Tan, 49, was the mother of Jami Webb, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia. She was a licensed massage therapist and the owner of Young’s Asian Massage, along with other businesses in the area, including another spa and a tanning salon, according to state records. She was “the sweetest, most kind-hearted, giving, never-met-a-stranger person,” a friend told Atlanta’s WSB-TV. Just one day away from her 50th birthday when she was killed, according to USA Today, Tan was described by her daughter as thoughtful, devoted to her family, and looking forward to traveling in her retirement.
Hyun Jung Grant was a Korean immigrant who worked at Atlanta’s Gold Spa. Her son Randy Park, 23, shared a tribute to his mother on GoFundMe: He said his mother was a single parent who “dedicated her whole life to providing for my brother and I.” She loved dancing and sushi, according to Park, who told The Daily Beast, “She wasn’t just my mother. She was my friend.” Park, who now has to raise his brother alone, is not buying law-enforcement officials’ suggestion that the attack was motivated by a supposed sex addiction, not racism. “That’s bullshit,” he said.
Yaun Gonzalez, 33, was a mother of two — 13-year-old Mayson and 8-month-old Mia. She had worked all day on Tuesday at the Waffle House a few shops down from Tan’s spa business. She had been looking forward to having a relaxing night out with her husband, Mario Gonzalez, whom she married only last year, and the couple had reportedly never been to Young’s Asian Massage before. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, family members say that Mario Gonzalez, who survived the shooting, is “taking [the situation] hard.” Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez’s friends and family have set up a GoFundMe to address her funeral costs.
Michels, 54, was a handyman at Young’s Asian Massage and the owner of an electric company. He was only recently hired for the role and excited to take it on after looking for more work during the pandemic, according to a friend who spoke with CBS46. An army veteran originally from Detroit, Michels is one of nine siblings and is survived by his wife of more than two decades. In an interview with the Guardian, his brother John Michels emphasized his kindness. “He was just a regular guy, very good-hearted, very soft-natured,” he said, while noting that Michels had expressed an interest in getting involved in the massage business.
A licensed massage therapist, she was laid off at the start of the pandemic last year and was excited to finally start shifts at the spa again, her son Elliott Peterson, 42, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday morning. Yue’s youngest child, Robert Peterson, 38, agreed, recalling their mother as a kind and deeply caring woman. If you stopped by her house, she’d sit you down, ask if you’d eaten, and then insist on a trip to H Mart grocery store so she could make a meal.
Daoyou Feng, 44, began working at Young’s Asian Massage in recent months, according to Tan’s friend Hynson. She was kind and quiet, he said. Her relatives could not be reached for comment.
Soon Chung Park, 74, was also a worker at an Atlanta spa. Her family didn’t respond when reached for comment. Park previously lived in New York, where she has relatives, her son-in-law, Scott Lee, told the New York Times. “She got along with her family so well,” Lee told the newspaper.
Suncha Kim, 69, worked at one of the spas in Atlanta. Her family could not be reached for comment. Kim, a grandmother, was married for more than 50 years, a family member told the Times. She enjoyed line dancing and worked hard, the relative said.
Hernandez-Ortiz, 30, was the only survivor of the victims who were shot on Tuesday, and he remains hospitalized for multiple gunshot wounds in his “forehead, throat, lungs and stomach,” according to the Washington Post. He was shot while standing outside in the shopping center where Young’s Asian Massage is located. “He came from nothing and has come a long way; that is why I have faith he will survive this,” his wife Flor Gonzalez told the Washington Post. Gonzalez has also set up a GoFundMe to help with the costs of Hernandez-Ortiz’s medical care.
hereis a twitter thread and constantly updating, currently active google doc that contains the gofundmes, paypals, cashapps, etc of victims of anti-asian hate crimes, asian-owned small businesses, and asians who need financial aid. please consider donating & boosting and adding more donation links if you have them.
Yeah, it was absolutely true. Many colleges, Ivy League and not, had quotas for Jewish attendance. This mostly became an issue in the interwar period.* While Jews had been emigrating to the US for several hundred years, since the first settlement of what is now New York, a massive wave of Eastern European Jewish emigration began in 1881 and continued in full force until (and to an extent through) World War I. In the 1920s, this ended due to racist, eugenicist influences on Congress- draconian immigration laws were enacted in 1924 to drastically limit immigration particularly of poor and “less white” people, like Jews, Italians, and Greeks, by basing the permitted immigration on numbers from 1890, when relatively few had emigrated. However, by the 1920s, colleges felt like they were facing a different problem- second-generation advancement. Jews who had arrived since 1881 had come with little to no English and relatively little education in general, but especially given the emphasis on assimilation and the “melting pot” which their children received in schools and settlement houses, the children of immigrants were far more Americanized, and their parents pushed them toward academic success. By 1915, for example, about 40% of students at Columbia were Jewish (either immigrants or first generation Americans)- ironically due to the fact that Columbia had made it easier for them to get in as public school students by basing admissions on standardized tests.
