Hello Esha,
Your above quote is very helpful in helping others to show others how they may understand how institutional and systemic racism has played out in our country. However, this next statement is quite untrue…
There are, however, Asian-Americans on the other side of the coin. The way they see it, #BlackLivesMatter doesn’t include them.
You see, historically, Asians HAVE been there for the BLM. In 2016, this letter was published on Medium about where Asians found themselves in the BLM movement, in regards to their elders and helping them understand…
Even during the 60’s, many came out in support of the Black Panthers and their leader.
There are many Asian women who have also aligned themselves with the BLM, only back then it was called the Civil Rights Movement.
Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s she and James Boggs, her husband of some forty years, took their own political direction.
Yuri Kochiyama (河内山 百合子, Kōchiyama Yuriko, May 19, 1921 — June 1, 2014) was an American civil rights activist. Influenced by her Japanese-American family’s internment, her association with Malcolm X, and her Maoist beliefs, she advocated for many causes, including black separatism, the anti-war movement, reparations for Japanese-American internees, and the rights of people imprisoned by the U.S. government for violent offenses whom she considered to be “political prisoners”. She is regarded as one of the key figures of the Asian American Movement.
You speak of educating oneself about history. May I suggest that you do the same, and maybe a bit farther back in time.
