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The allegation was made via an Instagram account called “Orchestra Is Racist,” one of several similarly geared social media accounts that have sprung up this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang is one of classical music’s few current superstars; she holds endorsement deals with leading luxury brands, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.rolex.com/world-of-rolex/every-rolex-tells-a-story/yuja-wang-rolex-watch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolex\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.rimowa.com/us/en/neverstill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rimowa\u003c/a>. (In 2014, this reporter produced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/02/19/279059784/on-a-chilly-factory-floor-yuja-wangs-piano-sizzles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">performance video\u003c/a> with Wang for NPR Music.) 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It’s important to listen to the many voices speaking out right now. We have to be open with each other to allow for the opportunity to acknowledge our missteps, to forgive and to grow from these experiences.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Within the comments section on the “Orchestra Is Racist” post, Kavakos republished a comment that he had originally made on his own \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/leonidas.kavakos.violin/photos/a.447608832086475/1517577618422919/?type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page\u003c/a> on June 2, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing. He wrote in part: “If WE want to look at Humanity as an accord consisting of human lives, and attempting to create its own Harmony, the atrocious act of killing George Floyd, has destroyed that attempt. It is an act that stabs US ALL creating severe wounds, that threaten OUR Existence! 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I welcome the current discussions that are taking place that are teaching everyone that we all have something to learn and need to listen to all voices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, classical music’s academic sphere is facing its own reckoning. Last November, at the annual conference for the Society for Music Theory, a Black music theorist named \u003ca href=\"http://philipewell.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philip Ewell\u003c/a> gave an \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/372726003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">address\u003c/a> titled Music Theory’s White Racial Frame. As part of his presentation, Ewell argued that Heinrich Schenker, a late 19th and early 20th century theorist whose work has been foundational in the musical analysis of Western art music, was not only explicitly racist personally, but that Schenker also contended himself that his views on race and on music were indivisible. 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Participating in recent Black Lives Matter protests prompted her to look critically at the communities in which she was already involved: “And CCA is a community that I think desperately needs help in terms of equity for Black students and Indigenous students and students of color.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fundraiser was originally planned to conclude in October, but Guinan says they may shorten the timeframe to release funds before the fall semester starts on Sept. 3. As of publication, the group, which includes members of the 24 Frames Animation Club, the Black Brilliance Club, the Students of Color Coalition, Student Council and Student Union of California College of the Arts, has raised over $12,000 from 132 donors—a feat achieved in under four weeks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CCt2bnvAJgs/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By establishing itself as completely independent from the school, the campaign has both advantages and disadvantages. Funds can be dispersed immediately, without going through official channels, but the campaign has to gather information about who is eligible to receive those funds on their own. To that end, they’ve created a survey for CCA students to complete; Guinan says they received 200 responses in the first two days. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside demographic questions about ethnicity and gender identity are queries like, “Have you felt unsafe at CCA due to direct or indirect racism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, classism, national origin?” The survey also wants to know if students notified CCA of such experiences and if the school took action in response to any complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA, like most institutions of higher education across the country, is currently examining its past and current practices regarding racial justice and equity. The \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/essentials/office-president/presidents-diversity-steering-group/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">President’s Diversity Steering Group\u003c/a>, made up of faculty, staff and students, has organized an \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/essentials/office-president/presidents-diversity-steering-group/cca-community-recommendations-racial-justice-equity-initiatives/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">extensive list of recommendations\u003c/a> submitted by members of the CCA community since the national uprisings following the police killing of George Floyd. Among the suggestions are calls to create a center for Black visual culture and curatorial practice, to establish a land acknowledgment on the school’s website, and to require white faculty members to attend anti-racism training. