So i've been reading up on Asian American history. Not the fantastic stuff we know about inventions, medicine, philosophy and more. But some of the darker stuff not a lot of us know about due to white washing and censorship of "US History". A thread:
In 1854 the US appealed case People V. Hall. This ruled that Chinese (and anyone who looked Chinese) could not testify against white citizens.
The Anti-Coolie Act of 1862: Imposed a monthly tax on Chinese immigrants seeking to do business in California. Why? Because white America was only letting perceived "wealthy" Asians in just to monetize them and make them broke.
The Naturalization Act of 1870: Allow African naturalized citizenship (although it was nearly impossible still), but denied citizenship to Chinese and forbade all immigration of Chinese Women (again not even citizenship BUT IMMIGRATION). This included anyone who looked Chinese
Chinese Massacre of 1871: Largest Mass Lynching in US History. 500 White and Hispanic peoeple ran thru Old Chinatown (in LA) and killed tens of "Chinamen".
1873 SF Chronicle: "The Chinese Invasion! They are Coming, 900,000 STRONG!"

This "invasion" has been carried on into 2 more centuries and is the root of 2019 anti-immigration "invasion" rhetoric.
Page Act of 1875: 1st restrictive immigration law in the US; prohibited entry of Chinese women for "population control"
1878 Case in Re Ah Yup: Ruled Asians INELIGBLE for naturalized citizenship as "Orientals" were unfit for participation in government
In 1879 the Constitution of California prohibited Chinese Employment
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: 1st and only law banning immigration of a specific ethnic or national group (those who grew up during 60yr ban mainly spoke English & identified with mainstream 1800s American culture)

Again. This affected anyone who looked "Chinese"
1885-1887 Anti-chines/Asian riots:
-Rock Springs Massacre
-Tacoma Riots
-Attack on Squak Valley Chinese Laborers
-Seattle Riot
-Hells Canyon Massacre
Geary Act of 1892: Extended Chinese Exclusion Act
1898 Treaty of Paris: US Annex of Philippines: "Now here is a unique spectacle - Filipinos fighting for liberty, American people fighting to give them liberty"

