![]() The cost for proximity to the American dream is always steep-especially when it includes accepting anti-Black racism. "Sure, Asian Americans have been able to attain the most upward mobility out of all minority groups, but at what cost?" "Asian Americans have been pitted against African Americans for a long time," says Huang. On the other, a huge gathering of Chinese Americans shouted "Peter Scapegoat," demanding that Liang not be convicted for shooting an innocent, unarmed Black man-when white cops typically get away scot-free with that offense. On one side, the crowd chanted Black Lives Matter. One can't help but think of the protests outside the courthouse where ex-NYPD officer Peter Liang, the son of Chinese immigrants, was convicted for the death of Akai Gurley. Anti-blackness is real in America-including among Asian Americans-but so is anti-Asian and anti-'other.' We're relegated to having to fight amongst ourselves." ![]() ![]() But the execution is too often to point a finger at black people. "How they gone hate on a real nigga?" he wondered.Īccording to Seattle-based event producer/community organizer Michael Huang, the intent of protest actions like the petition within Asian communities "is ostensibly to advocate and stand up for ourselves. ![]() ![]() On YG's Snapchat, the rapper aimed his camera at some of the protesters outside of his show, who called for an apology. Protests have sprung up outside of YG concerts nationwide in the wake of the petition. Trump surrogates have even attempted to shift blame for their candidate's repugnant comments about women onto the terrible examples set by rap music.Īttempts to ban rap songs are as old as rap itself, and because the internet makes "banning" a virtual impossibility anyway, you have to ask what these efforts are really about. Meanwhile, hiphop is still- still-a target when conservative America needs to vilify Black people en masse. Is the idea that the so-called Model Minority wouldn't mind a little lighthearted prejudice or that they'd be too passive to object? In this, rap is sadly keeping pace with the worst of mainstream white America-look at the recent "Chinatown" segment on The O'Reilly Factor, or the (thankfully curbed) development of NBC show Mail Order Family. ![]()
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