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘More Funding is Needed’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CCA spokesperson Taryn Lott says the school expects the list of current and ongoing initiatives to grow, especially with regards to programming and curriculum, when members of the faculty return from the summer break. As for CCA’s response to the call for additional funding for working class and BIPOC students, Lott wrote in an email, “While CCA has made progress in raising diversity scholarships, college leadership recognizes that more funding is needed and continues to pursue increased support for our students.” Lott says CCA has raised $635,000 toward diversity scholarship awards since May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school currently distributes $25 million in institutional financial aid, 65% of which Lott says went to BIPOC and working class undergraduate and graduate students last year, which includes U.S. citizens, permanent residents and DACA recipients. Diversity scholarships comprise 10% of the school’s endowment at $3 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Guinan says what she’s heard from CCA’s Black students in particular is that the diversity scholarship program doesn’t prioritize them and they often don’t see those funds. The scholarships, according to CCA’s website, are offered to “students from educationally disadvantaged families who have demonstrated academic and artistic achievement, students with demonstrated leadership in service to the community, and students whose work focuses on social or cultural issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign hopes to disburse $1,000 each to those who need help with rent and larger expenses, and $500 grants for assistance with artist supplies and other “hidden fees that really add up,” Guinan explains. 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Though the school’s Oakland and San Francisco campuses will be completely closed to students until it is deemed safe to reopen—meaning no access to studios, wood shops, computer labs or the library—the school will continue to offer single-occupancy on-campus housing for students who need or want to live at CCA. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike SFAI, which recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883757/sfai-reinstates-degree-programs-faculty-students\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">enticed students to re-enroll\u003c/a> with offers of a 50% tuition cut, CCA’s 2020–21 tuition is frozen at the previous school year’s rate. The only cuts were to a planned 4% increase. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Speedy Delivery of Grants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of the impetus for keeping the Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign separate from the school, Guinan says, was a dissatisfaction with the speed at which CCA was able to disperse coronavirus-related relief funds to the student body. CCA received a total of nearly $1.4 million from the CARES Act fund, half of which will be disbursed in emergency financial aid grants of $500–$3,000 to eligible students between the 2019–20 and 2020–21 school years. Lott says their records indicate 745 students may be eligible to apply for these funds; so far 104 requests have been approved. (Dispersal \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/wesleywhistle/2020/06/11/devos-finalizes-rule-blocking-undocumented-students-from-cares-act-grants/#2928675675a0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">was slowed\u003c/a> by a lack of guidance from the Department of Education.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, CCA launched their own emergency fund to assist with students’ basic immediate needs in the face of the pandemic. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pointing to the high cost of living in the Bay Area and CCA’s 2020–21 tuition of over $50,000, the organizers, a coalition of leaders from five different student groups, hope to address an “unacceptable disconnect between higher education and the BIPOC artist community in the Bay Area.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu/admissions/facts/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">student body\u003c/a> is 14% Asian American, 13% Hispanic/Latinx and 4% African American. (In 2010, the nine-county Bay Area was 23% Asian, 24% Hispanic/Latinx and 7% African American.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while CCA distributes millions in institutional financial aid each year, only one named scholarship is specifically earmarked for African American students, with another four categorized as “diversity” scholarships. CCA says it is unable to use race or ethnicity as a deciding factor in bestowing scholarships because of Proposition 209, which most famously ended affirmative action practices at UC schools in 1996. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a nationwide reckoning for racial justice, the student leaders behind the Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign have moved quickly and independently to circumnavigate such restrictions, opting instead for mutual aid. Their fundraiser is both functional and symbolic, modeling a program CCA might one day be able to implement (\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-bill-asking-voters-whether-to-repeal-15331604.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a repeal of Proposition 209\u003c/a> will appear on state ballots this November). \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Student-Led Campaign\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Guinan, a third-year animation student, is one of ten student organizers behind the fundraiser. “I’m so grateful to be living through the literal largest civil rights movement to date,” she says. Participating in recent Black Lives Matter protests prompted her to look critically at the communities in which she was already involved: “And CCA is a community that I think desperately needs help in terms of equity for Black students and Indigenous students and students of color.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fundraiser was originally planned to conclude in October, but Guinan says they may shorten the timeframe to release funds before the fall semester starts on Sept. 3. As of publication, the group, which includes members of the 24 Frames Animation Club, the Black Brilliance Club, the Students of Color Coalition, Student Council and Student Union of California College of the Arts, has raised over $12,000 from 132 donors—a feat achieved in under four weeks. