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Life
20 Mar 2021

A Note For This Week

Like many of you, I am still grappling with my feelings and my words on how to describe or even make sense of what happened this past week in Atlanta. I can’t. And it’s going to take me more than a few days to process. What I won’t do is mince words. If the media and the police dept. won’t say it, I will. This was absolutely a hate crime. There is no other way to see it. If you are someone that is publicly saying that 6/8 people killed having been Asian women at three targeted massage parlors is not a hate crime, you are making a racist statement. Ask yourself why you are defending a 21-year old gunman who has done this and what purpose this serves you. How do people begin to defend the gunman? Because he likes pizza, music, and God? And why is calling it a “hate crime” something you cannot acknowledge? Acknowledge human lives.

I’m sure when I’m ready, I will put together something more structurally sound – maybe more grammatically correct. For now, as I continue to gather myself, I want to share out a few pieces that have been written or created by other AAPI people on the aftermath of not only this week, but what we have been facing for the last year.

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27 Feb 2014

Kanye West Medley

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I heard one Kanye classic over the weekend and it has pretty much turned my week upside down. On repeat, Kanye West. Literally, I searched him on Spotify to pull his tracks and am just going down the list listening to all of my favorites. I’m not sure if it was coincidence or what, but Kanye also just happened to be performing a medley of his songs on the premiere week of Late Night with Seth Meyers as well. Now I’ve heard that the premiere week hasn’t hit it off as well as Jimmy Fallon’s transition to The Tonight Show, but  I wanted to give this the benefit of the doubt. I like Kanye, but this entire performance seemed so unnatural to me. The transitions of the songs weren’t smooth. They actually seemed awkward and I felt like I could have created a replica of something like this on my own Spotify playlist by just listening to bits and pieces of his songs. It’s disappointing, but then I remember that I’m even more disappointed that he’s getting married to Kim Kardashian.