Anti-GOP protest part of big month for Milwaukee-area peace movement wuwm.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wuwm.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sunday, August 6, 2023 at 6 PM to 9 PM Lincoln Park Picnic Areas 3 and 4 Just north of Hampton Ave, and northwest of Lincoln Park Pavilion on Milwaukee River Parkway (bring chairs) 6 PM - Japanese Lantern-making, folding origami peace cranes, story-telling of “Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes.” 7 PM -…
Fight Anti-Blackness with our Asian Parents mochimag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mochimag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Fight Anti-Blackness with our Asian Parents
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“You can never date or marry a Black person.”
These words, or some version of them, may be familiar to you. They were spoken by my parents when they forbade me from attending a school formal with a Haitian American friend, and these words were repeated to my brother and myself throughout our young adult and adult life.
Growing up in New York one of the most diverse, yet highly segregated, metro areas in the United States I heard fellow Asian Americans use racist stereotypes to not only justify that our communities were simply too different to mix, but to also scapegoat, dehumanize and devalue Black people. The model minority myth made us think we were more hardworking, more white-adjacent, and more deserving of success. My father told me I caught lice from hanging out with too many Black girls, and my mother locked car doors, averted her eyes, and pulled me closer when Black men passed by.