MAGA Asian American Business Owners Panic as Consumer Backlash Grows

[00:00:01]This message is for Cyrus's mom.

[00:00:04]Stop boycotting Asian businesses and stop the Asian hate.

[00:00:08]Now that I got your attention, obviously this is not something I would say to Cyrus's mom.

[00:00:12]From someone from the Asian community, I'm sorry for your loss.

[00:00:16]If you have feelings of anti-Asianness, I understand.

[00:00:22]I wouldn't even ask you to change how you feel about Asian people. All I can do is apologize.

[00:00:29]Black people want Asians to stop anti-blackness.

[00:00:33]Yes, anti-blackness is a problem in our community.

[00:00:37]And it's not right, and it's something I hope that we can change.

[00:00:42]But I just want people to understand that some of this anti-blackness doesn't come from nowhere.

[00:00:49]You can blame the system, you can blame white supremacy, but a lot of this anti-blackness comes from experience.

[00:00:57]Asian people have been victims by a small number of black people ever since Asians immigrated here.

[00:01:04]They've been stolen from, they've been robbed, they've been threatened, they've been killed.

[00:01:09]You don't hear much about it cuz it might just be an article in the news, or you don't see Asian people being outraged and boycotting whoever did anything to them.

[00:01:19]I'm not saying anti-blackness is right, but you just can't tell an Asian person, "Hey, stop being anti-black." when they have been a victim of many crimes by a very small percentage of black people.

[00:01:33]Just as much as I can't tell Cyrus's mom to get over it when Asians rarely commit any type of violence to anybody.

[00:01:42]I want us all to prosper and live in harmony, but we both need to take accountability for our actions.

[00:01:49]>> The internet is trying to convince us that Asians and blacks hate each other.

[00:01:52]So, to counter that, Asians, to show your support for black people, go eat some fried chicken and watermelon.

[00:01:57]>> Hey, yo, that is really racist. Don't do that.

[00:02:01]>> What? How is that racist? We're doing this for you.

[00:02:03]>> How is that racist? Okay, how would you feel if I told black people to show their support for Asian peoples to start eating their dogs?

[00:02:09]>> Hey, that is really offensive. Okay, what if I said stop being punctual and be late to everything and start being loud in movie theaters?

[00:02:15]>> Hey, we are a vibe and you know it.

[00:02:17]Okay, what if we said to show our support we'll just start crashing our cars? How about that?

[00:02:21]>> Oh, don't you dare say that. Have you seen Tokyo Drift? I will delete you.

[00:02:25]>> You already did. You deleted one of ours. This is how it all started.

[00:02:29]>> Well, for every one of you you delete three of ours. So, maybe we should hate each other.

[00:02:33]>> Woah, woah, woah. Okay, I think you guys kind of missed the plot here, right? You guys wanted to show Asian and black solidarity. So, how about this? Okay, you have good barbecue.

[00:02:41]>> Yeah.

[00:02:42]>> And you have good barbecue.

[00:02:44]>> You know it.

[00:02:45]>> Okay, what if next Wednesday we meet at this park at this time? We call it the black and yellow cookout. I'll be there to take photos and sign stuff. But, in the comments, one Asian to a black, reach out to one another and promise each other to bring one thing for each other at that time. And if you want to volunteer to help me organize it, please let me know in the comments below as well. But, flood the comments and let's organize this and make this happen.

[00:03:07]>> If you're an Asian American, I need you to lock in right now. It's being reported that the ports are empty [music] and shipments aren't coming in. And sooner rather than later, the shelves [music] are going to start to become empty. Once that happens, there will be a new rhetoric, okay, that China's to [music] blame.

[00:03:30]Because a certain administration will never admit fault. They're not going to blame Trump. They're not going to blame the Republican Party. Who are they going to blame? They're going to blame China. And everyone who has been hunted so far, >> [music] >> we will be hunted as well.

[00:03:49]Think back to 2020 during COVID. Think about the atmosphere that we were living under.

[00:03:56]Imagine that again, [music] but now they have a backing of a government that's willing to deport and dismiss without [music] due process. So, let that sink in, okay? I'm going to need you guys to be >> [music] >> ready.

[00:04:12]Always travel with your documents. Have a buddy system. Don't travel alone. If you get attacked, report it.

[00:04:21]>> We have gone from people placing huge orders at Chinese restaurants and not picking them up to vandalizing businesses and now this. Yeah, um I mean, this guy sucks.

