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Raymond Chang

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May 15

Let's be clear, no one wants to get rid of or replace people who are racialized as white. We simply want all people to live justly, mercifully, and humbly. The only way to do that in a racialized society is to dismantle white supremacy. White supremacy is what we want to replace.

The only people who believe that people of color want to get rid of "white people" are those who have bought into or are spreading propaganda and conspiracy theories OR those who are committed to white supremacy itself.

We want all people to live in just conditions harmoniously.

If you believe in some "replacement theory," know that it is driven by white supremacists who want to maintain a white supremacist structure, and believe in the superiority of whiteness. The replacement theory is purely fear mongering to rile up a political base against equality.

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Raymond Chang

@tweetraychang

May 15

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1525605943588933633

The Model Minority Myth, honorary whiteness, white adjacency, and other stereotypes that are imposed on Asian Americans and then bought into by Asian Americans need to be interrogated, uprooted, and obliterated.

Asians should want nothing to do with this.

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1525605943588933633

It is noteworthy that he contrasts East Asians. Somehow, the 18 year old white supremacist had enough nuanced thinking to carve out East Asians from the entire Asian diaspora.

This means, in the social imagination & his own experience, that East Asians were model minorities.

To fellow East Asians, ask yourself if you are the minority that this white supremacist would applaud. In fact, all people should ask if they are the type of person this killer would want to see ruling the world with him. Would your presence disrupt his thinking and beliefs?

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Raymond Chang

@tweetraychang

May 15

https://twitter.com/austinkellerman/status/1525597004168036353

How many of these are required before people are willing to acknowledge that white supremacy is a pervasive evil?

An 18 y.o. - meaning he was likely a graduating senior - writes an anti-Black manifesto, drives several hours, then kills 10 people.

And CRT is the problem?

https://twitter.com/austinkellerman/status/1525597004168036353

Pray for the parents and loved ones of those who will not be spending their evenings and the rest of their days with their loved ones because someone was indoctrinated to believe that white people are being replaced and are under threat in the US.

What we saw in #Buffalo is a part of the same strain of white supremacist entitlement that led to the shootings in a Black church in Charleston, Synagogue in Pittsburg, Walmart in El Paso, a Sikh Gudwara in Wisconsin, etc.

It’s an evil that needs to be worked out of our society.

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Raymond Chang

@tweetraychang

Feb 24

I grew up hearing vaguely sketched stories about the Korean War. It was clear that the devastation and havoc that my family members experienced had marked them their entire lives. It was never easy for my grandmothers to speak on the realities they experienced.

The only tangible story I was able to get out of my mom’s mom was the story of how she clung into a makeshift trolly that was going from one town to another in order to get rice rations. They were connected by rope, which sometimes broke.

If one rope loosened or tore, every cart behind it was left behind. It was tenuous at best. But she said she had to risk the dangerous journey in order to provide for her family. It was either temporary safety and possible starvation or rations and real danger.

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Raymond Chang

@tweetraychang

Nov 7, 2021

In Korea, the norm is for you to wear a mask to both protect yourself and others. If you *might* be sick, you would wear a mask out of consideration for the others you interact with. Was it inconvenient? Of course, but that’s what loving neighbor requires.

One of my graduate students from Taiwan was shocked when in a class, the professor asked what does freedom in Christ mean?

She was dismayed when some of her Americans classmates said, “the freedom to do whatever we want since we are no longer bound by the consequences of sin.”

When they asked for clarity, they learned that they meant exactly what was shared.

For her, “Freedom in Christ meant giving up your individual rights for the sake of following Jesus. It was cruciform. Death to self for the sake of others and for the glory of God.”

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Raymond Chang

@tweetraychang

Oct 28, 2021

I am hearing so much from pastors who are beyond burnout from everything that has been taking place (from Covid to political division to racial injustice and sexual abuse and beyond). Here are a few things I have been encouraging pastors and church leaders to do…

1) Have elders, deacons, and lay leaders take ownership of planning the worship services outside of preaching. Give them guidelines, provide a short training, but for the next six months to a year, let different leaders take a service and run with it.

2) Bring in guest preachers. If you have elders who preach, let them take more of the pulpit. But if not, there are plenty of people - including seminarians - who can preach. If the timing is right and I have the bandwidth, I’m happy to fill in for you on a Sunday.

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