them, he looks at them in their crumpled piles and says we are not sick men. as a kid in the 80s, when i saw that, hoo, i felt it. i wasn t chinese. i had no idea of the history of japan and china, but as a black kid in america i understood the need to stand up to your oppressors. and just since the beginning i understand that all people s struggles are connected. it felt like me and bruce were the same. of course, he meant way more to asian americans than he meant to me. but bruce s fights onscreen were nothing compared to his fights offscreen, a fight for representation in media, a fight to end racism by teaching martial arts to everybody, a fight to stand up for his people. anti-asian attacks and hate crimes as we know have been rising sharply thinking episode is about how asian americans are still fighting those fights. no more hate! is it happening? it s happening. oh my god. that s mine. don t touch it. i think we re eating family-style. that s mine
creates the false idea that asian americans are just generally doing well. meanwhile, they have the largest wealth gap in new york city. asian americans have some of the highest poverty rates in all of new york. nearly one in four asian americans live below the poverty line. the rich are really rich. but the poor are really poor. and those folks need representation too. i m not talking hollywood. i m talking about representation in the halls of power, politics. thank you. thank you. the best chai in town. yeah, cheers. julie won is a newly elected queens councilmember, and she is here for those people. we re in an area in the city called dutch hills or astoria. this area is working class imimmigrants. so we have a huge filipino