[00:04:32]I don't really know what else to say. I feel like I'm going to repeat myself here, but we are not all the same and I think that's important to say again because things seem to be devolving.

[00:04:42]Yes, there's a lot of anti-blackness within our community and it is hard to fight that because we Asians collectively cannot even come together as a group. So, now would be a good time because I got a lot of comments about this in my last video in this space about, "Oh, well, what black businesses do you support?" Now would be a good time to clarify that we do support you guys. The biggest example would be during BLM with Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

[00:05:07]A lot of us did come out in support of you guys. We marched with you. We, including myself, donated to organizations like the ACLU. My point is, especially with all the discourse right now, maybe you guys don't know that there are a lot of us in support of the black community. Maybe more than you think. Social media tends to be so polarizing and the negative news always rises to the top. Also, just because I did not make a video about the Rick Chauvin verdict does not mean that I am anti-black. There was a lot to digest there. If the charge was, "Rick Chauvin stereotypes black people and that's why he chased after Cyrus," everything would be a lot simpler, but that's not how it was. There was a lot to think about and I like a human being took my time to try and really understand everything that was going on, all the details that were there, that weren't there and by the time that I had done that everyone on the internet had already said everything from both sides and I didn't feel like making a video about it. I am not a buzzword factory who turns on a camera and starts angrily shouting things like anti-blackness and proximity to whiteness every time something bad happens to a black person. Not that I'm accusing anyone of doing that.

[00:06:16]Okay?

[00:06:18]Please. I am sorry for this man. I hope he gets found and tried. We are not all like that. I hope you guys understand. I hope things don't escalate much further because we need each other.

[00:06:29]Thanks for watching.

[00:06:31]>> I just saw a video from a black creator detailing her horrific and racist work experience at a Korean company called Eban which exclusively caters to black women with hair products. And her video is linked below in the description for this video.

[00:06:48]And here is your PSA as someone who has worked for many many many Korean corporations.

[00:06:56]Don't do it.

[00:06:58]Don't do it. It doesn't matter what ethnicity you are.

[00:07:04]These companies are some of the most toxic toxic places I have had the displeasure of dealing with and I am still dealing with the trauma of my own termination last August.

[00:07:18]So if you're new here, I used to work for the only Korean car brand.

[00:07:23]And I was also wrongfully terminated, but I have not had the time or energy to bring a wrongful termination suit because I am still in the middle of a divorce and I have all these other legal issues going on. So I just do not have it in me to fight against a large corporation.

[00:07:42]But let me go into why these places are toxic.

[00:07:46]First and foremost, I am not going to excuse the racism because I saw it at my own company.

[00:07:51]Uh the one of the VPs was a black woman.

[00:07:56]And things that people would say about her in Korean. Not overtly racist, but very very stereotypical.

[00:08:08]And in hindsight, I really wish I had gone to HR about it. Except except, here's the problem. HR was also full of Koreans and or Korean-Americans, Koreans in the diaspora, right?

[00:08:22]It has something to do with the competitive culture and how that has become so so toxic, whether that company is in Korea, where I worked, or here in the US, where I also worked.

[00:08:36]And it's the same story every single time.

[00:08:39]Koreans have bullying down to an art.

[00:08:45]That's what happened to me at my company.

[00:08:48]Because you were expected to conform, if you stick out, whether in appearance, in {quote} {unquote} attitude, when you speak up about things that you feel should be talked about, but all of the executives don't, then you are singled out.

[00:09:07]And it's Like I said, it's still traumatic for me to even think about it. To this day, I have nightmares after working there for 3 years, which I only literally did because the paycheck was good.

[00:09:23]But, it's been almost a full year since that experience, and my last day there gives me nightmares. I still can't remember the full day without having a panic attack over how that happened.

[00:09:40]But, here's an example.

[00:09:42]My entire team of like five or six people would go out for coffee breaks, which it doesn't sound like a big deal, right? Except, I was the only person left out of these breaks. Blatantly. I was at my desk, and they would just walk by.

[00:09:58]No greeting, nothing. Ignored.

[00:10:02]Like I didn't exist. Like I wasn't there.

[00:10:05]And they would all come back with a coffee in their hands, laughing, etc. It wasn't the point of getting a free coffee. It's the fact that you know you're being left out, and it's not something that you did wrong. Like which is why it was wrongful termination, right? I did not do a thing that merited me being fired.

