it's important, like Medellin reiterates, with education just continuously being exposed to information about the ways in which we're de racialized in our home countries and then hyper racialized in the US, which creates that this almost like schizophrenia of sorts. Right? Which is very interesting. But I'm very proud to see more and more of us Latin next, people standing up and saying like I'm not an ally. I am central to this black
How are Asians perceived today? How are they being racialized today? Well, I'll tackle that question by just saying I think it depends on where you sit, right?
law by Congress. So really, if we think back over the last 100, 150 years, our identity as Asian-Americans has always been racialized , and in fact has been connected to detention, deportation, more militarized enforcement of all kinds.
and you were the right person to do it? Because we have so many racialized stereotypes, right?
So there's a lot of concrete issues around which we can build solidarity that actually totally resonate and that we can divide up that issue as being a racialized issue, as a gender issue. And when people are able to build, not only see their own families affected, but also develop that empathy to build solidarity with others, I
And there's like three things that they can point to. And one of them is me uh there is a good deal of of racialized animosity demonstrated towards these
So as African-Americans, we too have childhood trauma. Then we also carry the trauma of our racialized experience here in the United States. We carry the historical trauma of slavery and the stories of slavery and the experiences.
mainly on housing policy in the United States, specifically after World War Two with suburbanization and the Latin X Community. We were very nuanced. And we have a very complicated history within policy because we are this racialized ethnic group where on media in education were presented as white and sometimes indigenous, very rarely we presented as black. But then
That's not what caught on. But what does happen in the 1960s is soul becomes racialized and radicalized. So black power advocates in the 1960s-- still carrying on the cultural momentum from the 1920s and 30s and 40s-- are trying to figure out well, now,
In the Jim Crow South, segregation did not literally mean the separation of races. And there's a lived and felt component to racialized thought, which unconsciously shapes our emotional responses, our daily interactions with others, and our general experience of the world.
But oftentimes, we're lumped together. And maybe-- the term sometimes is used is we're racialized . And given today, where we're at today with the Trump administration, with various events that have happened recently--
militarized enforcement of all kinds. So it's not something new to think about being racialized . In fact, that's been, really, our history from excluding us from coming into the country and then how we're treated once we're in the country or even citizens.
But this idea that people actually thought that we would take a privileged, multimillionaire rich white lady that has a dynasty to be So we know that state-sanctioned violence has been racialized throughout the history of this country.
but, of course, Ricky Martin is a white man. In Puerto Rico, he's socialized and racialized as a white man. And nobody was going to take that away from him.
Station Foundation. And so that was where the Chinese Exclusion Act was enforced in the United States. And the Chinese Exclusion Act-- so this was adopted in 1882-- was the first racialized , racially-focused exclusionary law by Congress. So really, if we think back over the last 100, 150 years, our identity as Asian-Americans
And so that's definitely what it was like for me. I had a very colorblind in terms of my-- not in terms of my understanding of myself as a racialized person but in terms of how does race cause different people to achieve different things.
So in order for us to get beyond some of this, we've got to get people to be activized not only in communities, but in corporations and in businesses. So you asked the question, Allen, about being racialized as a group. And I heard that you heard from Buck Gee last week or a couple weeks ago.
It's time for me to step up and say something, because I not only do I have the platform, but I also have the ability to kind of pull this thing through? What was it about George Floyd as opposed to some of the other instances of racialized violence against Black people? It's a great question, Brandon.
and do not have a little experience off a black person, no matter the shade of brown that we are. So I think that it's important, like Medellin reiterates, with education just continuously being exposed to information about the ways in which we're de racialized in our home countries and then hyper racialized in the US, which creates that this almost like schizophrenia of sorts. Right?
what would become chattel slavery, Um, in British North America. So, um, why that matters, of course, is the English landed at Jamestown in 16 oh, seven. And the fact that it only took 12 years before racialized slavery was introduced into the colonies, I think, really speaks to how foundational slavery would be to the country that would develop. This is 150 years before we even decide we want
and Langston Hughes in opposing those same stereotypes. Second, in the '50s, American readers of children's literature saw animal characters as distinctly racialized . In fact, in both racist and anti-racist children's literature, differences between animals have had a long history of representing differences between and similarities among races.