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Diversity scholarships comprise 10% of the school’s endowment at $3 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Guinan says what she’s heard from CCA’s Black students in particular is that the diversity scholarship program doesn’t prioritize them and they often don’t see those funds. The scholarships, according to CCA’s website, are offered to “students from educationally disadvantaged families who have demonstrated academic and artistic achievement, students with demonstrated leadership in service to the community, and students whose work focuses on social or cultural issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign hopes to disburse $1,000 each to those who need help with rent and larger expenses, and $500 grants for assistance with artist supplies and other “hidden fees that really add up,” Guinan explains. CCA estimates the additional costs of attending the school while living in the Bay Area, factoring in fees, housing, transportation, food and supplies, can amount to around $25,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13883981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13883981\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student projects in the Nave at CCA’s San Francisco campus. \u003ccite>(Nicholas Lea Bruno/CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/thriving/health-wellness/novel-coronavirus-covid19/fall-2020-semester-will-be-online/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CCA announced\u003c/a> all of the upcoming fall semester’s courses will be taught completely remotely due to new guidance from the San Francisco Department of Public Health—not, as the school had hoped, in a combination of in-person and remote instruction. Though the school’s Oakland and San Francisco campuses will be completely closed to students until it is deemed safe to reopen—meaning no access to studios, wood shops, computer labs or the library—the school will continue to offer single-occupancy on-campus housing for students who need or want to live at CCA. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike SFAI, which recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883757/sfai-reinstates-degree-programs-faculty-students\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">enticed students to re-enroll\u003c/a> with offers of a 50% tuition cut, CCA’s 2020–21 tuition is frozen at the previous school year’s rate. The only cuts were to a planned 4% increase. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Speedy Delivery of Grants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of the impetus for keeping the Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign separate from the school, Guinan says, was a dissatisfaction with the speed at which CCA was able to disperse coronavirus-related relief funds to the student body. CCA received a total of nearly $1.4 million from the CARES Act fund, half of which will be disbursed in emergency financial aid grants of $500–$3,000 to eligible students between the 2019–20 and 2020–21 school years. Lott says their records indicate 745 students may be eligible to apply for these funds; so far 104 requests have been approved. (Dispersal \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/wesleywhistle/2020/06/11/devos-finalizes-rule-blocking-undocumented-students-from-cares-act-grants/#2928675675a0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">was slowed\u003c/a> by a lack of guidance from the Department of Education.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, CCA launched their own emergency fund to assist with students’ basic immediate needs in the face of the pandemic. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>t’s odd, the relationship America has with its history. There is this unbudging death grip on the moments that flatter this nation and selective amnesia when it comes to moments that are dark and shameful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We throw fits over statues of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/us/confederate-statues-monuments-removal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">slave owners\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">colonizers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> being pulled down—statues that were erected as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confederate-monuments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reminders of white supremacy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> during moments of heightened racial tension, such as the Reconstruction, Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights movement. Yet we don’t think twice about the fact that tragedies like the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/tulsa-massacre-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tulsa race massacre\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> aren’t taught in American history at any level of K-12 education.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am infuriated that I didn’t read the words of great minds like James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois or Angela Davis until I was in my 30s—figures who refused to whitewash or sanitize the conversation around race and inequality in America. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When historical wounds are never mended, the rot of hate is allowed to fester and spread into other vital parts of the body. Wounds don’t heal unless they are properly diagnosed and tended to. If you take one look at the protests across the nation, you can see the wounded. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882901\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Oakland in June 2020. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s the country prepares to celebrate the Fourth of July, I can’t help but think of the words \u003ca href=\"https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frederick Douglass spoke\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on July 5, 1852 in Rochester, New York.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I say with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me.The Fourth of July is yours, not mine, You may rejoice, I must mourn.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ten years after Douglass gave his speech, nearly 3.5 million enslaved Black people would be given the status of “free”—that was nearly 100 years after the 13 American colonies seceded from King George III’s United Kingdom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Challenging the hypocrisy of celebrating Independence Day isn’t new, but unfortunately it is still very relevant. Today, people aren’t just out protesting the unjust deaths of Black people at the hands of police, they are protesting the many disparities Black communities face. