A message for Asian descent people
Everything you might experience or benefit comes from white supremacy
We are in a position that is called the “Myth of Model Minority”. In order to better control BIPOC, white people divided Asian-descent people. They called us the “good immigrants”, the “hardworkers” that white supremacy can use and exploit against black people and other POC communities.
We can’t, we can’t fall into the white supremacy manipulation.
We can’t seek help from other communities if we are complicite. If we never educate ourselves and our families. If we never learn about our position, our privilege and the specifity of the Myth of Model Minority/MMM.
The modern consequences are multiple but I want to adress certain things that we have to realize and acknowledge within our community.
— Being upset to hear, see, read the word “white”, “colonialism” is white supremacy.
— Obsession to know, discuss, hang out, date only white people is white supremacy.
— Wishing to have babies only with a white partner to have children “less asian” is white supremacy.
This goes with the social focus to mixed White-Asian people and the erasure of Asian descent children of immigration and other biracial Asian people.
— Saying weird things like “oh my skin is just like a white person’s skin, so sad I have this face” is white supremacy.
— Accepting clichès like “Good at math, the #1 at school, chink-slurs, comments about our genitals, weakness, exotism” is white supremacy.
— Ignoring, denying, tone-policing, shaming BIPOC, especially black people is white supremacy.
— Harassing Asian-descent people with darker skin tones, shaming children and youngsters because of darker skin tone or more tanned skin is white supremacy
— Accepting and applying binary, neo-colonialist gender roles is white supremacy. Being against binary gender-diverse people, non-binary people from Asian descendance is white supremacy.
— Accepting patriarchal mindset, sexist behaviours and education that come from white colonizers, is white supremacy.
— Avoiding helping, supporting, donating to BIPOC is white supremacy. Black people who could be: African-American, Afro Caribbean, Afropean, Afro-Latinx people, North-African people, Native American people, Indigenious people.
Covid-19 just reminded us that we are not white and will never be treated like them.
Covid-19 reminded us that we experience racialization, colonisation of our faces, cultures and ancestors.
Covid-19 reminded us that white people can AT ANY TIME target us as the evil “yellow peril” danger.
White people are the people who colonized us. The people who destroyed, stole, exploited our ancestors, families and change our countries deeply (socially, geographically, politically, economically).
Do we still want to look like them ?
We have to understand that even though we experience racism, there is no comparison possible to anti-Blackness and what Black people have experienced.
For white supremacy: we are the good doggos that they can pet whenever and however they want.
White people will never treat us as violently as they treat Black people.
It’s important to remember that we are relatively close to whiteness : some mixed-race people could whitepass and never talk about their Asian heritage and our skin can often appear technically white.
We benefit from white supremacy, we have privileges, we have access. We can’t deny that.
We also owe so much to Black people, they wrote and analysed white supremacy more than anyone else, and helped our activism and our writers to advocate.
It is more than time to listen to other communities, especially Black people, to learn and to build solidarity with BIPOC people, with migrants and undocumented people, with feminists and women of colour, with trans BIPOC rights and activisms, with disabled BIPOC people, with fat BIPOC people.
