This piece first appeared in our February 2021 Magazine.
Entering the spring semester and taking my first ever print-making class, I knew I wanted to have my first assignment correlate to Black History Month.
The tension between minority groups and Black lives should never be questioned, yet it has always been.
While all BIPOC fall prey to the hands of white privilege, minority groups have internalized self-hate and hatred towards other POC in the aims of better fitting into our predominately white-owned society. We have turned against one another for years prior and some continue to do so.
I wanted to dedicate this piece to all the Vietnamese people that are in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement. I know that many of our family memebrs are quick to point out Black sterotypes that have been fed to them.
I heard how Black people are “dirty”, “angerous or “lazy” and how I should be lucky I’m not Black.
Asians have been used as the “model minority” since they persevered from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and belive that all other minority groups should work the way that we have “worked” or should behave in the way that we have “behaved”.
The truth of the matter is that BIPOC will never be white. That as much as Asian people long for White acceptance; our accents, our eye shape and our skin color tell otherwise.
“No justice. No peace.”