[00:10:28]Like the story that I just saw the creator, I was never trained properly. I had a one day of training, and they knew my background was not in finance. They knew that when they hired me, and I had one day of training, no training materials, there was no operations manual, nothing, because it was a new team, and that was the excuse.

[00:10:51]I was {quote} {unquote} given a chance to scale up, except without training, it's really difficult. And my manager at the time, if I asked him the same question twice with time in between, he taught me something last week, but I wanted to clarify this week, then I would get criticized for not remembering.

[00:11:11]And mind you, they knew I was going through a divorce. They knew I took off weeks because of a domestic violence situation.

[00:11:21]So, you know, maybe I was going through a trauma, but that doesn't matter to Korean corporate. To Korean corporate, your personal life should stay your personal life and you are expected to be a professional robot with no feelings and no problems outside of work.

[00:11:42]And this is not a unique experience. I had the same thing happen at the many companies I worked at in Korea and it was a large part of why I left because after small companies, like 10 employees up to 300, 400, et cetera, it didn't matter.

[00:12:04]It was the working culture itself. It was how people handled being in corporations.

[00:12:13]And there's this pride in Koreans to work for big brands, right? Like Samsung and the company I shall not name that I used to work for. That's the only Korean car company out there.

[00:12:25]Like they want to maintain their spot, so it's in their best interest to ostracize anyone that's rocking the boat.

[00:12:37]So yeah, that was just a lot of verbal vomiting and it's still really, really difficult to talk about it because I keep getting flashbacks to all the things they did to leave me out, to make me feel Well, it was to get me to quit, right?

[00:12:55]They wanted me to quit. But I wasn't going to do that and it's put me in a bind ever since then because I've been unemployed, but that's neither here nor there.

[00:13:06]So yeah, again, do not work for Korean companies, especially if you value your mental health. That paycheck, I promise you, I I really promise you, it's not worth the hassle.

[00:13:20]Legitimately, unless you are a specific type of Korean.

[00:13:27]One that is used to being amongst conforming Koreans, like you used to be a churchgoer, because Korean churches are like this, too.

[00:13:40]Then, you'll fit in fine.

[00:13:42]You'll probably be the only person that fits in fine.

[00:13:46]Otherwise, if you are anyone else that isn't that type of person, like I said, it's not worth it. The money is not worth it, because you will get so many other problems in return.

[00:14:04]And yeah, the racism is a large part of it. Korean companies do not know how to behave in the US or Korea, regardless of who their employees are. Everyone's treated like [ __ ] So, again, don't do it.

[00:14:23]Work for anywhere else.

[00:14:25]And there's also a ton of overtime on top of the other abuses that Korean corporations put their employees through. So, it really sucks to make this video and criticize yet another aspect of Korean culture, but it is what it is. It's not even a stereotype if there's like close to, I want to say, seven or eight companies that I've worked at, and I'm in my mid-30s, and they've all ended up like that.

[00:14:59]Like, there's not a single experience that I had working for a Korean company that ended well.

[00:15:04]And I speak Korean. So, I can only imagine what it's like to experience that as a non-Korean who doesn't speak Korean.

[00:15:15]Anyway, I guess happy Monday.

[00:15:19]Bye.

[00:15:20]>> So, all you token minorities out there, you need to wake up before it haunts you. This is coming from a former token Asian myself. Hook those story time, you know the deal. In high school, there was this beautiful WAsian girl in my class and I was head over heels for her, but she made it loud and clear that she was only into white boys. But, mind you, this was the norm back then. Like, back in the days, Asian guys got no love. And this, my friends, is where me running from my Korean culture begins. I started switching up my style, trying to dress like a white boy would. I started buying Vineyard Vines, Southern Tide, but buying it from the stores, this [ __ ] was expensive. So, I started getting it secondhand from like Poshmark, eBay. If I had some big money for like my birthday or something, I hit like TJ Maxx. Did it work? Did she fall for me after I got this new white boy drip?

[00:15:59]Hell no. But, in my mind, I felt like I was getting one step closer to getting a girl like her who was my type at the time. Now, fast forward to college. Up until this age, I only got attention from Asian girls in the past, like in Korean church, for example, right? But, when I went to college, I wanted to turn over a new leaf. Like, I wanted to start attracting all types of girls. So, as one does, I joined a white fraternity on campus and I was the token Asian, obviously. I got a lot of nicknames around being the token Asian, also. But, it was all okay because I was actually starting to get more girls. Like, it felt nice. Honestly, when I think about it, I think even choosing the finance major was partly rooted in my insecurities of not being white. Like, this was all my insecurities about trying to get a white girl. And now, I wanted a white life. I wanted to move to New York City, become a hot finance bro, and then move to Connecticut. How you know that you're the token is that you start segregating your world of friends.