College administrators were not happy about this, so they decided to do something about it.
Examples:
In 1922, Harvard implemented a 10% quota for Jews in order to prevent a “Jewish problem,” in the words of its president, A. Lawrence Lowell. He rationalized this by saying that he wanted to decrease potential antisemitism on campus.
Harvard also changed its admission system from an entrance exam (which favored studious Jews from the well-performing NYC public school system, who generally succeeded) to a system in which they accepted students from the top seventh of their class regardless of their score on the exam. This favored students in other parts of the country who had received lower quality education, and had the additional “benefit” of reducing the number of Jewish accepted students.
In the 1920s, Columbia basically invented the modern college application form. Why? So that they could weed out Jewish (and potentially other undesirable) applicants. Knowing that many Jews changed their names to hide their Jewishness, these forms required that past names be listed and also asked for country of origin, mother’s maiden name, and social organizations. And you know those questions about extracurriculars? Those were also invented for this purpose, as a measure of “character”- with character meaning “not Jewish.” Jews were known for being studious and “greasy,” not participating in all of the typically WASPy social concerns, and so by making “character” a requirement they were able to eliminate Jews from the pool. Nicholas Murray Butler, when discussing the more limited admission of Jews, stated that there had been no conscious effort to eliminate Jews- after evaluating the application forms, Jews were simply among “the lowest grade of applicant,” this despite the fact that so many had previously been accepted on the basis of grades.Harvard soon followed suit in using an application form, and many other colleges adopted it in the coming years.
While universities like Princeton had been interested in making a quota, it took Harvard and Columbia making the first move for them to implement one, along with colleges like Barnard, Yale, Duke, Rutgers, Adelphi, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Penn State, Ohio State, Washington and Lee, the Universities of Cincinnati, Illinois, Kansas, Texas, Minnesota, Virginia, and Washington, and the Bronx campus of NYU.
Colgate University kept six Jews enrolled specifically in order to counter charges of antisemitic admissions.
Syracuse University housed Jews separately from other students and had a KKK branch on campus.
Sarah Lawrence College had a question on its application about whether applicants had been raised with “strict Sunday observance.”
-Even as late as 1945, Dartmouth retained a quota for its Jews, citing its status as a Christian college for Christian men.
If a Jew WAS accepted to an elite university, he (they were generally not coeducational yet) could expect not to be accepted into university culture. The social clubs and fraternities which made these colleges one big boys’ club did not let Jews among their number. They were often considered to lack college spirit, be physically repulsive, not drink enough, be brown-nosers, and not participate in sports enough, as well as to raise the academic standard too high. They were also considered to be below the appropriate level of social class and standing.
-At Brown University, Jewish students were barred from fraternities, but also barred from creating their own fraternity, purportedly to prevent antisemitism.
At the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, the page with the number two ranking cadet, who happened to be Jewish, was perforated so that those who desired could remove it without defacing the volume.
Even at universities which accepted small numbers of Jews, almost no Jews would be accepted as college professors. Fewer than 100 Jews were hired as faculty throughout the country, and nearly all under protest or some kind of special circumstance, with the caveat that they didn’t usually hire Jews.
Graduate programs admitted few Jews, using as the pretext the fact that they would never be hired as university faculty.
Despite all this, Jews continued in their quests for education, becoming 9% of college students despite being 4% of the general population. They were also nearly half of the total number of college students in New York City. They generally matriculated at City College of New York (called by some the “cheder [religious school] on the hill”) or NYU’s downtown campus (nicknamed “New York Jew”). In 1920, CCNY and Hunter College (the women’s college) had 80-90% Jewish student bodies. CCNY had been the first college to create a Jewish fraternity, ZBT, which stood for Zion Bemishpat Tipadeh, or Zion Shall Be Redeemed With Judgement. Even there, there were few Jewish faculty members- for example, there were only four at CCNY. By the 1930s, there were still only 5, and CCNY was faced with charges of antisemitism in their hiring.
