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Friends who have said to me, with such genuine sentiment in their eyes and words, “You’re actually so pretty for an Asian.”

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I used to never want to talk about racism because I didn’t want to offend white people with my blackness. I don’t think white people are bad or inherently evil, they are people and I am an equal opportunity hater.

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At a site in Eastern Washington, researchers uncovered a lost internment camp used to detain over 250 people of Japanese heritage during WWII.

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I wish I had not let my white counterparts persuade me into thinking I wasn’t good enough because it hasn’t done me any good. Here I am today, still discontent, still worried, and still caught up in how I’m perceived as a minority by other people, mostly whites.

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Turns out, the joke’s on Fadi.

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You think sexism in America is dead, because women can vote and act as the primary breadwinners in 40 percent of American families or whatever? False.

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What I hope for is for white people to accept an invitation to be a part of something resilient, beautiful and brave. To choose to stand with black people and never for black people.

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By allowing white supremacy to go unchallenged, I am implicated.

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Racial minorities are being targeted, stopped, called names, roughed up, and threatened — and for no legitimate reason.

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Why are some of us boys and the others a menace to society? You tell me.