[00:16:44]Whenever I wanted to make a plan, I always had to think who I was going to invite. Either it was going to be my white college friends or my home friends, my home friends, who were like the Asians. It was like the the Koreans, the Chinese, the Indians, and everyone else. Those white college friends always seem to make it on my Instagram posts, but my home friends, they never did. Cue the post-graduation identity crisis.

[00:17:01]From graduating until like 25 years old, I was still white Junie. Um, I was working in investment banking. My Hinge preferences were basically pulling in like a bunch of white girls or like white-passing Latina types or light skins. But, each move triggered by my insecurities would create a a scar. And those scars over these however many years, began to add up and they started turning into just like this depression inside of me. I'd see my white college friends who were all getting closer and closer together when, you know, it's like doing absolutely nothing, but here I was trying so hard to fight for their love and acceptance. And at some point, I just matured and was like, I can't do this anymore. I don't have the energy to fight. To this day, I still feel the ripples of this cultural identity crisis I've had my like pretty much my whole life. I don't even know who I am. Like I'm still working on finding that out.

[00:17:44]And this is a feeling though that I really wouldn't want to wish on a lot of people. I'm starting to embrace the fact that I'm Korean one step at a time. Like I'm going out in Koreatown now instead of the West Village all the time. And in terms of dating, I killed my type completely because having a type is what got me here in the first place. When you start idolizing a certain ethnicity, a certain group of people, you stray further and further away from yourself.

[00:18:04]I started dating around other ethnicities, other minorities. And once I started doing that, once I got rid of my physical type and moved into like a personality type, like people who were funny, caring, you know, are down to do whatever. That's where I've been like these last two or three years. And honestly, it's helped my mind so much.

[00:18:19]I've started to actually understand who the real Junie is. But that's that. The reason why I wanted to create this TikTok is I see so many of my fellow minority brothers and sisters on social media that are like, you know, trying to curate this whole lifestyle that totally isn't them. Or I'll be out in New York City and I'll see a token minority rising up a group of girls with a group of total majorities. Like, you really think they're going to let you hit, bro?

[00:18:39]What I'm telling you is what I wish I could have told my former self. You need to lock in.

[00:18:43]>> It's funny seeing Asians in my comments telling me to stop pandering, stop kissing their asses, stop betraying your people. Because what you really mean is stop talking. Now, I need to make something clear. I'm not betraying anybody. I'm not performing for anyone.

[00:18:54]I'm saying what I've seen, what I've experienced, and a lot of people only want to acknowledge it in private, if at all. And I'm definitely not going to let Asian unity be used as a shield that shuts down any conversation about harm.

[00:19:04]You don't get to turn honesty into some kind of moral failure. You don't get to call it pandering just because it interrupts the story that you're used to telling yourself. Because if talking about anti-blackness in Asian spaces makes you defensive, that reaction is the point.

[00:19:16]That's the part worth sitting with. And I'm not here to soften anything so it goes down easier. I am not that kind of person. [music] I'm here to say as it is, even if people wish I wouldn't. If black folks boycotting Asian businesses is what it takes to fast-track Asian folks into deconstructing their internalized white supremacy and anti-blackness, so be it. Boycott. I didn't apologize to the black community in my video yesterday so that y'all would magically trust me or forgive Asian people suddenly. I apologized to hold my people accountable because the Asian community owes an apology and the black community deserves to receive an apology. Is it enough? No, but is it one grain of rice in the direction of repair?

[00:19:52]I believe so.

[00:19:53]Trust can only be rebuilt through action so I will continue educating Asian folks in my life both online and in real life to deconstruct the internalized white supremacy and anti-blackness because black folks are some of the most soulful, caring people I know and y'all deserve better.

[00:20:06]>> I think this is wonderful because I think the Hispanic community could really uplift the black community given the history in between black and brown people, you know? And this is more than just like a boycott. Like I hope that you understand this as someone who is Hispanic because Hispanic people should also, if they have the option to, should go and look for black-owned businesses to shop at or even buy some of their products for. You know what I'm saying?

