Some Asian Americans Are Calling for More Dialogue With Black Americans

[00:00:00]Asian Americans too, don't in my experience don't even realize that if it wasn't for the Civil Rights Movement >> Yes.

[00:00:05]>> there would not be 22 million Asian Americans in this country.

[00:00:08]>> Thank you.

[00:00:09]>> [clears throat] >> Thank you.

[00:00:10]>> What I have been trying to teach the Asian community is like, friends, do you understand that your success, your prosperity, your civil rights that you enjoy right now was paid for with black blood?

[00:00:24]>> ahead and boycott the Asian businesses.

[00:00:25]We as Asian businesses could stand to learn the value of the black dollar and yes, South Asians, I said we. We spent all of last month talking about how we're Asian, too. I understand that Rick Chao and his thug ass son are East Asian, but y'all know damn well that could have been one of y'all's parents.

[00:00:38]This is exactly what some of us mean when we say y'all need to be raising y'all's parents. That immigrant mindset of come to America, keep your head down, don't bother anyone, they won't bother you. First of all, that's outdated.

[00:00:45]That's not going to work. You have to educate yourself on what's going on.

[00:00:47]Second of all, our parents need to understand what happened in this country, the groundwork that was laid, the work that black Americans did to give us the rights that we have now.

[00:00:54]Third of all, you don't get to come here and say you just want to keep your head down and make an honest living and have the American dream and don't cause any waves, but at the same time uphold anti-blackness and the disenfranchisement of black Americans.

[00:01:04]You can't have it both ways. And before any of you want to get in my comments with some slick ass [ __ ] to say, talking about fine, okay, if they don't want to shop at our establishments, go get your own dry cleaners, work at your own restaurants, go at your own convenience stores, you are proving the point that's being made, first of all.

[00:01:16]I'm going to tell you two things that the black community have been trying to tell you, you just won't listen. One, black people don't forget. And black black people do not forget. So, if you already said some slick ass racist [ __ ] you're [ __ ] I'm sorry. You've already lost them and that serves you right.

[00:01:27]Number two, black people will treat you how you treat them. It is really that simple and it makes perfect sense. In a country that has sought out to systemically oppress them from jump, I I get that they're going to be weary interacting with different people.

[00:01:38]They're going to want to understand what you think of them and how you want to treat them. Because why would they intentionally subject themselves to that kind of [ __ ] But let me also tell you something. When they say social media is the loudest minority, that shit's so real. You can have every single black person on TikTok come on here and say I am no longer supporting insert Asian business. And you know what? They could genuinely mean that and they will never step foot in your door.

[00:02:00]But most people are not on TikTok. You are still going to have black patrons coming to your establishments, giving you a chance, being open. This is your chance to prove you are exactly who you claim to be.

[00:02:11]Treat them with some respect, make them feel welcome and invited, and don't [ __ ] antagonize them. Don't watch them, don't hover, down to them when they're coming in ready to spend their own money at your establishment, don't follow them around the store, and for [ __ ] sake, don't chase little children out of your store just to shoot them in the back in self-defense. [ __ ] [ __ ] you. And to Rick Chow and your thug ass son, Mhm.

[00:02:37]>> Just a reminder to other Asians, when the black community says that they're going to boycott Asian businesses, that's not them being racist. They're literally just asking us to give them the respect that they rightfully deserve. There's a lot of anti-blackness in the Asian community and I'm sick of seeing it. We're all sick of seeing it.

[00:02:56]And the black community knows that all Asians aren't racist. It's just that these Asian businesses need to be reminded that they literally profit off of the black community.

[00:03:05]>> Just when you think that you have had it all or everything have calmed down and everybody's actually understanding what's going on and the reason why black folks have chosen to, you know, focus on supporting black owned businesses, you just keep hearing all that kind of stories. But in today's video, you I'm actually featuring some Asian content creators who had come out and call out their own and educating them that at the end of the day we all need black dollar and we all need black people. See, the thing is that I don't even understand why people think that they need just themselves. Well, guys, I'm going to let the rest of the videos roll then I'll come back with more commentary. Credit belongs to original creators of these videos. Please do not Don't to like and share and of course subscribe to my channel if you haven't already.

