{"sf1_id":1869429,"sf2_id":"ynda07N1","title":"What Is There Left To Say?","author":"Apolarbear17","words":650,"posted_at":"2022-06-30T04:02:00.000Z","tags":["Currents Events","Heavy Subjects","Poetry","StopAsianHate","StopAsianHateCrimes","hatred","racism"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1869429-what-is-there-left-to-say","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ynda07N1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/11/71/11715f06-21aa-446e-973c-bcd817845b8e","description":"A poem I made and posted on my website a while ago about then current events. Thought I should add it here too since it's about a sadly still relevant and important issue and also I'm still trying to post everything in order. It's a heavy one just as a forewarning. Originally posted in March 2021\nLinks to resources to help the Asian community(these were posted with the original and made sense to add them and I guess now as well):https://caaav.org/https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-georgias-asian-american-community?source=direct_link\u0026https://stopasianhate.carrd.co/","content":"What is There Left to Say?\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n\nIt's another day where victims families mourn and weep\u0026nbsp;\n\nAll because another shooting that shouldn't have happened\u0026nbsp;\n\nA pretty much definite hate crime committed by a white man\u0026nbsp;\n\nAgainst people in a community that is too often fetishized or ignored\u0026nbsp;\n\n8 asian people were killed and victimized and now there are many more hurting and floored\u0026nbsp;\n\nAll by that man in Atlanta who for whom excuses and benefits of the doubt are being made\n\nWhile there are many asian people who are finally getting seen and feeling by the system, played\u0026nbsp;\n\nFor they know why this happened, they've dealt with the reason for too many years\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd yet there are those in power who'll pussyfoot around it and those who'll sooner side with their white peers\u0026nbsp;\n\nOver the victims of this tragedy who were out there living full happy lives\u0026nbsp;\n\nTill someone overly entitled and racist simply \"had a bad day\"\u0026nbsp;\n\nThat's what the cops say, it was a porn addiction and a bad day that left him at the end of his rope\n\nBut most know better by now\n\nOther people have bad days sometimes entire bad years and still fall down hates' slippery slope\n\nEven if this mass shooter wasn't a racist, which he was let's make that clear\u0026nbsp;\n\nHe'd still be a murderer committing a hate crime against women who were a majority of his victims\u0026nbsp;\n\nAs well as just inspiring more fear\u0026nbsp;\n\nA fear that practically all people of color face in one way or another\u0026nbsp;\n\nThat fear of getting hurt or killed cause some overzealous white guy with a gun seeing you as the other\u0026nbsp;\n\nYou could say I'm overly generalizing or just exaggerating\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut if you actually listen to the people affected by the racism and these murders you'll see it's all real, very familiar and aggravating\u0026nbsp;\n\nThis is a story that's unfortunately all too familiar and has been played out before\n\nThe reason why, the perpetrator, the excuses, even who the victims are this has all been done\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd sometimes it feels like things will always be this bad and tragedies like this will continue despite however loud the uproar\u0026nbsp;\n\nFor the past year hate crimes against asians have surged and increased\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd it took something like what happened yesterday to happen to get people to care\u0026nbsp;\n\nThree Asian businesses, massage parlors were attacked\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd now there are eight people with lives brutally and unjustly taken that they will never get back\u0026nbsp;\n\nWhat's worse is that it's pretty likely things won't really change\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe struggles of Asians will probably conveniently slip through the cracks\u0026nbsp;\n\nBIPOC voices will continue to be glossed over in favor of more comfortable and non challenging ones that don't talk back\u0026nbsp;\n\nI really, really would like to be wrong\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut I've seen this macabre song and dance before and it's all so sickeningly wrong\n\nLiving in America shouldn't make asians and other people of color constantly afraid of attacks\u0026nbsp;\n\nAttacks caused by the racist, bigoted and entitled\u0026nbsp;\n\nI hope now at least we can examine and dismantle the harmful stereotypes\u0026nbsp;\n\nAs well as the institutions that fuel and let the racism and hate slide\u0026nbsp;\n\nIt doesn't and shouldn't matter if they were sex workers victim blaming is not a solution\n\nThere needs to be acknowledgement and at the very least attempted fixing of the problems asians face\u0026nbsp;\n\nWhen we do eventually fix those problems and give asians and all people of color for that matter the true respect and opportunity that has been earned and deserved\u0026nbsp;\n\nThen and only then can we properly stop bringing in and talking about race\u0026nbsp;\n\nUntil then however for today and hopefully forever check up on and lift the voices of your asian friends\n\nFor right now they're probably terrified and hurt while they wait hopefully for justice and maybe even amends \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;  \n  \n  \n\n"}