White Accountability.

In this entire journey, it has been one population who has believed, seen, and responded to us;

It has been the Asian American community, particularly the women. Almost exclusively the women!

In our journey to escape. Who called the advocates to come for us? Who told us they would refrain from calling the cops on our own blood, on our own kin endangering us? The Korean American women.

Who came to our aid when the pandemic was declared? Who paid our rent, who sent us cash for food, to keep the lights on and the heat running?

The Korean American communities in K town in Los Angeles and Chicago.

Who stood up and called the crime what is was in Atlanta? It was not a tragedy. It was a hate crime of racialized misogyny against Korean American women. There is an assault on our lives, not in the open, not running rampantly for all to see.

Because we are reduced to nothing but a bad day for a white boy who could annihilate us like we are a CGI girl in a video game.

Because we are not seen as fully human or worthy enough to fight on behalf of, even when we are paying for advocacy. We are silenced and we are made to be grateful for your generous complicity or conditional crumbs that you make us beg to eat from the ground you stand and piss on.

It was never anyone but our own women who came to our aid.

And while that is incredible in showing how collective our power is, how collectively the…