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[00:04:06]>> The Korean stock market crashed a week ago. Keep up the Asian boycott.

[00:04:11]Some of y'all are very ignorant.

[00:04:15]I'm not going to say dumb out of respect, but they are ignorant. Ignorance means you do not know or you are not educated in that topic.

[00:04:26]And it's okay to be ignorant. I'm ignorant about a lot of things. I don't know everything about the world.

[00:04:32]But as much as people can see on the news that the Korean stock market crashed, you should be able to Google it real quick to see why it crashed.

[00:04:43]At first, I was shocked to see people taking credit for this, saying it's because of these Asian boycotts on nail salons.

[00:04:50]But then I'd be reading the comments that many people agree.

[00:04:54]And then I'll finally see a logical and intelligent comment that says, "What does the Korean stock market crashing have anything to do with the Asian boycott?"

[00:05:03]Look, I love black people. I have black friends. I want us all to get along, but some of y'all need to police up some of this ignorance, just like how I'm going to police up some of this anti-black hate.

[00:05:17]Like that Asian guy that burned that cross, no, that is not okay, and he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[00:05:23]>> Nobody owes you anything. There are very few things in life that are just an inalienable right that you are just entitled to. If you ask me, those two things are safety and respect. Besides that, you have to earn it. That's why we roll our eyes when we talk about things like the male loneliness epidemic, because we know that companionship with women is not something that men are entitled to. Rather, it's the responsibility of men to be a people that women want to keep community with, that they find safety, benefit, and enjoyment from being around. If you're following me this far, I'm going to take this a layer deeper specifically to the Asian community. This outcry about the black community calling to boycott Asian businesses in light of the recent verdict with the Ricarte case. It's giving the same energy as a self-proclaimed nice guy getting all upset because women don't want to date him. He's a nice guy. He's not like those other guys. Why is he getting punished for the bad behavior of other men? Well, that attitude kind of makes him seem like not such a nice guy. The fact that he doesn't have empathy or understanding for why women might not feel safe, might be distrustful, or resentful. It kind of proves their point that he's not that safe to begin with.

[00:06:36]Before the whatabouters get here, I am not saying that these are a perfect comparison, that these are the same issue. But, I hope it puts into perspective that much like men are not entitled to the trust, the benefit of the doubt, the friendship, the community, the business of women. The Asian-American community is not entitled to that from black people either. Being a minority yourself doesn't entitle you to [ __ ] It's not a get-out-of-jail-free card when it comes to prejudice. It's not an invisibility cloak, an immunity blanket. But, when you act like it is, when you act like your specific minority identity exists in a vacuum from all these other ones, you're denying that all of these things are interlinked.

[00:07:12]Cyrus Carmack-Altman should be alive, but he's not. And instead, there is no justice. And that should be of way, way, way more consequence to you than your own feelings about how you are or will be impacted. If you would like, as an Asian person, to have the community, the trust, the friendship, the benefit of the doubt, the business of the black community, then you need to earn it. Who set that system up isn't always enough.

[00:07:38]You have to then ask the question, and who continues to benefit from that system?

[00:07:42]>> So, I >> made some videos earlier this week regarding the black community boycotting, or I guess more appropriately the blackout of Asian businesses, right? And I will say some of the responses I've gotten from Asian people have been hella weird, so let's talk about it. First of all, let me say this, if you are a palm-colored person, sorry, I had to get my coffee. What was I saying?

[00:08:00]Any of you palm-colored people, I don't know if it wasn't obvious, you actually have no seat at the table for this conversation. Someone needs you to jump, especially if you [ __ ] want to form your mouth to say that I'm somehow being anti-Asian. No, [ __ ] if you don't come over here and suck my entire dick.

