Hugging Asians

By Dyske    July 13th, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvEeAJF_OIU

I just got this email. I’m not sure what to make of this because I haven’t heard about the death of Tian Sheng, but it looked interesting. So, check it out and let me know what you know/think.

I wanted to bring your attention to huggingasians.com, a response to the recent Asian-Black tensions in and around the San Francisco/Oakland area. It began as response to the death of Tian Sheng Yu at the hands of two Black men. Now, it’s become ORIENT. I hope you can spread the word about this so we can get a conversation started.

All good wishes,
k~
kevinsimmonds.com

2 Responses

  1. Kevin Simmonds says:

    July 13th, 2010 at 10:37 pm

    Dyske,

    Thanks for posting this. I’ve lived in Asia (Japan & Singapore) and know how tedious relationships between Asians (both Asian Americans and immigrants) and Blacks (African Americans, etc.) can be. I’d like people to think about how 19th-century anthropology (which said that, based on skull sizes, diet and other ways of living, that Asians/Mongoloids and Blacks/Negroids were inferior to White/Caucasians) influenced the Western world’s perceptions of Asians and Blacks and, as both groups continue to vie for their places in the West, they oftentimes forget some of their shared history and victimized each other.

    Thanks again for this site!

    k~

  2. Brooke says:

    September 22nd, 2011 at 12:29 am

    Thank you for this. I hate seeing stories about things like Tian Sheng Yu’s death, and this response proves that I’m not crazy for attempting to see the best in people.

    I long for the day when ‘race’ is a strange, alien word, a word of the past, where the people of the world, a cafe au lait colored world, look back and wonder: What were they thinking? When the race of this world, the human race, has long realized that only by accepting our differences and putting our strengths together, can we truly make a world worth being proud of.

    I’ll tell you one thing. It’s things like this video that are getting that started.