Michelle Lam

Our Experiences With Racism

Added 2021-03-28 19:53:45 +0000 UTC

Like many others in the AAPI community, the recent rise in hate crimes towards Asian Americans has caused a lot of internalized experiences with racism to resurface. At first I wasn't sure if I should make a post like this, but then I realized I would only be contributing to the lack of awareness to what has actually been going on for yearrrsss. Hate crimes towards the AAPI community is nothing new and it's been happening for a long time. There was even an uptick in the hate crimes last year when the pandemic began, but many people chose to still ignore it. Apparently it took a whole mass shooting for people to begin to care, and I hope it doesn't have to happen this way again for anyone of any background. While I'm glad to see that steps are being taken to help our community, there's still a lot of work to do, myself included.