Xiao Bushi and Condoleezza Rice looked embarrassed, they couldn't have imagined that Zhang Chen's condition would be this.

How long has it been since the Chinese Exclusion Act? Is it still meaningful to bring up the old things a hundred years ago?

If Zhang Chen hadn't told them the beginning and end of the Chinese Exclusion Act, they wouldn't have known what the bill was.

Xiao Bushi doesn't learn and has no skills, needless to say. Condoleezza Rice is a top student at the University of Denver, who once majored in American politics and only knows a little about this part of the bill.

This shows how unexistent the Chinese are in the political environment of the United States.

"Zack, I'm African-American, and the African-American policy of apartheid in the South wasn't completely abolished until the late fifties, and when I was a kid, I couldn't even go to the same school as a white man. So, I understand your feelings very well. Condoleezza Rice hurriedly said that the racial issue is a red line that cannot be touched in the United States in recent years, and of course Rice must take a stand as soon as possible.

"The Chinese Exclusion Act may be as much a mistake as apartheid in American history. In fact, as you just said, in 1943, these bills were repealed, which shows that Congress and society as a whole have realized the mistakes of the past and have made adjustments. Any ethnic group should look forward and blindly dwell on the past is not necessarily a favorable choice. You know, living in the past means dying. Condoleezza Rice knew very well the difficulty of Zhang Chen's request to be realized, she was on the side of Xiao Bushi, and of course she didn't want to accept Zhang Chen's proposal.

Xiao Bushi also nodded in agreement.

Hearing Rice's defense, a sneer appeared on the corner of Zhang Chen's mouth: "Condoliza, you are right, living in the past means death. But there is another saying, forgetting the past means betrayal!"

"A nation that is blindly immersed in the sufferings of the past and refuses to move forward certainly has no future. However, if a nation forgets its past sufferings, it has no dignity! A nation without dignity is destined to disappear into the long river of history. Zhang Chen said categorically.

"You just mentioned the liberation movement of the African Americans in the fifties, and in fact, since the Civil War in 1863, African Americans have been free people. So why was there still a black liberation movement in the fifties of the twentieth century? We all understand that theoretical equality is not real equality, and that compromise and self-deception do not earn respect. It is precisely because of the people who bravely fought for the fate of African Americans, such as Plessey, Rosa Parkes, Oliver Brown, Little Rock Nine, and Martin Luther King, Jr., that there is the inviolable dignity of black people in America today!"

"What Chinese Americans want is this dignity!" Zhang Chen's last sentence was loud, and his face was extremely serious.

Tang Miaomiao looked at Zhang Chen worriedly, she rarely saw Zhang Chen be so serious, Zhang Chen squeezed Tang Miaomiao's hand, signaled that he was fine, and continued to stare at the two.

Rice showed a little embarrassment on her face, and in her position, it was inevitable that she would be a little harsh when she heard Zhang Chen's words.

Condoleezza Rice is black, but he follows the traditional white elite route, and his three views are no different from the white upper class in the United States.

Most of the blacks in the United States, except for those who immigrated later, were descendants of black slaves.

In fact, black slaves are also divided into several different types, working in a chaotic manner, and the first type is the one who does not dare to resist, and the proportion is the largest.

The second type is the kind of people who have the spirit of resistance in their bones, even if the slave owner whips them, they can find a cheater and cheat and not work, and take revenge when they find an opportunity. Although there were few such people, they dominated the black liberation movement, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a typical representative of it.

As for the third type, it is the "black traitor", these people have been completely enslaved by the white slave owners, and they are on the side of the white people, helping the white slave owners to enslave their own kind, although their skin is black, but their hearts are white. Slave owners often treated these people more favorably, and even sent them to school to learn more advanced knowledge in order to create greater benefits for themselves.

Rice's ancestors are the third.

Rice was not a purebred black, and her great-grandmother bore five children to different slave owners. One of the girls was so loved by the slave owners that he sent her to school, and the Rice family began to gradually break away from the life of slaves. By her father's generation, she had completely broken away from the black class and became a member of the ruling class, serving as president of the University of Denver.

Just imagine, how could Rice, who was born in this background, not be embarrassed when he heard Zhang Chen's tirade on national liberation?