[00:08:12]Anyways, let's address some of the comments I've gotten, cuz here's the thing, you guys, 99% of the comments have been like amazing and really supportive and great, and I appreciate that. But y'all know how it is, you focus on that 1%.

[00:08:22]And I'm trying this thing now where I don't just assume that all of those comments are going to be trolls because I don't want to like miss actual valid constructive feedback cuz I just wrote someone off as a troll, you know what I mean? So, let's talk about some of these. First, there's this person that's commented on multiple times.

[00:08:37]You're calling for a boycott of South Asian businesses. You don't realize that there are some people that are half black, half South Asian that have businesses, so you're calling for a boycott of their businesses, you're being anti-black.

[00:08:48][ __ ] did you watch my video? I That had to be a troll. That had to be a troll, right? If you look at all of my other videos, cuz this person's commented on my other videos, you can see that I'm not one of those accounts that's like constantly calling out racism and hatred and all those things.

[00:09:00]And no offense to those accounts, [ __ ] I think accounts that are consistently educating our own people, those are amazing accounts. Do you know what I mean? Like, one of my besties on here, y'all know Ariana Merchant, I [ __ ] ride for her. She is constantly holding our people accountable and educating.

[00:09:12]That just takes so much out of someone.

[00:09:14]Like, I have so much respect for her.

[00:09:15]That's just not what I do. Like, when I tell y'all, people like Ariana are the ones that deserve a platform. [ __ ] like me, I'm literally just out here walking around drinking my coffee every day, obsessing over some trivial ass [ __ ] drinking 20 ass smoothies when I'm in LA. [ __ ] me. Think about me, I'm never going to shy away from any of these topics, and if I feel moved to talk about them, I will. Anyone who's been following me on TikTok for a while, you already know. The thing I'm starting to realize, maybe Instagram is not as strict as TikTok when it comes to some of this content cuz y'all I when I pop off on someone I last year I got three strikes in one week on TikTok. So I had to cool it on some of this content. But anyways, back to the focus. I get comments on my other videos of me just like vlogging, going around, getting my coffee and they're like, "Oh, boycott Asian businesses. I'm going to go support a black influencer." 100% more black influencers need to be supported.

[00:09:57]But bestie, if you watch my video in full and then you comment that, you're you're not helping to suppress me or boycott me. Do you know what I mean? I'd rather you just block me and then go actually put your money where your [ __ ] mouth is and go support black creators. Please. There's so many amazing black creators that have no support that need it. But I'm willing to bet you don't actually care about supporting black creators, do you? You just wanted to dunk on me. So address me directly and keep them out of your [ __ ] mouth. And then lastly, let me address this. There are some black people from this entire conversation that are saying, "I will [ __ ] with Asian businesses that [ __ ] with me. I will support an Asian business if they are nice to me." Great. I love that. Thank you. I appreciate that. But there are also black people that are saying, "I will never support any Asian business again based on their history. I will only support black owned." I have no problem with that. I don't know if people think that that's something that I should be denouncing. No, [ __ ] The whole point of this is leave black people alone. Let black people have their feelings and let them make their own decisions. We are not entitled to their business. We're not entitled to their money. What are you not getting?

[00:10:48]Jesus Christ. Oh, [ __ ] hold on. I got a couple more things actually. Next, the virtue signaling. Fair. I'm the morality police. I'm just doing this for engagement. That is your opinion. That is your feeling. I can't really argue against your feeling. Feel how you want.

[00:10:59]Here's the thing. I'm going to piss off a bunch of my haters when I say this. Uh last month I got two brand deals and I got paid for them. One of them was net 30. One of them was net 15. It's 2026, [ __ ] The thing about me, I'm well aware that I can make videos like this, pop off, they'll get so many views. On Instagram, my first video about this entire subject has like, I don't know, 500,000 views right now. If I wanted to just get a [ __ ] ton of followers and engagement on every single video, I would continue talking about these things. I only talk about them when I feel compelled, when I think I have something to contribute to the conversation. I'm not just going to spit out the same thing everyone else is saying just for what? The views? Now let's acknowledge the [ __ ] privilege in that alone. Do you see me, [ __ ] Do you hear me? Clearly, so much of who I am, my personality, the music I listen to, the shows I watch, so much of that is influenced by the black community.