[00:20:36]Because it's not just about boycotting specifically Asian people. Like where I live at, it's predominantly an Hispanic area. So there's a lot of Hispanic business owners, stores, all that such, right? Even the schools are ran by a lot of people who are Hispanic. But given just even that, there are not a lot of black people working with Hispanic people in these establishments. Like everybody is staffed is primarily Hispanic. And I've talked to a lot of people in the black community where they also feel that they don't have an interest in helping black people.

[00:21:14]So, I mean, if you want to do that as a Latina and boycott I mean, that's cool.

[00:21:19]I mean, I just personally feel that this should be something that as an empowering moment for all people of color to come together and to support their decision in the way where it's like they can use their money wherever they're at. So, if even if for me, like I just found a black-owned nail salon.

[00:21:36]And I'm actually really excited because I haven't gotten my nails and a pedicure done in a long time because I don't like to go to Asian nail salons unless it's like a private nail tech and even well then I learned how to do my own nails already. And I just personally believe like if we all pour back into the black community and helping them establish their own communities, their own businesses and such and we see more of it, I think it will fix a lot of problems that are here in America as well. And to address some of the things that I've been seeing where people are saying that they're calling in and doing like fake orders to businesses and such, I don't know what's wrong with those people and I don't know why people would choose to express hate in a situation like this because I see this as like an empowering moment for the black community actually for everybody. But people who are calling in orders and not picking them up and they're purposely trying to destroy businesses, that's like a whole different mindset. I I don't know why people would do that. I think that's completely uncalled for. Like fighting racism with racism never works.

[00:22:46]But yeah, I mean, like if that's what you want to do and that's how you want to spend your money, I mean, that's cool. I think everybody has the right to spend their money however they want to.

[00:22:57]It's not about hate, you know, that's that's the thing. I didn't see it about hate. I saw it as like, yeah, this should happen anyways because when you really think about it, like in my last video I had mentioned Black Wall Street.

[00:23:08]That was a whole massacre during segregation.

[00:23:12]Do you hear how crazy that is? Like they hated the fact that their city was flourishing and developing on its own that they had to go burn it down and kill like hundreds of people. So, when I say, hey, you know what? We should support black-owned businesses. Yeah, we should. There's nothing wrong with it.

[00:23:34]You know, everybody should. They're just like any other community out here.

[00:23:39]So, if you're a person of color, you should absolutely talk to your family and friends and just encourage them and educate them as to the why. Not because of hate, but the why to it. Cuz this is not meant to single out a certain community. If anything, this is to empower a certain community. But yeah, if you want to stop supporting Asian-owned businesses, I mean, that's your right to do so. You spend your money where you want to. The same way how I would spend my money wherever I would want to regardless of race.

[00:24:09]Everybody should have the option of spending their money where for whatever reason that they want to spend their money.

[00:24:17]And I don't really have to tell anybody this. I think this is where the respect is mutually understood.

[00:24:23]So.

[00:24:24]American community, please tell me if the larger content creators back at the ones who were involved in H-Mart, the whole H-Mart thing. I'm talking about like what? Ed, Suegia, Doctor Gia, Paul, Chief Keef, all them. Did they address all of this issue when it comes to the verdict of the Rick Chao case and the black community wanting to boycott the Asian-American businesses? Like what did they say? And I'mma be honest, when all that stuff happened back then, I blocked them the moment I saw they was on some stupid [ __ ] And the reason why I say that was because they really turned that whole thing and made it about I don't know what it was, like their imaginary beef and all that kind of stuff when we could have had a chance to have a voice for ourselves, right? And they I personally believe they all misrepresented Asian-Americans and this this is where we're at right now, at least on the internet, okay? So, I'm just curious to know because I did block all of them.

[00:25:25]And they are the ones who are actually impactful when it comes to making these types of conversations and giving a voice to us on stepping and being in solidarity with the black community. Cuz I remember when that whole thing was going on some DMs were leaked and someone brought up the topic of anti-blackness in the Asian-American community and one of them said it on there that just to ignore and to let it pass and it'll go away eventually.

[00:25:53]That always stuck with me ever since then. So, I'm just curious to know because we should not let that [ __ ] slide if so. And I'm pretty sure I cannot be the only one who remember that. So, if we're really trying to make a change, our community needs to address those larger content creators and press them to pretty much say something about it. Cuz I've been seeing a lot of small content creators speaking on it, but we don't have that type of movement that we can have in comparison to their millions of followers. I'm just curious to know if they said anything. So, I remember Chief Queef dropped like 50 videos during that time, like in a row, like I don't know how many there was and I didn't watch all of it at all, but there was a bunch of videos back-to-back-to-back-to-back.