There were absolutely protests of this practice. There was an outcry, for example, when Columbia implemented its application form. However, for the most part, Jews preferred not to attend colleges where they would be social outcasts and often (especially those who already lived in NY) actively chose schools like CCNY/Hunter College and NYU (and initially Columbia) as they were close to home and would provide a more Jewish-friendly environment. In general, especially in the 1930s and 40s, the US was a pretty antisemitic place (I touch on this here). For example, in a poll in the 1940s, 45% of college students said they would not want to be roommates with a Jew. The end of the practice of Jewish quotas wasn’t so much due to outcry as due to an internal examination of antisemitism in the US and the decline of the phenomenon in the postwar years. (The Civil Rights Act didn’t exist til 1964, so the practice wasn’t illegal.)
*That’s not to say there was no discrimination against Jews in colleges before this- many prominent Jews of the early 20th century, such as Oscar Straus and Bernard Baruch, later noted the difficulties they faced as Jews in university.
The Communist Party of China was in the right side of history during their meeting with the Black Panther Party. While communism was used a tool for nation-building in China, communism was used as a tool for social and economic equity for the oppressed proletariat by the Black Panther Party in the United States. Imperialism and colonialsm are all vital elements in Marxist-Leninist theory, which greatly influenced the development of the Black Panther Party and Communist Party of China.
The media is moving on but I haven’t. . I’m not very good with words or emotions, but what I can offer is 10+ years of martial arts training and 20+ years of existing while female and Asian. I’ve tried to suppress bad memories as much as possible, but Atlanta really blew the lid off that strategy. . So here’s an infographic on an under taught truth of self-defense. It’s not a solution to systemic racism, but I hope it allows you to reclaim your agency, and walk down the street with a little less fear than yesterday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . #atlanta #stopaapihate #selfdefense #stopasianhate #selfdefenseforwomen #selfdefence #hateisavirus #protectourelders #infographic ##artinsanely #artaccounts #arthabit #smallartist #artistsupport #justdraw #artistssupportartists #procreate #procreate5x #ipadproart #ipadart #digitalart #digitalillustration #digital_artist #ipadpainting #asianartist #asianart #asianamerican #aapi https://www.instagram.com/p/CM5and-sdOU/?igshid=1ou2z1jcugyo0
-STOP ASIAN HATE GIVEAWAY- -Year of the Ox piece- -10x20 canvas coated in resin-
It pains me to my core to hear and see on the news about senseless attacks on asian people across the US. Pains me even more that the US isnt taking this more serious. Its a helpless feeling not knowing what to do and how to do it. SO ! Im going to try out a giveaway to try and raise awareness and help those who fell victim to these attacks and also for those standing up and saying NO THIS SHIT IS NOT OK!
-HOW TO START - -All i ask is that you donate to the organizations and Go Fund Me’s in my Linktree shown on my bio. - Every dollar is 1 entry. Even if its just a dollar, thats ok. Message me with a screenshot of your donation and ill add you! -so far i have @hateisavirus_ @stopaapihate as options -If there are more organizations or Go Fund Me’s not in my linktree please tell me and ill add it to the list.
**giveaway will last till March 12th! And ill announce the winner on March 13th!***
via @stopaapihate - “The #SaferPlace campaign will turn up the heat on state lawmakers & show the importance of advancing No Place For Hate California in this critical moment in the legislative cycle by bringing together a large, diverse coalition of people to reframe #streetharassment as a public health problem that can be addressed through policy intervention.
How you can participate: Our Tweetstorm will start on May 4, we hope you’ll participate in this campaign by sharing your experience with street harassment, following 3 simple steps: • Share a tweet, describing the last time or the most memorable time that you have been leered at, stared at, or subjected to verbal attacks; whether on the street, inside a train station, or at the grocery store. Tell us what happened & what it would mean to you to feel safer in public & add #SaferPlace. • You can also join our photo campaign by taking a picture of yourself holding a white piece of paper that completes the following sentence: “I want a safer place to _______________” & add #SaferPlace. • Uplift the experiences of others by liking, retweeting or engaging with other content that uses the #SaferPlace hashtag.
