as a black person, I definitely feel the pain over what happened to Latasha and over the horrible relations between the black and asian community but this does not mean that those poor women in atlanta deserved to be murdered, or that asians as a whole have chosen a side due to the horrible actions of one asian person a few years ago.
i also definitely identify with the crappy experience of watching the way that some asians have conflated black issues with asian issues / have tried to make their support for our issues conditional on us supporting them vs them supporting us because its the right thing to do period.
we definitely have some healing to do, but saying all asians choose a side, and that that is somehow a justification for the horrible racist and misgonystic murder that happened is wrong and racist
I’m just gonna say the Asian community shot Latasha Harlins
One particularly racist Korean business tyrant shot Latasha Harlins.
they shot at black people in the LA riots
Largely a myth perpetuated by racist-ass white supremacists, who want to justify the police brutality that kicked off the LA Riots to begin with. No one was killed by “Roof Koreans”. And, in the moment, a great deal of the outrage among Korean residents was aimed at the LAPD which had its own long sordid history of abusing and neglecting Koreatown residents.
for all intents and purposes Asians have chosen what side they are on
Jesus fucking Christ, this is a monstrously bad take.
Even after you get off events thirty years in the rear-view mirror and specific to a single community of migrants in a single city, it implies some homogenous attitude among “Asians” that’s laughably false. Some of the worst bigotries in Asian communities are between different Asian communities (mainlander Chinese versus Taiwanese/HKers, Koreans versus Japanese, Japanese versus Chinese, Japanese versus Vietnamese, Basically Everyone against Indonesians and Malaysians).
they shot at black people in the LA riots, for all intents and purposes Asians have chosen what side they are on and they chose poorly.
not just a shit take but pretty racist too, wtf is this garbage?