[00:26:39]Is that the same Is it at the same pace this time?

[00:26:43]Just curious cuz I feel like this was way more important than whatever beef that they had.

[00:26:48]>> I would like to thank the black people who have come forth and stated how useless it is to boycott all Asian businesses just because of one incident.

[00:26:56]We are not all the same. We are not all one culture. We are not our parents generation. We are not going to call for a boycott of all black-owned businesses after a black on Asian crime. At least you're not going to see me doing that.

[00:27:08]And by the way, we don't claim this guy.

[00:27:10]No. We need to be focused on other thing. We need to come together because I promise you it's a bit sus that this case received all this attention and went viral seemingly overnight. Back in 2023 when the incident happened, this was not on our radars. Now in 2026 when racial tension in this country is at an all-time high, now we hear about this all of a sudden. It's being covered by every single major news outlet, news outlets who are run by the ones at the very, very top. Don't get me wrong, we should talk about these things. They are important, but I think it's time to talk more about unity because things seem like they're devolving into a race war.

[00:27:43]If you're curious about my thoughts on the case because I've been away for about 2 weeks and I'm just coming back now.

[00:27:49]I don't know what to say. It is tragic a kid lost his life. It is tragic we do not have footage of the climax of the situation.

[00:27:58]Everybody has a counterpoint to every point from both sides. I will just say there was no need to chase that kid out of the store. Doesn't matter where you stand. You can say look suspicious.

[00:28:09]Maybe they were fed up at that point.

[00:28:11]Whatever.

[00:28:12]My bottom line is there was no need to chase that kid 100 yards, over 100 yards in a situation where you brought a weapon with you just in case. And if you somehow were to know that Rick chased him out of racial prejudice, I promise you not a single Asian on this planet would be surprised. Those are my thoughts. I'm happy to be back, guys. I do think these are important discussions to have, but I think also at this point maybe we're kind of losing the plot a little bit. Let's push for more unity going forward.

[00:28:44]Thank you.

[00:28:45]>> When the black community is talking about boycotting Asian businesses, everybody should be in agreement with them.

[00:28:53]And for the people who really just don't understand or agree with me, I just really want you to also understand that they are not in your business cuz there are some Asian people that only shop at Asian places.

[00:29:07]Only.

[00:29:09]Like I'm talking about people that will drive all the way to like Orange County and LA and just go to get boba um dim sum, noodle houses, Korean barbecue like and they just stick with that same thing. And they're not saying anything about it.

[00:29:23]I just don't understand what's the problem of wanting to support the black community and wanting to support their own businesses at this I think it's great.

[00:29:33]We should actually be very happy that this is what they want and we should be in support with them. Like we should be looking and seeking to support their community, too. Like why are you so pressed about where their money is going at this point? I don't know and I feel like I could talk about this topic for a very long time because how I see it is that like if you were to go to any other country, right? Let's just say like for me I'm Chinese Cambodian. Let's say we go to Cambodia.

[00:29:58]All the business owners in that country are Cambodian or majority of them are Cambodian.

[00:30:06]So we're here in America and the Native Americans were here, the white Americans took their land, the black Americans built this land, the black Americans doesn't have an established community and like even in the same way that Asian people do.

[00:30:23]Is that not alarming?

[00:30:25]Like every other community out here has some sort of established business amongst even like a certain trade.

[00:30:33]But are you guys even asking like why is it that the black community is not?

[00:30:38]And it's not their fault because many people in the black community they they do try to have businesses. They do try to do these things, but there is discrimination and there is systemic racism that prevents them from doing it.

[00:30:51]And or if not, people be trying to shut them down just because. Do you guys don't see that? Do you guys not ask why?

[00:30:57]I'm just like, why would you guys not want to support their decision in doing this? Like you guys are scared about losing money, they're scared about their people being killed. How is this even a debate? And let's be very real. We are not No one is entitled to police anybody on what they can or cannot do with their money. So, for the people who are saying not everybody deserves this, that was just one person, you're being disrespectful. Stop trying to persuade them as to why they should just keep spending money with everybody else besides putting it into their own community. And we should be doing it, too. Every person of color should be doing it.

