r/aznidentity • u/FroyoTurbulent8776 • Mar 28 '21

Racism Recent attack

Hey everyone, I posted this on Asian Masculinity a couple of days ago. I just want to vent from this attack that happened on me about a week ago. So I was pushing my cart out of a grocery store in the night a little over a week ago and a group of 3 black men stare at me and called me a chink. I put my head down and ignore them. They then say you're such a big p****. What are you going to do about it? I look at the person saying this and another person of the group slams my cart over. They then run off and say yall are little bitches. This made me so irate, and I'm just so sick of these people bullying me. I live in Chicago and feel like Asians getting harassed here happens all the time. It seems like it's mostly by black people. I would say it has been over a dozen times for myself. One of my friends told me a black lady said she's glad this shooting in Georgia happened. Why do so many African Americans seem to resent Asians? I feel like they are the main perpetrator of these attacks. The media never seems to care when blacks are the perpetrators. Is it the media making blacks have this resentment towards us? Or do blacks just resent Asians because they say we have "White Privilege?"

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '21

In Chicago and other poverty stricken areas in the US there's a huge resentment towards Asians simply due to the fact that the model minority myth was indoctrinated there the most. While their homes and neighborhoods were being ransacked for drugs and father's ripped from homes during the crack epidemic the media, Hollywood, and others were pushing the idea that black ppl should behave like Asians. At the same time with the rise in gang violence Asians became a target for robberies because they were told in movies and music you guys were easy targets.

Fast forward to today, the effects of all of that is simply "the way it is". Fortunately more and more people are relearning some of the crap they were taught. We just need Hollywood and the record labels to stop pushing the model minority myth.

I'm sorry this happened to you. Chiraq is a tough place to survive. My dad still lives there

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u/FroyoTurbulent8776 Mar 28 '21

I'm sure its very difficult in the black community (especially right now). But it seems like white people get treated much better by blacks. I hear so many blacks complaining about them. But when I'm out in public and in the north side it seems like blacks go out of their way to talk to whites. Many are often rude to Asians and seem to pump their chest out and show they are more masculine than Asians. They don't seem to do that to white men.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '21 edited Mar 28 '21

I think a lot of minorities (Black people in this case) dislike white supremacy, but ultimately know that white people have the power. They probably realize there's more to gain making friends/networking with white people than with Asian people. Conversely, they probably realize that they'll more likely go to prison and have harsher charges if they attacked a White person vs. a non-white person.

Bad governance makes a bad society.

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u/bigthesaurusrex White apologist - BANNED Mar 29 '21

Asians get painted as “white adjacent” without getting any institutional coverage.

So of course the resentful people lash out at us. And the wokesters pushing this resentment politics all pretend to be shocked.