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disparities in wages, the justice system, loans, housing, education and access to medical care all continue to plague Black communities. And this year, we watched a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/872711019/examining-racial-disparities-observed-during-coronavirus-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">global pandemic\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ravage them all over the United States. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, examining the past and the present of this country, was there ever an Independence Day when Black Americans truly felt included or proud? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Were Black Americans expected to celebrate Independence Day in 1919, during the “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/news/red-summer-1919-riots-chicago-dc-great-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Red Summer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”? That year, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/death-hundreds-elaine-massacre-led-supreme-court-take-major-step-toward-equal-justice-african-americans-180969863/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elaine Massacre in Arkansas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> led to the deaths of nearly 300 Black Americans, including World War I veteran \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ualr.edu/news/2018/09/13/leroy-johnston-medals/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leroy Johnston\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Johnston was critically wounded in France, only to come home and be shot to death alongside his brothers by a white mob. It took over 90 years for Johnston to receive his Purple Heart earned in service to a country that barely recognized his citizenship. Even as he fought under the flag we wave on Independence Day, Johnston was not afforded the basic right to life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882903\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-IV-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-IV-003.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-IV-003-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-IV-003-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Oakland in June 2020. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Were Black Americans expected to celebrate in 1896–1965, when the Jim Crow laws undermined their citizenship and voting rights?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Were Black Americans expected to celebrate in 1921,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">after the Tulsa race massacre? White mobs murdered men, women and children, using land and air attacks that leveled a 35-block district known as “Black Wall Street.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Were Black Americans expected to celebrate in 1965, when \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://freedomcenter.org/voice/death-sparked-selma-montgomery-marches-1965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jimmie Lee Jackson\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was gunned down by a white police officer during a non-violent voting rights protest in Selma? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Were Black Americans expected to celebrate in 1998? I remember being terrified in the weeks leading up to Independence Day as I drove with my parents through Jasper, Texas on a trip to visit family in Louisiana. On June 7, just two weeks before we drove through the sleepy, Southern town, every major news network reported that three white men tied a Black man named \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/james-byrd-jr-lynching-texas-death-row-execution-1394474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Byrd Jr\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him for miles until his body tore into pieces. I never forgot the chalk circles on the roadway that investigators drew to identify the location of his head, torso, arms and legs. Was I supposed to scarf down hot dogs, pop firecrackers and sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” that year?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once again, this year’s Independence Day feels heavy for Black Americans. Just over a month ago, I watched a video of George Floyd murdered in the streets of Minneapolis as police officer Derek Chauvin jabbed his knee into his neck, stripping him of his dignity. For nearly nine minutes, I watched Chauvin kneel on Floyd’s neck like a hunter standing over a trophy bear. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just a little over a week ago, I watched the president of the United States retweet and praise a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/28/politics/trump-tweet-supporters-man-chants-white-power/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">video of a protest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> where a man chanted the phrase “white power.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How enthusiastic about Independence Day should my family and I be? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882905\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murals in downtown Oakland call for justice for victims of police violence. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>nce you understand American history in all of its cruelty, it’s easy to see why people want to pull down statues of so-called great Americans like \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/why-is-confederate-general-albert-pike-memorialized-at-judiciary-square/2016/10/22/9d69f26c-96ed-11e6-bc79-af1cd3d2984b_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Confederate general Albert Pike\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, who had strong ties to the KKK, and Confederate general Robert E. Lee, who was a slave owner. These monuments are a sham; they are a physical manifestation of gaslighting about the origins of this nation. These images, these flags, these great Americans—they are all coded language from those who have power and status to maintain. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the rest of us, American history is made up of horror stories, and people are tired of the reminders. People have naturally grown weary to tipping their hats to falsehood. People have grown tired of begging for immovable governments to move on their behalf.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, we should look at Independence Day as more than a day to barbecue and drink, more than a day to light fireworks and jump in pools. I suggest that this year we take a look at ourselves, take a look at our country and celebrate it for what it is and recognize its failures.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">History is not the death of time but the continuous sequence of life. The injuries endured will sustain the injured as a testament to their strength and resilience.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ruffdraftvisuals.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Ruffin\u003c/a> is an Oakland photographer, writer and visual artist. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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There is this unbudging death grip on the moments that flatter this nation and selective amnesia when it comes to moments that are dark and shameful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We throw fits over statues of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/us/confederate-statues-monuments-removal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">slave owners\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">colonizers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> being pulled down—statues that were erected as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confederate-monuments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reminders of white supremacy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> during moments of heightened racial tension, such as the Reconstruction, Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights movement. Yet we don’t think twice about the fact that tragedies like the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/tulsa-massacre-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tulsa race massacre\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> aren’t taught in American history at any level of K-12 education.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am infuriated that I didn’t read the words of great minds like James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois or Angela Davis until I was in my 30s—figures who refused to whitewash or sanitize the conversation around race and inequality in America. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When historical wounds are never mended, the rot of hate is allowed to fester and spread into other vital parts of the body. Wounds don’t heal unless they are properly diagnosed and tended to. If you take one look at the protests across the nation, you can see the wounded. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882901\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-0031.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Oakland in June 2020. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s the country prepares to celebrate the Fourth of July, I can’t help but think of the words \u003ca href=\"https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frederick Douglass spoke\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on July 5, 1852 in Rochester, New York.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I say with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me.The Fourth of July is yours, not mine, You may rejoice, I must mourn.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ten years after Douglass gave his speech, nearly 3.5 million enslaved Black people would be given the status of “free”—that was nearly 100 years after the 13 American colonies seceded from King George III’s United Kingdom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Challenging the hypocrisy of celebrating Independence Day isn’t new, but unfortunately it is still very relevant. Today, people aren’t just out protesting the unjust deaths of Black people at the hands of police, they are protesting the many disparities Black communities face. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disparities in wages, the justice system, loans, housing, education and access to medical care all continue to plague Black communities. And this year, we watched a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/872711019/examining-racial-disparities-observed-during-coronavirus-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">global pandemic\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ravage them all over the United States. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, examining the past and the present of this country, was there ever an Independence Day when Black Americans truly felt included or proud? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Were Black Americans expected to celebrate Independence Day in 1919, during the “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/news/red-summer-1919-riots-chicago-dc-great-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Red Summer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”? That year, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/death-hundreds-elaine-massacre-led-supreme-court-take-major-step-toward-equal-justice-african-americans-180969863/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elaine Massacre in Arkansas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> led to the deaths of nearly 300 Black Americans, including World War I veteran \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ualr.edu/news/2018/09/13/leroy-johnston-medals/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leroy Johnston\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Johnston was critically wounded in France, only to come home and be shot to death alongside his brothers by a white mob. It took over 90 years for Johnston to receive his Purple Heart earned in service to a country that barely recognized his citizenship. Even as he fought under the flag we wave on Independence Day, Johnston was not afforded the basic right to life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882903\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-IV-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-IV-003.