Here are a few examples: - 77% of women have experienced street harassment according to @stpstharassmnt & thats 77% too many. We must create a #SaferPlace for women, girls & other vulnerable groups to thrive. California is long overdue to pass #NoPlaceForHateCA. - If I had a #SaferPlace to _______________, I wouldn’t have to _______________. #CALeg, let’s pass #NoPlaceForHateCA to create safer & more accessible places for everyone. - As a [woman/parent/POC], I want a #SaferPlace for [someone important in your life whose experienced harassment], #NoPlaceForHateCA can help us get there.
Secondary Hashtags: #NoPlaceForHateCA corresponds with the No Place For Hate California campaign. Please include it in all tweets that relate to the bills themselves. #CALeg refers to the California state legislature, where our bills will remain until passage. Please include it in all tweets that call upon lawmakers to take action. Like, save, tag, comment, & share!! #stopasianhate #stopaapihate #aanhpi (at Twitter) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdMv1GbOcrW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Proud to have worked on this very meaningful episode with my friend @perryyungofficial. Perry was there when I worked one of my FIRST jobs on TV (Law and Order: SVU), when I worked on @boogiemovie, AND on this episode. It’s been a long journey making art with someone who I admire as an artist AND activist. Everyone who knows me well knows how important antiracist activism is to me, and I’m so fortunate to get to combine my art and activist ideals with a role model and fellow Cantonese-speaking Chinese American performer. Watching Perry deliver these lines was a raw moment for me behind the scenes. His performance was so honest, and I was in awe on every take. I was moved by the words, which is rare for me WHILE on set watching a performance while working. What an honor to share that moment with him and hopefully all of you. #stopasianhate #tv #stunts #acting @theequalizercbs https://www.instagram.com/p/CaxRj6vrNP6/?utm_medium=tumblr
#StopAsianHate is meaningless until we acknowledge white men as the architects of anti-Asian racism, and the blueprints they use to divide the Asian community and sabotage progress.
Understanding anti-Asian racism means connecting its history in the U.S. with its history in Asia, instead of treating them separately. U.S. imperialism, war, and colonization abroad directly informs the racism Asian Americans experience because the goal is the same: divide, conquer, and kill.
White men used war to split Korea and Vietnam in two, and divide AsAms the same way. One blueprint of the U.S.’s domestic anti-Asian strategy is the Mixed Marriage Policy of 1942-1943. Implemented during Japanese Internment, it gave certain Asians special exemptions to leave camp.
Internment was meant to harm Japanese Americans, not white men with Japanese families (whiteness is why few German and Italian Americans were interned). So, the Mixed Marriage Policy let Japanese leave camps if they:
1) married a non-Japanese
2) proved a “Caucasian environment.”
The Mixed Marriage Policy had two versions. In 1942, few Asians were eligible—especially monoracial Japanese men. The 1943 version greatly expanded eligibility for monoracial Japanese women and mixed-Japanese adults, but eliminated nearly all eligibility for monoracial Japanese men.
Each eligible case required proving a “Caucasian environment.” So while on paper the MMP offered exemptions to non-white mixed-Japanese couples and their kids, they were rarely granted. The MMP’s real goal was to benefit white men with Japanese wives and mixed-white Japanese children.
Overall, the Mixed Marriage Policy reveals white men’s hierarchy of Asians:
1) mixed-white Asian adults
2) monoracial Asian women married to white men and with white-mixed children
3) monoracial Asian men—preferably deported, divorced, detained in an internment camp, or dead.
By explicitly laying out white men’s hierarchy of Asians, the MMP is an incredibly revealing anti-Asian document. Which is perhaps why it’s so difficult to find—the original documents are at the National Archives and aren’t digitized (must pay to see them).
There’s good reason for white men wanting to hide the MMP. It’s a Rosetta Stone for understanding the motivations of many modern anti-Asian hate crimes like the NYC Hammer killings, Atlanta spa shootings, and Isla Vista massacre. Each can be directly tied to the roadmap MMP provides.
The 2019 NYC hammer killings occurred when a white man saw films vilifying Asian men and wanted to “defend” Asian women. He entered a buffet to hammer random Asian men in the head. They all died slowly: Fufai Pun later that day, Kheong Ng-Thang 3 days later, Tsz Pun a week later.
The 2021 Atlanta spa shootings occurred because a white man blamed Asian women for his “sex addiction.” He shot at multiple Asian massage workers and planned on targeting more. Victims include Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant, Soon Chung Park, Suncha Kim, and Yong Ae Yue.
The 2014 Isla Vista massacre occurred because a functionally-white, white-mixed Asian hated white women who rejected him & men of color. He assaulted monoracial Asian men several times and murdered three—Cheng Yuan Hong, Weihan Wang, and George Chen—by stabbing them 15, 25, and 94 times.
