it's scary
just to be an asian-american woman
anywhere in the us
out of shock a lot of anger pain
getting tired of seeing the same news on
the headline
week after week it's heartbreaking
and yet it's not a surprise this kind of
this
hate towards asian americans has been
building for years it's still
really heartbreaking to see that
people just let hate and racism and
illogical discrimination
take over and create such pain
am angry at the excuses made for a white
supremacist who murdered our siblings
and the inability of this country to
decide if that slaughter of six asian
women was racially motivated
i'm here tonight because i've always
been told to stay silent showing up here
tonight
was my way of like speaking up we were
brought up to be
obedient to be silent this is a time
critical time to actually take a stand
have our voices heard
this is really urgent to like speak up
hold space for what happened
and you know i think there's so much
work we have to do to make sure
that violence like this never happens
again people will realize the kind of
microaggressions and the deep societal
issues
that have arisen from you know things
like foot and situation and just
blaming of the other and people need to
take a deeper look at what's happening
in their communities and hold themselves
more accountable
none of this is going to stop if you
keep letting people just fly by because
you're too afraid to
encounter it
you