[00:31:38]I personally don't think that my Asian-American community is as smart as people want them to think because there's a very narrow way of us thinking. Like we don't really think outside of the box. Like a lot of my people don't, you know? And it takes a lot for us to be able to channel that type of intelligence and it seems like not many of us can actually reach it.

[00:31:58]And this is not meant to be offensive to anyone. Just take this as constructive criticism to change and be better. Our people, we can all agree that we lack accountability. Our people have heavy issues with accountability, ego problems, trust issues, etc., right? And some of us be thinking like we're white.

[00:32:18]So, I had to take a video down because I was like, I don't want the wrong message to be out there because my people, we got problems with critical thinking. And the reason why I say this is because there is like a lot of people in the comments also speaking about how there is like fake orders going out to Asian business restaurants and such like that.

[00:32:39]I would like to make myself very clear and this is the reason why I took it down.

[00:32:43]My people are so anti-black that they will use that narrative and make it the reason why they will never address the anti-black issues and racist issues in our community. And I seen it in the comments like they're saying like, "Yeah, but the racist comments and like the fake phone orders, like it's just unnecessary, but I understand what you're saying though." And it's just kind of like, "Okay, so what?" The lack of accountability and entitlement is so alarming that if my people can just apply a little bit of common sense and humanity into their thinking, right?

[00:33:22]They would be able to understand that the black community and their livelihood should always outweigh a business expense.

[00:33:33]And unfortunately, that is the part of accountability, right? Our people did something wrong. We're not the victims here. Hello. So, let me make myself very clear cuz I'm not going to say [ __ ] about that. And it's not because I don't like my own people. I love my people, but my people have issues and there's nothing in my mind that's ever going to have it where fake Chinese food orders are going to outweigh the racism that is in our community. And I do hope that everybody understands this, right? Not just Asian people, but every person of color because there's a anti-blackness issues in every one of our communities.

[00:34:13]This is not just going to affect the Asian community. Do you guys get that?

[00:34:18]So, like I said in my last video, everybody is should be in support with this decision that the black community is talking about. And if we really want to be unified and building solidarity together, sometimes we just literally got to sit down and listen.

[00:34:33]>> Often, they can do my best side that their money should do more than just buy products. I can see me there a conversation about spending habits, economic power, and community support are growing louder than ever. Some say boycotts are one of the most powerful tools people have to demand change.

[00:34:53]Other one that economic prayer can have free port effects far beyond what anyone expected. But, one thing is certain, when community change how they spend their dollars, businesses pay attention.

[00:35:05]And the conversation can quickly spread nationwide. Throughout history, community have used economic choices to express value, support support causes, and encourage changes. From buy local campaign to organized boycotts, consumer have long understood that spending money is more than a transaction. It's a form of influence. That's why the discussion about consumer activism often generate such strong reaction. Some people feel boycott as a peaceful and effective way to make concern heard. They argue that consumer have every right to decide where their money goes and which businesses they choose to support. Other point out that economic shift can affect workers, families, and local neighborhood in ways that are difficult to predict. When customer behavior change, the impact can spread beyond the single store and influence entire business community. What makes this conversation so fascinating is that they highlight just how interconnected our community really are. Businesses rely on customer, customer rely on businesses, and the community strive where trust, communication, and mutual understanding are strong. At the center of this debate are bigger question. How should community address disagreement? What role should consumer choices play in creating change? And how can different group of group find common ground while still standing by their values?

[00:36:33]The reality is that economic influence has always been a powerful force in society. Whether people support or oppose a boycott, most agree on one thing. Consumers have more power than they often realize. A single purchasing decision may seem small, but when multiplied across thousands or even millions of people, its impact can be significant. As this conversation continues, many voices are calling not only for accountability, but also for dialogue because lasting solutions often comes from understanding, communication, and finding ways to move forward together. Before I continue, I want to take a moment to thank every single one of you who watches this video, leave thoughtful comments, and support this channel. Whether you have been here from the beginning or just joining us today, your support means everything. Every like, every share, and every discussion help this community continue to grow.

[00:37:30]And I truly appreciate each and every one of you. Now, I want to hear from you. Do you think consumer spending is one of the most powerful tools community have to create change? Let me know your thoughts in the comment below. And if you enjoyed this video, don't forget to smash that like button, subscribe to the channel, and turn on all post notification so you never miss an upload. Share this video with your loved one, your friends, and family. Join the conversation below and help us continue build this amazing community together.

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