Many people believe anti-Asian racism started with COVID, but as these examples show, Asians have always suffered violence. The problem is our stories are purposely erased and twisted to double-victimize us and reinforce the lies of the Model Minority Myth. This happens two ways.
The first erasure comes from white people in government, news, education, and more. White men know coverage can humanize—or destroy. That’s why the racial component of Isla Vista was removed, the hammer killings were downplayed, and “sex addiction” was used to justify Atlanta.
The second erasure sadly comes from complicit Asians. The MMP’s core concept is clear: to be spared fatal anti-Asian racism, you must actively show loyalty to whiteness by proving a “Caucasian environment"—in other words, dodge the bullet by redirecting it to another Asian’s head.
Complicit Asians say criticizing their complicity condemns interracial relationships. It doesn’t. There were Japanese whose white spouses stood by them—like Arthur Ishigo, whose wife Estelle voluntarily joined his camp. He later died of cancer and she lost her legs to gangrene.
These days complicit Asians aren’t restricted by gender or marriage. Anyone can be one (although partnering with white men remains the easiest way to do this). To prove their “Caucasian environment,” they must punch down on Asians with equal or greater hate than white men do.
For ex, complicit Asians write articles telling Asian Americans to not label anti-Asian violence as hate crimes until white officials say so, disrespect Asian male Isla Vista victims by blaming their deaths on Asianness, and so on. They’re not bringing awareness—they’re sabotaging it.
That’s by design. White men know in-fighting wastes AsAm energy. So, they recruit complicit Asians, give them a monopoly on AsAm resources, microphones, and platforms—despite being a minority in AsAm spaces—and watch as they perpetuate the status quo rather than dismantle it.
This all comes back to the same violent, imperialist strategies white men have used against Asian countries for centuries: rape and pillage, divide and conquer, install puppet leaders. Drive Asians out of Asia through violence, dangle the “American dream,” then murder us more.
This means the MMP’s relevance is twofold: 1) white men’s hierarchy of Asians endures to this day, and 2) rising hate crimes show how easy it is to bring internment back. Between 2020 and 2021, overall hate crimes dropped by 7%, but anti-Asian hate crimes spiked 149%.
So to #StopAsianHate, it’s not enough to talk about the "easy” topics. We must also address the “taboos.” This includes the violent ways whiteness recruits Asians so it can Trojan Horse its way into our communities, shut down progress, and endanger us all—exactly as intended.
Thank you to Ashlynn Deu Pree, Paul Spickard, and Adrienne Edgar for their help with points of contact and data.
(Please don’t repost or edit my art. Reblogs are always appreciated.)
Yes, BUT we must ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE AND CALL TO ACCOUNT & RESPONSIBILITY the guilt of the non-whites too who are causing all the crimes and letting crimes go unpunished against us, and that’s the fact that at this point it is EVERYONE, especially blacks, liberals, and (((the other whites))) in addition to white males who are attacking Asians at this point. No excusing ANYONE.
Stop Asian Hate! Standing in solitary with the AAPI communities. The violent attacks and horrific killings in Atlanta are sickening and heartbreaking This needs to stop. If you see something, say something. Enough is enough. Hate has no home here. #stopasianhate #stopaapihate #hateisavirus #diverserunnersworld #diversewerun #blacklivesmatter✊✊✊ https://www.instagram.com/p/CMs6f_YHOn6/?igshid=13eiz0nxeep8u
Racism and physical attacks against Asian people have spread with the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 in United States, more than 2,800 cases of assault against Asian people were registered. In moments as difficult as the ones we are living in, we must be firm in condemning racial hatred. We need more compassion, we need more empathy, we don’t need more hate.
El racismo y los ataques físicos contra las personas asiáticas y de ascendencia asiática se han propagado con la pandemia de COVID-19. Solamente en Estados Unidos durante 2020 se registraron más de 2,800 casos de agresión contra personas asiáticas. En tiempos tan difíciles como los que estamos viviendo debemos ser firmes en condenar el odio racial. Necesitamos más compresión, necesitamos más empatía, no necesitamos más odio.
