Source: Elderly Asian Woman Fights Back After Man Punches Her in the Face in SF (yahoo.com)
This upsets me in so many ways. It angers me, what if somebody punched your mother or anybody that you loved in the face? What irks me as well is that the attacker (being white, no surprise) was being treated first and was on the stretcher. What about the elderly woman? SHE HAD BLOOD COMING OUT OF HER TOO. SHE WAS BEING ATTACKED FIRST.
You Get What You Fucking Deserve | Know Your Meme
[My reaction to the attacker after the woman fought back]
I'm just so fucking mad. This may garner controversy, but being Asian myself, I have always felt as if I shouldn't bring up my anxieties and struggles with growing up in a Western country where I never felt belonged or truly accepted. I believed if I just kept quiet and didn't react, I would be the bigger person and nothing bad will happen to me. Obviously that's bullshit.
In no ways am I trying to drive away BLM and any other race related events. In fact, matters like BLM and Asian hate crime protests, they shouldn't just become talked about all of the sudden because somebody videorecorded a POC being attacked or it went viral on Twitter. It needs to be brought to awareness frequently and not when people feel like it. I may be contradicting myself as I have only posted this when matters were getting worse, but in the end, I want people to remain proactive and aware with issues like this.
How the 1982 Murder of Vincent Chin Ignited a Push for Asian American Rights - HISTORY
We all know racist hate crimes have existed long before the 21st century. Take for example the murder of Vincent Chin (1982). He was murdered by two white men because they assumed he was Japanese. For a brief summary, the men were frustrated with the boom in the Japanese auto industry and how it was spreading across the world. There was a decline in automotive jobs for people in America, and doing so, the men decided to leash all their anger on Chin, who was Chinese. It doesn't make the scenario any different if he were Japanese, or any other race. These men were lashing out their racist attacks that was built on and cultivated in a country where its ideologies were formed around hate and superiority. (I understand that this was the 80s, but it doesn't make it any better as we are seeing this being repeated all over again).
We need to educate each other. We need to listen, learn and love. Listen to your POC experience with racism or any struggles that they face. Just because you may not hear other people's races struggling in society, it doesn't mean that their experience is not anymore valid than anybody else's. Learn how you can be better and see if there is anything you can change in your life to be an ally and raise awareness on racist hate crimes. We must learn to love one another and accept each other. Life is too short to be fighting everyday and not breathing in life. We need to breathe and not be tense.
