Fuck Your Yellow Peril.

 On the 16th of March, 1991, in South Central L.A., 15-year-old Latasha Harlins was murdered by Korean-born store-owner

Soon Ja Du. Ja Du accused the teen of stealing a $1.79 bottle of orange juice. Ja Du was first convicted of involuntary manslaughter and recommended a 15-year sentence. However, a judge later concluded that Ja Du was not a threat to the community; she then only received a minimal penalty of a $500 fine and 400 hours of community service. Photo from Teen Vogue. 

Light-skinned East Asians: 

Fuck your yellow peril. 

It is 2020: POC solidarity does not exist and anti-Blackness is global. 

Consider yourself entitled to not have ever heard of Latasha Harlins up until now, nor understand the legacy of Nora Lum and so many others' choosing minstrelsy of the 2.5% of which their 24%  of their neighborhoods never had nor will have a right to claim. 

That your understanding of mining as repayment for the perpetually insidious practice of colonial debt has not also been established by the governments of your motherlands. 

 The same malignant settler-colonial project established by white folks in this country which some of your own are replicating on continental Africa right fucking now, in burglarizing natural resources, to justify dehumanizing its people for capital gain.

How dare you equate your struggles to prior centuries of oppression and genocide of African people worldwide via accumulating and mutilating our bodies? You cannot equalize your historical experiences of marginalization by the West to the parasitic relationship its cast with Africa that which the entire globe has made its business is foul. 

How dare you claim to be oppression when you too, expand the colonial project of gentrification and hold zero regards for your violence against us.

You too, buy up property in our communities, invest in industries that we have relied on to bolster our sense of pride, beauty, and authenticity. 

 How dare you fuck us and drink and eat and twerk with or alongside us, then backhand any chance we take in calling you out on it? 

When we tell you that you're eating us alive in the same cannibalizing and genocidal way that yt settlers who brought us here have. That you too are seen as yt by your Brown (and Black) counterparts indigenous to your homelands. 

You don't do dissent, you perform it.

You don't do solidarity, you perform it. 

You're not really here for our liberation. 

You haven't really been here for much beyond 

the exploitation of our material manifestations 

that conceal and ameliorate the reality of our conditions.

To my East Asians: fuck your yellow peril.

Signed,

 

One of many y'all got fucked up.