This is why there's a generational gap between Filipinos who Tagalog&Spanish and Filipinos who speak Tagalog&English
1898 US Annexation of Hawaii: Illegal joint resolution to overthrow the kingdom of Hawaii. In 2000 Sen. Akaka proposed to extend federal recognition of Native Hawaiians as a sovereign group
1900-1904 SF Bubonic Plague: French Barque carried plague, first struck San Francisco's Chinatown, reinforced anti-Chinese sentiment in all of CA(History repeats itself with 2020 Covid Events)
1904 Filipino People Imported by US government for display at a Louisiana purchase exposition as part of a human zoo.
1905 establishment of Japanese and Korean Exclusion league with policies to ban immigration, employment, segregation in schools, and initiation of propaganda
Pacific Coast Race Riots of 1907 targeting east and south Asians, including the 1907 Bellingham riots targeting south Asians.
1909 Murder of Elsie Sigel: For which a Chinese person was suspected, was blamed on the Chinese in general and immediately led to physical violence against them
1913 Alien Land Law: restricted then ultimately banned Asian land owning
Immigration Act of 1917: banned immigration from Asia-Pacific zone, except certain professionals
Emergency Quota Act of 1921: introduced national origins formula. Lasting 44years, it restricted immigration based on existing population proportions. Its goal was to maintain the existing ethnic composition of the U.S. and kept quotas low for Eastern and Southern Europe.
Cable Act of 1922: Asian men and women excluded from citizenship
1923 Case: US v Bhagat: Ruled Hindus were racially ineligible for naturalized citizenship (in the country where religious freedom was in a inalienable right)
Immigration Act of 1924: Effectively ban ALL IMMIGRATION FROM ASIA
National Origins Quota of 1924: Excluded Japanese from immigration and citizenship
1927 Case: Lum v. Rice: Ruled that exclusion by race of Chinese American from school did not violate 14th amendment, effectively approved exclusion of minority children
1927-1930 Anti-Filipino riots (including in Yakima Valley, Exeter, Watsonville) in part because Filipino men having relations with white women
1933 Case Roldan v LA County: Filipinos ineligible for citizenship barring immigration, amended Anti-Miscegenation laws so Filipinos could not marry whites
1934 Tyding-McDuffle Act: Limited Filipino immigration to 50 people per year
1937 Anti-Alien land law: banned Filipino Americans from owning land
1942-1946 Japanese Internment & racist caricatures of Japanese in US Media $20k Payment in 1988 (valued ~43k in 2019) to former internees still alive (some didn't get theirs until decades later)
1943 Magnuson Act: Repealed Chinese Exclusion Act, allowing 105 Chinese per year
Luce-Celler Act of 1946: A quota of 100 Indians per year could immigrate
1947-1989: Strong American Interest in Asia especially Korea and Viet Nam. This period of US Imperialism was utterly trash and we lose many American soldiers of nothing. We established dictators, overthrew governments, committed genocide, used chemical warfare, and worse
1982 Murder of Vincent Chin: Mistaken for Japanese, his murders also got zero jail time.
Today: Asian Americans continue to experience widespread
-Exclusion in leadership, media, data, and history
-Hate in casual, acceptable everyday racism as well as targets for crime
-Gaslighting that they do not experience racism
-Negative Action as a result of everything combined
I am sharing ALL of this today because for whatever dumb reason White America has forgotten who they were and pretend that black people & Asian people and every other minority group is supposed to just "figure it out". They've group "POC" and "Poor white people" in the same boat
The oppression olympics are over. It is time to recognize that #BlackLivesMatter and #StopAsianHate
I cannot stress it enough that all of the gaslighting, fighting racism with racism, the "but they don't stand up for me", and ignorant primitive 5 year old logic of how crime works and how international crime affects our communities needs to stop. Its embarrassing.
No one is winning by boycotting Black and Asian Stores.
No one is winning by holding on to past individualized transgressions of our communities.
No one is winning when we fight between ourselves except rich white nationals and stakeholders in the media making a mockery of it all
As I mentioned before this is an unroll of the fantastic instagram snackable created by bluecherryemoji on IG: https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1372357939474829313?s=20
I also want to add on to this a lesser known thing that black ppl were going thru during this same time period (outside of slavery, mass incarceration, war on drugs, lynching)

Red Summer-A multiyear span of DOZENS of black cities destroyed (here's a few) https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1279647546206347266?s=20
Man the support on this is unreal. Wow.

Another thing Ive put together in the past is a short nonextensive list of nonblack ppl that #BlackLivesMatter has rallied for in the past (often times alone). The narrative they only care about black ppl is wrong https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1271936272768983040?s=20
Here is a thread on the real purpose of the American Dream and what it originally meant (spoiler alert it's not a white picket fence with a house on a hill with 2.5 children) https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1274086940812378114?s=20
Update: if you want to know why so many older wasian couples exist during a time Asians couldn't get in the country: The US made an exception for Asian brides (it is CRAZY to see how this created the WMAW trend today)

1945-1946 Japanese Bride ACT

https://twitter.com/tanfongkee/status/1372562139907387393?s=20
Here are current forms of systemic racism still happening in modern times https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1279655555728936960?s=20
Lastly I want to say thank you to everyone who has taken the time out to read this. Please follow bluecherryemoji on IG. She's doing fantastic work in this space.

Here are ways to help, get involved, and keep moving forward. #StopAsianHate https://twitter.com/INNIESANGELS/status/1372063506850140160?s=20
If I see another nigga peddle this bull abt Asians being white, I'm gonna lose it. We gain nothing from being upset w some "racist korean store owners"

Theyre not in the same boat as us, bt thats because they couldn't get on boats. We're the same #BlackLivesMatter #StopAsianHate
Okay okay last last thing. A letter I wrote this the #BlackLivesMatter and #StopAsianHate communities last year calling for unity https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1280685472839200769?s=20
Update. More info on Japanese Concentration camps and it's effects causing them to lose everything by @ichigomochis https://twitter.com/ichigomochis/status/1372631901140254722?s=20
Bro I knew they put black ppl in zoos. BUT THE FILIPINOS TOO????