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-IV-003-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Justice-For-Floyd-IV-003-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Oakland in June 2020. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Were Black Americans expected to celebrate in 1896–1965, when the Jim Crow laws undermined their citizenship and voting rights?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Were Black Americans expected to celebrate in 1921,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">after the Tulsa race massacre? White mobs murdered men, women and children, using land and air attacks that leveled a 35-block district known as “Black Wall Street.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Were Black Americans expected to celebrate in 1965, when \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://freedomcenter.org/voice/death-sparked-selma-montgomery-marches-1965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jimmie Lee Jackson\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was gunned down by a white police officer during a non-violent voting rights protest in Selma? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Were Black Americans expected to celebrate in 1998? I remember being terrified in the weeks leading up to Independence Day as I drove with my parents through Jasper, Texas on a trip to visit family in Louisiana. On June 7, just two weeks before we drove through the sleepy, Southern town, every major news network reported that three white men tied a Black man named \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/james-byrd-jr-lynching-texas-death-row-execution-1394474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Byrd Jr\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him for miles until his body tore into pieces. I never forgot the chalk circles on the roadway that investigators drew to identify the location of his head, torso, arms and legs. Was I supposed to scarf down hot dogs, pop firecrackers and sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” that year?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once again, this year’s Independence Day feels heavy for Black Americans. Just over a month ago, I watched a video of George Floyd murdered in the streets of Minneapolis as police officer Derek Chauvin jabbed his knee into his neck, stripping him of his dignity. For nearly nine minutes, I watched Chauvin kneel on Floyd’s neck like a hunter standing over a trophy bear. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just a little over a week ago, I watched the president of the United States retweet and praise a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/28/politics/trump-tweet-supporters-man-chants-white-power/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">video of a protest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> where a man chanted the phrase “white power.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How enthusiastic about Independence Day should my family and I be? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882905\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Oak-Revolution-Art-0053.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murals in downtown Oakland call for justice for victims of police violence. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>nce you understand American history in all of its cruelty, it’s easy to see why people want to pull down statues of so-called great Americans like \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/why-is-confederate-general-albert-pike-memorialized-at-judiciary-square/2016/10/22/9d69f26c-96ed-11e6-bc79-af1cd3d2984b_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Confederate general Albert Pike\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, who had strong ties to the KKK, and Confederate general Robert E. Lee, who was a slave owner. These monuments are a sham; they are a physical manifestation of gaslighting about the origins of this nation. These images, these flags, these great Americans—they are all coded language from those who have power and status to maintain. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the rest of us, American history is made up of horror stories, and people are tired of the reminders. People have naturally grown weary to tipping their hats to falsehood. People have grown tired of begging for immovable governments to move on their behalf.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, we should look at Independence Day as more than a day to barbecue and drink, more than a day to light fireworks and jump in pools. I suggest that this year we take a look at ourselves, take a look at our country and celebrate it for what it is and recognize its failures.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">History is not the death of time but the continuous sequence of life. The injuries endured will sustain the injured as a testament to their strength and resilience.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13882918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ReginaJacksonInline.jpg\" alt=\"Regina Jackson\" width=\"731\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ReginaJacksonInline.jpg 731w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ReginaJacksonInline-160x165.