I recently finished reading “The Girl Who Wrote in Silk” by Kelli Estes. I learned something about American history that I didn’t know.
In the 1880s, after Chinese immigrants had helped build our railroads, other Americans and Canadians decided the Chinese were no longer welcome.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Geary Act of 1892 discriminated against them. But more horrifically, many Chinese people were killed. Much like the Native Americans, the Chinese were deemed too different to live among us European Americans.
I wanted to share this piece of history. The people writing history books decide what they want us to learn, often leaving out things they would rather forget.
None of us should forget that discrimination has been happening for centuries. It is up to us to change that.
Looking forward to the day that differences are celebrated!
