This is truly horrifying.
Eight people dead, six of them Asian women.
And soon, we'll learn all about them and who they were in life,
but all we know right now is that they are dead,
and a 21-year-old white man with a gun killed them.
And...
what's been... sad about the story is
not just the loss of life, but all of the auxiliary things
that have been happening around the story.
You know? Like one of the first things
that's been the most frustrating for me
is seeing the shooter say,
"Oh, it wasn't racism, it was sex addiction."
First of all, (bleep) you, man.
You killed six Asian people.
Specifically, you went there.
If there's anyone who's racist, it's a mother(bleep)
Who kills six Asian women.
Your murders speaks louder than your words.
Six Asian women were killed.
And you know, in a way, what makes it even more painful is
that we saw it coming.
We see these things happening.
People have been warning.
People in the Asian community have been tweeting.
They've been saying, "Please, help us.
"We're getting punched in the streets.
"We're getting slurs literally written on our doors.
"We're getting people coming up to us just saying,
"'Thanks for... thanks for COVID.
Thanks for spoiling the world.'"
We've seen this happening.
And while we're fighting for it,
there are many people who have been like,
"Oh, stop being so woke and so dramatic.
"Kung flu. Come on. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha. It's just a joke."
Yeah, yeah, it's a joke that has come
at one of the most tense times in human history.
You knew that something like this could happen.
If you just apply your mind,
you know that it's going to happen.
This guy didn't go and kill these women by mistake.
It wasn't a... It's like, he-he knew what he was doing.
And it's so frustrating
to see this keep happening in America over and over again.
America sees things coming.
It knows something is going to happen,
but it does nothing to stop it.
But then it's all, all, all in, on saying,
"Oh, so tragic, oh, so...
Who could have predicted this tragedy?"
Anyone who was looking at it could.
Why are people so invested
in solving the symptoms instead of the cause?
America does this time and time again.
A country that wants to fight the symptoms
and not the underlying conditions
that cause those symptoms to take effect.
Racism, misogyny, gun violence, mental illness, and honestly,
this incident might have been all of those things combined,
because it doesn't have to be one thing on its own.
America has a rich tapestry of mass shooting motivations.
But whatever you do, please don't tell me
that this thing had nothing to do with race.
Even if the shooter says that.
He thinks it had to do with his sex addiction.
You can't disconnect this violence
from the racial stereotypes that people attach to Asian women.
This guy blamed a specific race of people for his problems,
and then murdered them because of it.
If that's not racism, then the word has no meaning.
And as if the violence, as if the-the trauma isn't enough,
the-the part that breaks my brain--
and I think so many people get affected by this as well,
because it feels like you're crazy when you're watching it--
is where you see the police officer come out,
and almost trying to humanize the shooter
more than the people who got shot.
"He was at the end of his rope.
It-it was a bad day for him."
For him?
Yo, yesterday was a bad day for him?
No, yesterday was a bad day
for all the people who lost their lives.
"It's a bad day for..."
It's-it's always interesting
who police try and find the humanity in.
Like, I can guarantee you,
if a black person or brown person went
on a mass killing spree in a white neighborhood,
not a (bleep) would a police officer go on TV and say,
"well, he was kind of at the end of his rope,
and-and this is what they did."
They barely have patience for black protesters
who are not killing anybody.
And the frustrating thing is, that it did not have to happen.
It does not have to happen.
From the top to the bottom, the politicians
who are gonna cry now and say, "Oh, we're so sorry,"
yeah, but when it's happening.
When politicians are out there saying, "Kung Flu,"
and all of this, what are we doing then?
We can all do something to try and fight against this.
We can't stop every evil person. Please, I'm not saying that.
Oh, somebody's gonna be like,
"Oh, there's always gonna be evil."
Yeah, but you know what we can try and do
is create an environment
where we're not letting specific people be targeted
because of the color of their skin.
In this instance, find an anti-hate organization.
Try and work with them.
Reach out to people who need support.
Donate your money, donate your time, whatever you can,
but do something.
And most importantly,
let's try to (bleep) pay attention
so that it doesn't happen again.
Because the truth is, we could see this coming.