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I want to tell you about these Asian & Black solidarity stories @JessicaQChen & I did for @latimes. @diananguyenart's art is so beautiful & the video makes me tear up, watching @rtajima @DocMellyMel @zentronix talk & @ashlynso_ representing our future.🧵
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After Atlanta spa shootings, @JessicaQChen wanted to film young Asian American activists. She found 13-year-old @ashlynso_ in Oakland organizing a Black & Asian solidarity rally, after the viral videos of Asian seniors being attacked were causing tensions.
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The narrative that it was Black assailants attacking Asians didn't match the data. @rtajima & @zentronix released #SeeUsUnite May 19 Project, named after Malcolm X & Yuri Kochiyama's shared bday, to remind people of a history of Asian American solidarity
Without movements led by Black Americans — such as the Civil Rights Movement — most Asian Americans in the U.S. today would not be here. Click on this thread to learn more!
Part of our collaboration with #May19thProject
Part of our collaboration with #May19thProject
