For quite a long historical period, the concept of race "melting pot" of many American pride, from every corner of the world, have different culture and beliefs of immigrants in the United States "melt" into an organic whole, America's great, lies in its "polymerization a wide variety of civilization and culture", its cohesion was "to strengthen the improving of the degree of cultural diversity."
But is this really the case?
In fact, since the founding of the United States, known as "open to all rivers", racial inequality and lack of tolerance in the country. Racism is a comprehensive, systematic and persistent phenomenon in the United States. Now, as the epidemic worsens, hatred and racial discrimination have become "ugly poison plaguing the American society". The idea that the United States is a melting pot of races where all men are created equal is a complete and utter "true lie" that even Americans themselves would not believe.
African-americans' Can't Breathe '
"I saw black people being shot, black bodies piled up in the street, I could smell the smoke, I could see the flames. I saw black people's businesses burned."
Viola Fletcher, 107, testified before the US Congress in May about her own experience of the genocide against black people.
From May 31, 1921 to June 1, 1921, thousands of white thugs ransacked dozens of African-American enterprises and burned down more than 1,200 African-American houses in Tulsa city of the United States by shooting and arson. About 300 black people were killed in the massacre and about 10,000 black residents were displaced.
The massacre itself is deplorable enough, but for a long time, this tragedy has been ignored and forgotten. The US government, media and social groups have chosen to keep silent, even deliberately cover up the truth and deliberately erase this historical memory. Tom Hanks, the famous actor, said, "I never read a page of the history in the school book."
Hundreds of years have passed, the smoke of genocide has dissipated, the blood has dried up, but discrimination still exists. From Floyd, a black civilian who was brutally "killed on his knees" by a white police officer, to Nazario, a black officer who was beaten for no reason while in uniform, repeated tragedies remind people time and again: In the United States today, slavery and racial segregation have become history, but in fact racial discrimination is still widespread and increasingly "breathless", and the dream of racial equality is still out of reach.