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when are asian-americans ever going to confront anti-blackness in our communities instead of siding with oppressors?? the entire myth of the model minority was created in order to antagonize black & latinx ppl and we’ve just...allowed that to persist? encouraged it even?
george floyd’s murder reminds me so much of akai gurley’s murder back in 2016, in which an asian-american cop (peter liang) shot & killed a black man. back then there were so many protests by pea-brained asian americans who insisted that liang was the real victim and I am just...
fucking appalled by that. AA (esp. east asian) communities are so spellbound by surface-level issues like, i don’t know, being represented in media, and we are knowingly turning a blind eye to systemic issues that black and brown ppl face and pretending that there’s progress-
being made. “yellow peril supports black power” has proven to be absolutely hollow in the past several decades. anti-blackness is knitted into the fabric of AsAm history and it makes me so angry!! fuck!!!
