The Southeast Asian Anti-Racism Toolkit

Jun 10

Art by Vanessa Nguyễn (Instagram @nessafiesta)

On May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, Southeast Asian police officer Tou Thao stood guard watching as white killer-cop Derek Chauvin arrested and murdered George Floyd, taking a beloved Black man away from his family and two young daughters.

As Southeast Asians, we stand with Black Lives Matter and reject white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and racist US violence––police, prisons, military, cages at the border–-against Black and Brown people. Many Southeast Asian refugee families struggle to survive under the same systems that fail Black people every day––racial profiling, policing, deportation, poverty, unequal opportunity, lack of access to essential resources. Still, so many buy into white conservative, racist politics to “get ahead.” We can’t win when we choose ways of thinking and systems that hurt us. We can choose differently.

This Southeast Asian Antiracism Toolkit is designed to help our community take on the work and hard conversations needed to heal anti-Blackness and racism. We benefit from and ower a huge debt–-past and ongoing–-to Black people fighting for change. Healing these systems is also urgent work if we want the Southeast Asian community to thrive in this country.

This is a crowdsourced, living document, viewable by all with trusted, tightly curated content to ensure content aligns with values and the expertise of Southeast Asian leaders fighting for racial justice,. Made for and by everyday people who love our people deeply and care about social justice. (The Southeast Asian Anti-Racism Toolkit, page 3).

Click here to access the toolkit, a view-only Google doc. #SEA4BlackLives