Working Title: Intervention Poster

This is my little post-it note about Asian hate. Recently, Asian hate has begun to become very troubling ever since the Coronavirus began. This stemmed from the fact that the Coronavirus began in Wuhan City in China. This hate began to escalate due to the new norms placed on Americans like the mask mandate, and the 4 month-long quarantine which felt like 4 years. Americans were angry and had to place the blame on someone so they began harassing Asians in public and assaulting in some instances. Many Americans felt suppressed because of the restrictions placed on them. However, it is never right to redirect that hate towards a group of people. "The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right. Yet the existing social conditions make the individual feel powerless" (Berger 148). Asian hate even occurred when I was a senior in high school. Around February, a month before the mandated quarantine began an individual began making fun of Asians for eating bats, I called her out on it saying that "she has no right to badmouth other cultures and to shut up. Your laugh sounds like the hyena you are." I'm sorry, she was the only person I had trouble with in high school, and her laugh really did sound like a hyena. Yet in a sudden moment of hopelessness, I had gained a sense of pride and courage. I wasn't at all the kind of person to talk back to people, but it just happened.

This was the first time I've actually felt like I had to do something, to intervene against what she was saying. I did explain that she was wrong afterward but the feeling of having to make a change stuck with me since that day, "these things present as opposed to represent is not an accident" (Thomson 98). I think that this quote means how political art presents the problem at hand, they are showing us that there is a problem and we need change. Asian hate or any racial-related hate in fact should be completely erased. We had the civil rights movement during the 60s which was one of the greatest movements in our history. We've identified the problem and made changes, how hard is it to change? 

hate is a virus - Posted outside my neighbor's fence

This one is outside by the light rail station on west side