Xiao Bushi's eyes flashed: "Zack, from my point of view, of course I sympathize with the tragic experience of the Chinese a hundred years ago, and I am also very sorry. However, you know, it is not easy to get a congressional apology, and besides, it has been so long since this matter, and it is difficult to get enough attention because it only involves the Chinese ethnic group. I'm not sure if it will be passed by Congress. If I am elected, I can personally apologize to the Chinese Americans, which is something I can promise. ”

Xiao Bushi is completely playing tricks, and apologizing in his personal name and apologizing publicly in Congress are completely two different concepts.

Apologizing in the name of a person, even if the person is the president, only shows the personal attitude of the president. However, the apology in the name of Congress represents the collective reflection and recognition of mistakes by the American ruling class, and it also represents that Chinese Americans have formed a political force in the United States that cannot be ignored, so that all constituencies will no longer despise the power of Chinese Americans, so as to fight for more rights and interests of Chinese Americans as a whole.

This apology is not just an attitude, but the overall interests of the ethnic group represented in it are unimaginably huge.

Actually, this is also a good thing for Mr. Bushi. It will be of great benefit to future re-election elections, and even to the image of the Republican Party among the people. Zhang Chen's face suddenly relaxed and smiled.

Zhang Chen said so much, Xiao Bushi's favorite thing to listen to was this sentence, and his eyes couldn't help but reveal an interested gaze.

"When I was studying American history, I found something very interesting that a few decades ago, the political positions of the Republican and Democratic parties were diametrically opposed to what they are now. Zhang Chen had a relaxed smile on his face, "It was the Republican Party that was the first to promote racial equality in the United States, and it was the Republican Party that contributed the most to the black liberation movement. Both the abolitionist President Lincoln, the pro-Ku Klux Klan president, and President Eisenhower, who abolished apartheid, were Republicans, while the Democrats supported segregation and racial discrimination both during the Civil War and in Little Rock. ”

At that time, the Republican Party represented advanced, egalitarian, and liberal political ideas, and this period was also the most glorious period of the Republican Party, with 12 of the 18 presidents from Lincoln to Eisenhower being Republican presidents. Zhang Chen did a lot of homework beforehand, such as a few treasures.

Xiao Bushi is a good listener, without the slightest intention of interjecting, listening attentively.

Roosevelt's 100-day New Deal gradually changed the Democratic Party's tendency to neoliberalism, which was more advanced, equal, and liberal than the Republican Party, and established a New Deal coalition that included ethnic minorities on the one hand, and the people at the bottom through the expansion of social welfare on the other, completely changing the vote base structure of the Democratic Party. To be precise, the Democratic Party stole minority voters who originally supported the Republican Party from the Republican Party. ”

In order to make up for the loss of the bottom vote base, the Republican Party mistakenly began to woo the traditional white southern plantation owners, so that, on the one hand, the Republican Party's governing philosophy became more and more conservative, and on the other hand, it also lost the moral high ground in the moral outlook of modern society. ”

"Beginning with President Reagan, the Republican Party seems to have begun to realize this, deliberately leaning toward the Democratic Party on the issue of race. But because the Cold War was at a critical time, and the question of race took a back seat and was not so urgent, the transformation was not complete. ”

In the past few years of Crichton's administration, the social status of African Americans has been unprecedentedly improved, leaving little room for the Republican Party to operate. And if the Republican Party continues to do nothing on race, it will lose not only the African-American vote, but also the young white vote base in the future. In other words, if we don't pay attention to racial issues, the Republican Party will lose not only the present, but also the future!"

Everyone can feel that the traditional morality of the current society has indeed changed, and young whites have begun to pay more attention to racial equality issues, and some whites are even more radical than people of color. Society as a whole also generally has a positive attitude towards this part of the population, and the word equal rights has become part of political correctness to some extent.

"African-Americans are now the hard vote of the Democratic Party, and Republicans want to turn the minds of young people on race, and now there are only two options left — Chinese Americans and Native Americans. Zhang Chen's eyes flashed slightly, "How to choose, this doesn't seem to be a problem anymore, right?"

(End of chapter)