Chapter 1200: Reasons that cannot be refused

Li Yanan lowered his head and pondered for a while and raised his own question: "Zhenhua, if our Chinese ethnic group’s first political show will concentrate all votes on the Republican Party represented by Bush, does that mean that in the future? , Shall we all stand in this camp?"
"Of course not." Tan Zhenhua replied categorically: "Our goal is to improve the political ecological environment of the Chinese ethnic group in the United States. Therefore, we only speak for ourselves, and our first political show played the biggest role, in fact. It is to show our strength to both sides!"
He paused and watched Li Yanan's increasingly confused eyes and explained: "Compared with the two major political parties in the United States, the Republican Party is more conservative and a firmer supporter of "white supremacy", although they will also To attract some people of color, but it is basically to behave, to maintain a "politically correct" show in public opinion, and even if individual people of color with outstanding ability can get high positions in the Republican camp, it is only possible It is the black people who account for the largest number of colored races in the country. They have nothing to do with other races. From the bottom of their hearts, they are skeptical of all colored races. Just like this canvassing campaign against Chinese descent, everyone just regarded it as It’s just a deal; the Democratic Party’s performance in this area will be slightly better. Of course, in my opinion, there is not much difference in its essence. There is only a difference between 50 steps and 100 steps. Join the Democratic Party to gain more voice and room for maneuver, so brother, in the end, what our ethnic group needs is to have its own spokesperson, to be able to speak out in the highest authority of the United States."
Li Yanan nodded silently, thought about it and asked, "According to your assumptions, do we need to run for Congress?"
Tan Zhenhua nodded and said: "This is a long-term strategy. If the entire Chinese ethnic group wants to have a more influential voice in American society, this step is necessary. In view of the different election systems between the Senate and the House of Representatives, I think , We should put our first goal on the House of Representatives with 435 seats. Senate seats are allocated according to 2 people in each state. For California with a population of 40 million, our current chances are too small, and the election of the House of Representatives is According to the proportion of the population in the electoral district, California has at least 30 seats. On average, 700,000 votes can elect a member of the House of Representatives. As long as all of our Chinese descent can unite together, based on the number of ethnic groups, California has a chance to win 700,000 votes."
Li Yanan fell into contemplation again, and after a while, she said: "Zhenhua, I understand all the principles you said, but there is a real difficulty. You know, even within our Chinese community, the struggle between each other is Very powerful, and I’m just the leader of the most powerful society in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Although I have connections with all Chinese societies, I can’t even imagine that I can do my best. Chinese, but I think that is far from enough unless..."
"Unless, you have a reason that no one can refuse to convince them." Tan Zhenhua said: "Brother, do you mean that?"
Li Yanan nodded, and it’s not surprising that his junior can casually say what he said before him. After all, he has been accustomed to Tan Zhenhua’s foresight and wisdom for so many years, and he also knew that, next, Junior brother must have been prepared for this a long time ago.
Sometimes he even felt that if he could stay with this junior fellow all the time, he would be able to live it without thinking...
Sure enough, he heard Tan Zhenhua speak: "The reason is actually ready. You only need to tell them that to promote this process, after our agent is elected as a member of Congress, the first bill that needs to be submitted is that the abolition of the United States The Chinese Exclusion Act for more than a century of Chinese Americans."
The "Chinese Exclusion Act" is a bill signed by the United States on May 6, 1882. It was based on the 1880 amendment to the Burlingame Treaty (Burlingame Treaty), and Congress quickly implemented this decision. The bill is a response to a large number of Chinese people who moved out of China due to the internal turmoil at the time and moved to the western part of the United States because they had the opportunity to get railway construction work. It was the first immigration law passed in the United States for specific ethnic groups.
The formulation of this bill has a special background: since 1848, with the gradual rise of the gold rush in California, the mines required a lot of labor. At that time, it was the troubled China. Therefore, countless Chinese people voluntarily or were forced or were I cheated out of the country, traveled thousands of miles to the United States, this completely unfamiliar land, and began to work hard. This period of large Chinese population input lasted until the construction period of several key processes in the United States, such as the California Gold Rush, as in the previous article. Introduced, the Pacific Railroad Project "under every sleeper lies a Chinese laborer".
However, with the end of major construction projects in the late 19th century and the decline of the gold rush, the number of laborers needed in the United States began to drastically decrease, and the hard-working nature of the Chinese made them willing to work for lower incomes. This is what the United States calls " The
nativists
seem to undoubtedly deprive them of employment opportunities and impose all the guilt on the Chinese. They began to physically assault the Chinese workers and even jointly force them to expel them. The Chinese were forced to lose their jobs. Gathered in a newspaper group to get warm and moved into the fringe area of ​​the city to discuss life. The most important move-in area is now San Francisco Chinatown, and this has created the largest Chinese community outside of Asia.
With the passage of time, the evil deeds of the "nativists" in the United States intensified and gradually rose to the height of the mainstream society in the United States. By 1878, the Congress decided to enact and pass the "Chinese Exclusion Act", but it was met by the US at that time. President Hayes’ veto, but this did not dispel the determination of the supporters of the "Act", but aroused their arrogance. They took various actions to promote this obviously discriminatory bill. During China’s craze, California even announced in 1881 that March 6 of that year would be used as a holiday for large-scale demonstrations to support the enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Finally in 1882, the infamous "Chinese Exclusion Act" was resubmitted by Republican Senator John F. Miller and passed in Congress. This time it was finally approved by the president and became a The official U.S. law, and this is the first and only time in U.S. history that a restrictive and discriminatory bill targeting a certain race has been passed!
(Before the U.S. Civil War, the Personal Restriction Act against slaves in southern plantations did not restrict race. In fact, there were a large number of non-black slaves in U.S. southern plantations.)
After the passage of the bill, it greatly restricted the freedom of Chinese people to enter and leave the United States and to stay and move in the United States. Therefore, most Chinese families faced the choice between staying in the United States alone or returning to China to reunite with their families. Newspapers throughout the United States, especially California, began. Smearing and accusing the Chinese have led to many problems such as white unemployment. The police also arrested the Chinese on various "unnecessary" charges, forcing the entire Chinese community to become more and more closed and away from the mainstream American society.
The most important thing is that this bill was only a provisional bill when it was approved in 1882, but 10 years later, in 1892, the bill was extended by the Geary Act (Gary Act), and there was no expiry date!
In other words, even now, this discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act is still valid, and it is still a sword of Damocles hanging on the heads of all Mi Hua people!