Y. Vue
2 min readMar 19, 2021

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Ah, and I see now you're talking about the first paragraph where I talk about "a large number." Yes, because in the neighborhoods where we lived, it was a large number of our Black neighbors who openly showed their disdain for us. It was hard to find a compassionate neighbor who would back you up. Those who weren't hostile towards us were largely silent in those days, which has fostered itself into the resentments of today. When those are the only Black people you know, it's what informs your world view of Black people. So while not all the Black people in the neighborhood were bad, nobody stepped in either. From microagression to robbery, theft, beatings of Asians, I know it's hard for a lot of Black folks who don't live near this kind of stuff would feel defensive and want to say "but that's not us, that's not me," it doesn't help to deny that it is a pervasive problem in other neighborhoods. It is true that old school Asians are mostly pacifists, hence why we're so targeted. In the end, the call is for everyone to step up and look at our communities as a whole and to say "Yes, we are all responsible for our village, for our community." There is no room here for a individualism mindset. That fixes no problems. So yes, Black folks must speak up and act when they see wrong done from their own against others. Right now, the leader of BLM NY just tweeted anti-Asian hate, yet in the comment sections, so many Black people are defending him. Where are the compassionate Pro-Asian Black folks to condemn and cancel him? How is this feeding into the language of unity when he gets a pass and his platform is literally MILLIONS of Black people? This is the problem here. We need collective power and collective voices to REALLY do the work and to REALLY work for the change, and we cannot avoid reality because it makes us uncomfortable.

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Y. Vue
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Treading that fine line of common sense.

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