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About those "letters to my Asian parents about anti-black racism"

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Hello, TTSG heads: Andy here, trying my hand at this thing by exploring a topic of potential interest for listeners. There’s been an endless stream of commentary on US racism and policing in the weeks since George Floyd’s murder in late May. One phenomenon that may have escaped the public’s notice, but which “very online” Asian diaspora have likely seen, is a genre of writing by younger Asian-Americans raising awareness over anti-black racism within their own families, often in the form of a “letter to my parents” about Asian anti-blackness. A friend alerted me to

Hello, TTSG heads: Andy here, trying my hand at this thing by exploring a topic of potential interest for listeners. There’s been an endless stream of commentary on US racism and policing in the weeks since George Floyd’s murder in late May. One phenomenon that may have escaped the public’s notice, but which “very online” Asian diaspora have likely seen, is a genre of writing by younger Asian-Americans raising awareness over anti-black racism within their own families, often in the form of a “letter to my parents” about Asian anti-blackness. A friend alerted me to this exchange on…

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