George Floyd death sparks Asian American soul-searching

, a black man, in Minneapolis police custody sparked nationwide protests - and a sense of reckoning in the Asian American community, which has historically fraught, even violent, ties with African Americans.

One of the worst examples was during the 1992 protests in Los Angeles over the police killing of Rodney King, a black man. Massive rioting broke out during the demonstrations, most of which occurred in the Koreatown neighborhood. Even using slogans like"Yellow Peril Supports Black Power" or"Asian Americans for Black Lives Matter," Quach said,"ignores and minimises the harm that the AAPI community has inflicted on the black community within the last 50 years," even if unintentionally.

CAAL has provided support for Asian Americans in Minnesota who joined the demonstrations, and OCA has launched several programs explicitly about Asian-black relations, including a workshop on the model minority myth and a virtual summit on Afro-Asian solidarity. "Anti-blackness is not just something that you can name and it disappears," said Jenny Tam, a 21-year-old student at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who is of Chinese-Vietnamese heritage.After Floyd's death, Tam created a Facebook group called"Asian America for Black Power" to connect Asian Minnesotans who wanted to go to protests together.

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