My guy. I'm shook. Filiponos been here since at 1765 in Louisiana and they put them dudes in zoos just like black ppl.

Somebody call @jemelehill cause I got another documentary to make
There's a secret thing called the "Secret War" that happened in Loas where the US did some more death star vader stuff. I'm having a rough day learning about all of this. https://twitter.com/sasakayy/status/1372639285535416320?s=20
Can any of yall link me that awesome material you guys did last summer to have the black lives matter stuff in different languages?

I need to help some of my friends and family know that we not in this alone and that times are changing. Thanks in a huge advance.
It's very common in the black community for us to believe we're the only one who went thru some stuff while everyone else was just watching Whiteness Work for 300+ years. I'm learning this wasn't the case and am trying to see the changes over time. I need to show it to my people
War on Drugs: https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1280240810982699008?s=20
Racist Policies that terrorized black women (Planned Parenthood under Margaret Sanger): https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1281109563823894528?s=20
More threads. This one is about that time I found out women couldn't have thier own credit cards a couple years ago: https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1318682222573092868?s=20
I asked my asian followers for links to the countless resources of #Asians4BlackLives multi-lingual material to help their old relatives and international relatives know what was going on in the black community.

@dotorii_muk came thru for a brotha https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1372642052572209152?s=20
I wish that I would have gotten more active and involved sooner. Like I'm so used to being black and having other black people speak up and talk out loud even if others try and put us down.
I never really noticed or paid attention to how sometimes WE do it to others. I'm trying to find about how a lot of times ppl don't understand how many people there are lol.
Like white ppl have 65% of the population. This means it only takes 20% of them to drown out the total 13% black voice.
At the same time...Black ppl have 13% of the population and it only takes 20% of them to drown out the complete 4% of Asian voices. So like even when we think "oh it's just a couple ignorant niggas talking"...to Asians that can be more than enough to silence everyone.
It's imperative that we unify, stop comparing oppression dick sizes, learn about one another, and help out the older generations in our families. And if they don't want to change, fine, we're going to have to move forward without them.
Q: "What do you even say in the face of such unbridled evil?"

You use it. You see the history&you understand more of what ppl go through

You weaponize it as a tool carving out the hate, jokes, stereotypes&propoganda building a more peaceful tomorrow✊🏿✌🏿 https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1364278363171430403?s=20
Unroll @threadreaderapp
Don't let this die!!! I want Ben Shapiro to complain about it and say "well all cultures had racist immigration policies"
I lied one more thread I just wrote https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1373081104853344257?s=20
Los Angeles / SGV Vigil: https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1373176659029893126?s=20
this thread is too long but not too long for this https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1373325043627749385?s=20
Okay I wrote another important one https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1373449907802017799?s=20
Richard Aoki gave the black panthers their weapons

The Asian students in cali held protest for other people of color to be able to attend the universities

Grace Lee is the one of only non-black female leader in black power detroit and marched with MLK https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/chinese-american-woman-behind-black-power-movement-n126651
The Chinese-American Woman Behind the Black Power Movement

A new film examines the life and legacy of activist Grace Lee Boggs. Filmmaker Grace Lee talks about how a shared name led her to Boggs' story.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/chinese-american-woman-behind-black-power-movement-n126651
After fleeing Spanish Manila Galleon slavery (lasted 250 years), Filipinos have been in this country longer than the Declaration of Independence.

Their first settlement was in Saint Malo 1763 (before Louisiana was a state) to set up the 1st Asian American settlement.
It's time for a fusion dance https://twitter.com/mot427/status/1374099045317111808?s=20
I just don't know how I could sit here&learn that Asians were:
-Kidnapped/Sold into slavery in South America
-demonized/banned in/from the US
-Had their livelihoods destroyed

...&harbor the idea they "stood by while white ppl terrorized black people"

White education betrayed us
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