[00:11:41]That is not something I can deny, nor would I want to. I may not be a business owner that takes money from the black community, but I've been influenced plenty. And quite literally, it's not that difficult to give credit where credit is due. When I first started doing this, when I had about 5,000 followers on Tik Tok, I knew that I didn't want to be one of those creators if I ever got any form of a following.

[00:11:57]Every 4 years, when the election comes, at the very last minute, get out there and give a vague little speech about going to vote and exercising your right, even just flat out saying vote [ __ ] Democrat, and having half of my following be like, "I can't believe you would say this. I didn't follow you for this. I never wanted you to be political." Who is calling me? I genuinely believe that if I ever got those comments from people, I have failed. I have failed. Because even though the majority of my content is me [ __ ] around in cities and drinking coffee and going to Erewhon and getting $20 [ __ ] smoothies, 17 of them in a weekend. Now, in the last week, I've gotten probably like 7,000 new followers on Instagram, and I'm willing to bet 99% of them think I'm going to keep making videos only like the two that they saw.

[00:12:31]And the thing is, that's just not exclusively the content I make. I am quite literally a gay brown man that is ADHD as [ __ ] that hyperfixates on smoothies and [ __ ] coffee. Literally, the most trivial [ __ ] [ __ ] But at least y'all know exactly where the [ __ ] I stand. Juice Pod, I'm going to be honest, this Hailey Bieber dupe, the texture is great. It's very thick. It's the closest dupe in terms of that, but like, there really is no flavor to this.

[00:12:50]There's like no sweetness or like any distinctive flavor. Did I [ __ ] up?

[00:12:54]Honestly, y'all know most of the [ __ ] Erewhon smoothies taste like cold nothing, so close, Juice Pod. If y'all want, this is the closest Hailey dupe.

[00:13:00]Anyways, bye.

[00:13:01]>> All I'm saying is that if you were Asian before you should even be asking the question about who gets to decide who gets to boycott Asian-owned businesses, we need to be having the conversations in our own spaces about whether or not anti-black racism needs to be addressed and have those uncomfortable conversations within our communities.

[00:13:19]Cuz I have been. I have been doing this for years, right? Have you been doing that before you decided to come online and post a video being like, "Oh, black Americans are such hypocrites." Which they are not. They have a right. Like, they have an absolute right because we do have rampant anti-black racism. And before we are willing like we need to be willing to take accountability for that before we get to decide whether or not anybody should be boy- Also, it's not even our decision who gets who gets to boycott. Our our role, right? And everybody has different roles under systemic oppression and something happens is what can I do in solidarity instead of looking at the situation as an us versus them problem. If you're still looking at it from the lens of an us versus them problem, then you are on Rick Chows side. And I know that people can say like, "Oh, well, you know what?

[00:14:11]Like, I'm I I have such a diverse spectrum of ideas and I I see things differently." But when it comes to systemic oppression in a world that is made to be black and white, then if you are going to look at this boycotting situation as "Oh, you shouldn't boycott us.

[00:14:31]Why should we have to pay for the sins of this one guy?"

[00:14:35]>> [gasps] >> Like, that's not like the systemic playbook, right? Like, the like when one person does harm or even if it's a few people doing harm, right? Like, if you think about like slavery in the South, even if it was just a few people, a few families running the whole thing, okay?

[00:14:51]The the systemic issue is still the fact that everybody inherited these core belief systems about certain marginalized groups of people and we are still perpetuating these ideas, right?

