was talking to her boss and he was making fun of the Chinese, not realizing that she was Chinese. Here is another statement that proves employment was unequal for the Chinese. “The Americans, having for many years manifested a much higher regard for the Japanese than for the Chinese, several half Chinese young men and women, thinking to advance themselves both and show in business sense, pass as Japanese.” This goes to show how racial injustice is unequal in the workplace to the Chinese how they are mistreated. Jones goes on about black people in jail again describing how the colored citizens care for their fellow colored people and showing how they want to help stop racial injustice to prove a point. This is proven when she says, “the fight to end cash bail was bolstered by Mama’s Bail Out Day, a campaign that is the brainchild of the Atlanta organizer Mary Hooks, a director of Southerners on New Ground, a queer social-justice organization. The organizers raised over $1 million to bail out more than 100 low-income black women on Mother’s Day this year. The Movement for Black Lives umbrella group oversaw the effort by pulling in local bail-reform groups”. There are a lot of black people are in jail. A lot of colored people are