Dr. Sarah Jessica has been doing some really excellent Black-Asian solidarity tweeting after ESPN ran a “chink” headline in an article about Lin and KPOP songwriter Jenny Hyun (who’s written songs for SNSD) called for genocide against black people. Some more of her tweets:
- Africa, the Middle East, and Asia had advanced trade and education networks among each other before they were ever “discovered.”
- In the U.S. racist Asian characters were a common part of the minstrel shows (that popularized blackface) of the 1900s.
#solidarity- The Black Press spoke out vocally against the interment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
#solidarity- Asian Americans played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement.
#solidarity- Rise of Bruce Lee inspired many black kids in inner cities to take up martial arts as form of self-improvement and self-defense.
#solidarity- Richard Aoki a Japanese American was a founding member of the Black Panther Party, close friend of Bobby Seale & Huey Newton.
#solidarity- I could go on. Even simply in pop culture there is a recognition of
#solidarity between Afro-Asian culture: Wu Tang Clan, Afro Samurai, etc.- The feminizing of Asian men worked hand in hand w/ the criminalizing of African men in justifying the U.S. racial hierarchy.
#solidarity- Asian women/black women hv been stereotyped as ever-willing sexual deviants 2 justify exploitation/colonization of their bodies.
#solidarity- Model Minority stereotype has been used 2 control Asian people just as much as it’s used to denigrate black folk in comparison.
#solidarity- Asian Americans were banned from eating at, going to school at, living in certain neighborhoods too, a photo:http://pic.twitter.com/vowMVOid
I’m loving these tweets. You can follow her blog here, and her twitter here.
(via lianaloves)