[00:15:02]Like, the issue is that our ideologies are still there, right? And until we're able to address that, why are we even thinking immediately like, "Oh, actually, I'm going to argue with that boycotting." When you should be looking at yourself in a mirror and being like, "Hey, I realize that I'm contributing. my community is contributing. How have I seen anti-black racism manifest in Asian spaces? Like, why are these conversations so difficult to have? I don't know.

[00:15:33]But, they need to be had, right? They exist.

[00:15:38]They exist. People are doing it, some people are not. But, when it comes to the question of solidarity, are you are you for or against? And if you are for, then have the conversations first before you decide who gets to boycott if you were an Asian person.

[00:15:51]>> If you think you have the right to decide how other people spend their money, then my friend, you're wrong.

[00:15:57]Like, you are literally wrong because people definitely have the right to spend their money anyhow they deem wish because, of course, it's their money.

[00:16:07]They worked for it. They sacrificed for it. They went sleepless night for it.

[00:16:13]And, of course, lost sleep time, I know, lost rest for their money.

[00:16:19]I don't see the reason why anybody had to force the other person how they're supposed to spend their money, why they're supposed to spend their money because I don't even get it. And now they're turning it to, "Oh, Asian Asian hate." And all of that. That's not what it is. Black folks are saying, "We are We have been disrespected by a lot of communities." And mind you, it's not just Asians at this point.

[00:16:43]Is it further wherever they go, it's as if they're being disrespected. But, right now they're saying, "We don't think we want to take that anymore." Can we all collectively support black-owned businesses and push them to where they're supposed to be? You know, that's exactly what we're seeing play out. It's as if they're doing a wealth transfer, which a lot of them have come out to educate us, telling us this is a wealth transfer nowadays. It's no longer, you know, a boycott like everybody have been saying, "Oh, they boycott this, they that." No, that's not what it is. They are saying that they are literally transferring their wealth to their community because for a very long time they have put their wealth in the hands of other people. And mind you, the people that they are putting in their hands doesn't even value you know, the fact that they are coming to support their own businesses. They are literally, you know, making it look like black folks do not know what they are doing or, you know, they like they are just making it look like they are not sure of what they are doing.

[00:17:46]They come to your businesses, you're following them up and down, your your your your monitoring them, you know, all of those things.

[00:17:55]Okay, and at the end of the day they decide to take their money elsewhere and everybody is angry. Like, what are what are you even saying?

[00:18:04]Okay, yeah, I need you to know that it's not just about Cyrus's case, but Cyrus's case is one that actually break the camel's back. It's at this point that they say, "Oh, we are not doing this anymore. I think at this point we need to shift our focus into supporting black-owned businesses and see how that leads us."

[00:18:24]And that's what we're seeing all out play out because everybody is up and about trying to support their businesses, trying to, you know, support their own people.

[00:18:36]The same way these communities have literally supported their own people for the longest because tell me how many people how many people from this black community are visiting shopping from black-owned businesses and all of that.

[00:18:50]Okay, instead they'll tell you, "Oh, you guys do not have generic product."

[00:18:54]That's because you don't even shop from them.

[00:18:57]How can you tell me it's only seafood that black people actually, you know, sell?

[00:19:04]Don't make [snorts] sense, seriously.

[00:19:05]And now that they are deciding to put their wealth back into their community, you saw how black-owned businesses are literally rejoicing that, you know, businesses are becoming are coming to them and their businesses are blossoming and everybody is like, "Oh, you guys are deciding to boycott the Oh, you guys are doing this." It doesn't make a lot of sense. Okay, if they have decided to support their own businesses, so should it be. That's how it should be and not, you know, you guys should even be happy that they're deciding to support their own businesses and help promote it. There are still a lot of black folks coming to Asian stores, shopping from Asian businesses. Okay?

[00:19:45]So, because of some people came out and told you guys this is what they're going to do.

[00:19:50]You should just put your eye in your community. If you want to educate them, start from your own community. Start from the grassroots, right?

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