I have a lot of frustrating feelings about this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/25/coronavirus-is-inspiring-anti-asian-racism-this-is-our-political-awakening/#click=https://t.co/I3mqRu7m4K

I see a lot of pieces like this and it bothers me it took THIS for many Asian Americans to acknowledge US racism. I know the model minority myth is powerful but Black children get murdered on camera regularly. Why when hypervisibility is on your community that racism is now real?

I experienced my first hate crime at 5 and racism wasn't something I needed to be "awaken" because it was already my current reality. Anti-Blackness is so pervasive and common that it's a cultural norm. Black people have fought everyone including other POC to change that.

It's particularly frustrating when Asian Americans are anti-Black because the US has made them national targets before too. With World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and even with policies like the Chinese Exclusion Act and several tariffs. Anti-asian racism isn't new.

But POC solidarity has never occurred. Prominent Asian American groups coaxed by the model minority myth have fought against Black people during the Civil Rights Movement, Affirmative Action and Black Lives Matter when it's all in their best interest too.

Older Black folks resent this and have returned that bigotry which is also wrong. Younger generations are mending those relationships but it's still sucks when grown folks say "I never seen blatant racism before" when blatant Anti-Blackness can come from your own elders.

I will continue to support Asian Americans and their businesses during this time of injustice and after but I'm pessimistic that once the microscope shifts back to Black people we will be forgotten again in exchange for a false entry into white America.

Also white people please do not engage with this thread. It's so not your table.