I’ve always felt ashamed to be Chinese, because all I ever hear are negative things about China/the Chinese. I used to call myself American for the longest time, since I was born there and hold a US passport. I never felt like I belonged anywhere. I’ve westernized myself, and realized lately that the stories or characters I create are much more Western than Asian—I don’t know whose story I’m trying to tell. I never talk about my lineage or my culture—I don’t know who I’m trying to be. But after seeing all the Asian hate, I’m tired of pushing that part of myself away. I am Asian and I’m proud of it. I stand with my fellow Asians and say #stopasianhate
idk call me radical or crazy or whatever but people shouldn’t need a reason to care about human lives
all these posts like “if you listen to kpop / if you like anime / if you watch cdramas you should care about what’s happening right now” are SO tone deaf and weird. people, especially elders, are being attacked and murdered because of their race. that is why you should care. because human lives are being taken and it is wrong.an entire continent and its people should not be reduced to the commodities and entertainment they give to you for you to care about our lives. you should care about us because we’re human beings
ON TOP OF THAT that rhetoric is turning everyone’s attention to only east asians. yes, east asians are facing increased hatecrimes and racism. but so are south asians. so are north asians. so are west asians. so are pacific islanders. it’s so weird to focus your “activism” on the one group that you deem entertaining or whatever
“Life is a state of endless becoming. It is vital not to forget where we’ve been, to take inventory of all that we currently have, and to envision bigger lives for ourselves.
I WAS — In a society that is forward facing and fast moving, there is value in pausing and looking back. The first phase asks us to rest and reflect. To acknowledge the stages we have survived, the people we have loved, and the losses we have accumulated.
We must make a home for all of our experiences and allow them to take shape. How will we let our past inform us? How will we carry it forward? How will we become bigger than what has hurt us?
I AM — The character sits centered, anchored in the present.
We must take the time to absorb what is happening now without letting life mindlessly pass us by. Pay attention, even to the hard parts.
I WILL BE — Evolution is inevitable. Should we ever feel stuck or trapped, we can seek comfort knowing we exist in a state of flux.
The character exits the frame, envisioning a life beyond what the viewer can see.
This piece serves as an homage to process, rather than outcome. Healing happens when we are able to incorporate the full spectrum of our experiences and integrate our collective selves. Instead of keeping parts of us in the dark, we deserve to live wholly and authentically. I hope you will honor every leg of your journey, knowing life is infinitely unfolding.”
Chanel Miller. “I was, I am, I will be” is on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco through February 2022.
there’s been a fuck ton of aapi hate since the beginning of the pandemic and especially lately, with the georgia shootings today, and even the grammys last sunday
all this said i just wanted to share a few resources (none mine!):
-anti-asian violence resources(this resource is also linked in my pinned, it contains information, petitions, places to donate and a lot more)
-stop asian hate(contains petitions, places to donate, ways to spread the word and more)
*above are three grassroots (not sure if im using that word right) dedicated to advocating for asian and migrant sex work! check them out and donate if possible
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if you have any resources you wanna share reply and/or reblog and i’ll add it, and with that please share this with the same tags <3 sending love to my fellow aapi, please stay safe all of you and don’t be fucking racist :]
hereis a twitter thread and constantly updating, currently active google doc that contains the gofundmes, paypals, cashapps, etc of victims of anti-asian hate crimes, asian-owned small businesses, and asians who need financial aid. please consider donating & boosting and adding more donation links if you have them.
Been processing a lot these past few days. It’s been a rough year at the very least and a lot had risen. Anti-Asian racism, violence, unnecessary blaming and the absolute shit excuses for A RACIST ACT OF VIOLENCE.
Racism is everywhere. Some fluff it off. Some come home defeated. And sadly, some never come home at all. So this needs to stop.
Here’s a story of my first real taste of racism here while growing up in LA while I was out with my Mom. I wish I could say that was it. But it was only the beginning. Please check in on your Asian friends and family. Any incident can break a person behind closed doors… .
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Please follow and support @stopaapihate @aaajalc @advancingjustice_aajc @napawf_atl
Been processing a lot these past few days. It’s been a rough year at the very least and a lot had risen. Anti-Asian racism, violence, unnecessary blaming and the absolute shit excuses for A RACIST ACT OF VIOLENCE.
Racism is everywhere. Some fluff it off. Some come home defeated. And sadly, some never come home at all. So this needs to stop.
Here’s a story of my first real taste of racism here while growing up in LA while I was out with my Mom. I wish I could say that was it. But it was only the beginning. Please check in on your Asian friends and family. Any incident can break a person behind closed doors… .
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Please follow and support @stopaapihate @aaajalc @advancingjustice_aajc @napawf_atl