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is police reform actually achievable? That’s the question I’m most interested in asking Regina Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Regina, as she’s often called, has been the Executive Director of the \u003ca href=\"http://eoydc.org/president/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Oakland Youth Development Center\u003c/a> since 1994. That’s where she perfected her system of mentorship and community engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen her skills firsthand: In 2014, I was a part of a trip she organized as a part of President Barack Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative, where 17 young African American men spent two weeks in China. Through Ms. Regina’s practice of connecting men of different ages—or “staggered mentorship,” as she calls it—I saw the young men grow over the course of the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBGKS5hnz94/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ms. Regina\u003c/a> was elected to a four-year term as the Chair of the Oakland Police Commission—an independent review board that works outside of OPD to oversee policies and practices within the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Regina’s goal is to bring her philosophies on mentorship and community development to the Oakland Police Commission, in the hopes that it will result in substantial reform to the Oakland Police Department– which has been under a federal monitor since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of knowing the power of Ms. Regina’s work, given all that I’ve experienced with police in America, especially over these past few weeks–with footage of George Floyd’s Death and the tale of Breonna Taylor’s death—I’m pessimistic about the potential of “reforming” police departments in America, Oakland’s included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if anyone is going to make a dent in police reform, it’s going to be someone like Ms. Regina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1973479913&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Regina Jackson.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: I want to ask you about your work that you’re doing with the Oakland Police Department. How does hope play into your efforts to change what’s going on inside that institution?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regina: I have been able to create a toolkit to transform young people who have never been to college and never known how to do jobs, to be supervisors, to be doctors and PHDS and all the rest of that. So I thought the skill set that I have and the programs that I have created, these kinds of things could probably work inside policing. You know, you have to greet people in a humanizing way when you stop black males, for example. Your first question should not be, are you on probation or parole? It should be. How are you doing today? You should humanize the engagement between police, because let’s face it, they can’t do their jobs without community. And community will never feel safe if they don’t have a trusted relationship with the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Given everything that’s transpired recently, historically as well, I’m not believing that change can occur. And so I’m wondering: is just changing the little pebble that is the Oakland Police Department, will that help in moving the mountain in terms of the change that we’re looking to get in America?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regina: I absolutely believe that it will. Being able to fire the police chief already sets us on a national course around leadership. And so people are looking at us to see what it is that we’re going to do. How do you identify and support the things that are good? And how do you identify and delete the things that are bad? People kind of have to look around and say, OK. Can I get away with this? And if they see that most people can’t, they won’t even try. The only way to make change is a little bit at a time. 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"content": "\u003cp>A little under a year ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.esowonbookstore.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eso Won Books\u003c/a>, a Black-owned bookstore in Los Angeles, hosted Ibram X. Kendi for a signing. Eso Won sold about 40 copies of Kendi’s newest book, \u003cem>How to Be an Antiracist\u003c/em>, that night. In the months after, they sold very few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in these past few weeks? They’ve sold 500 copies—and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Eso Won is the busiest it’s been in three decades (and it’s hosted the likes of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Muhammad Ali.) The store’s owners, James Fugate and Tom Hamilton, along with a handful of other workers, are now filling hundreds of new orders each day—compared with the few dozen they normally had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1031\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85-800x589.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85-768x566.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Fugate, co-owner of Eso Won Books in Los Angeles, says the store has never been busier. ‘We decided to stop answering the phones,’ he says. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As protests and conversations about race have gripped the country, two phenomena have accompanied it: \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/anti-racist-reading-lists-what-are-they-for.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread sharing of anti-racist reading lists\u003c/a> and a renewed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/26/883823723/activists-are-pushing-for-consumers-to-support-black-businesses-is-it-sustainabl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call to support Black businesses\u003c/a>. Black-owned bookstores have found themselves in the middle of that zeitgeist. Local bookstores are being asked to keep up with national and even international demand. And businesses that were in danger of shutting down because of the coronavirus are suddenly selling more books than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13881522']But as Black bookstore owners race to meet their demands, many are dealing with complicated, sometimes painful feelings about what the new business means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Eso Won, titles such as \u003cem>How to Be an Anti-Racist\u003c/em> and \u003cem>White Fragility\u003c/em> have been popular, Fugate says, and lesser-known titles about race have also been selling unusually well. The demand has kept Fugate in the store from 6 in the morning until 8 at night, packaging books to bring to the post office, handling invoices and answering emails from customers asking for updates. “It’s never, never like this,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"932\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eso Won Books has been selling popular and less-known titles about race, according to Fugate (right), who helps Esteban Zaragoza, 11, and his mom, Karina Murillo, find a book on the Black Panthers. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fugate says he’s amazed at how dramatically the tide has turned for his store. He remembers a Zoom call with Paul Coates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/2018/1/2/paul-coates-ta-nehisi-coates-father-on-black-classic-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the founder of Black Classic Press\u003c/a>, who has been organizing Black booksellers to help them stay alive during the pandemic. “I said, ‘Everybody has to promote themselves. You have to do emails promoting the books,’” he says. Now, the promotion has taken on a life of its own—one that he never envisioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was first [thinking] \u003cem>it’s like Christmas and we’re not prepared\u003c/em>. And [then] I thought, no, I don’t want to compare this to Christmas, because you hear [George Floyd] moaning and yelling on the ground,” he says. “It makes you sick to your stomach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882649\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/cheryssecalhoun-nprportrait-copy_custom-31edbadac92d0d58174c7d92679aee9e1dea16c0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"355\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882649\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/cheryssecalhoun-nprportrait-copy_custom-31edbadac92d0d58174c7d92679aee9e1dea16c0.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/cheryssecalhoun-nprportrait-copy_custom-31edbadac92d0d58174c7d92679aee9e1dea16c0-160x284.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherysse Calhoun, a third-generation bookseller, helps run Marcus Books in Oakland with her family. \u003ccite>(LA Johnson/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In conversations with Black bookstore owners across the country, just about everyone echoed the same things. Managers from \u003ca href=\"http://underground-books.com/\">Underground Books\u003c/a> in Sacramento, California and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sourcebooksellers.com/about\">Source Booksellers\u003c/a> in Detroit say they’re swamped with orders and working as quickly as they can to get them out. Many say they’re grateful for the business, especially as the pandemic had forced them to close their doors temporarily. But they’re heartbroken by the circumstances—outrage over videos and stories of police brutalizing Black people—and can’t help but wonder how long the surge in interest will last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fears and uncertainty about remaining in business are rooted in these Black bookstores’ history. They’ve have always had to fight for their existence—the FBI’s COINTELPRO program even used to monitor them for supposedly being “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/fbi-black-bookstores/553598/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">culture centers for extremism\u003c/a>.” On top of a long legacy of Black businesses being denied loans and capital, the mandatory shutdowns during the pandemic—and Black-owned businesses’\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/12/853934104/minority-owned-small-businesses-were-supposed-to-get-priority-they-may-not-have\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">difficulties accessing government relief funds\u003c/a>—became a new kind of existential threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/marcus.books/\">Marcus Books in Oakland\u003c/a>, California, the oldest Black independent bookstore in the country, was in danger of going under. It had launched a GoFundMe to help stay afloat as sales became “borderline stagnant” and foot traffic disappeared, says Cherysse Calhoun, who helps run Marcus Books with her mother, Blanche Richardson. Calhoun’s grandparents founded the store in 1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The store has been a community pillar ever since, attracting customers such as Malcolm X and featuring events from Maya Angelou to Toni Morrison. Locals who shopped there decades ago now bring their children and grandchildren, Calhoun says, which she treasures: “We have that base, which lifts us up every single time, any time we’re at the edge of our own exhaustion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1866\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus Books in Oakland is the oldest independent Black-owned bookstore in the country. It opened in 1960. \u003ccite>(Cherysse Calhoun/Marcus Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And right now, they’re exhausted. Marcus Books is a family operation, which means that cousins, aunts and uncles have been pitching in to answer phones and take messages, placing and organizing orders, and taking things to the post office. “We’ve had volunteers over the past few weeks who have just come in to answer the phone,” Calhoun says. “One of us has to step in so that they can even just use the bathroom or go to lunch … because you can literally stand there from 10 to 6 and just answer the phone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the attention, while appreciated, feels strange. Calhoun notes that a lot of titles that have been selling out—\u003cem>The Warmth of Other Suns, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?\u003c/em> and books by James Baldwin and Assata Shakur—have been out for years, even decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Black booksellers, it’s so exciting for people to be interested and wanting to learn and grow their minds and their spirits with this type of literature,” Calhoun says. “But it’s also so disheartening to have to think that there’s just such a large group of people … were actually in a position not to have to educate themselves this way [before now]. That part makes me sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882661\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malik Muhammad runs his Los Angeles bookstore with his wife, April, and children Mecca (left) and Zahir. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Malik Muhammad, owner of \u003ca href=\"https://malikbooks.com/\">Malik Books in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, had recently fought to keep developers from buying Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, a historically Black mall that houses his bookstore. (The developer, CIM Group, reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-06-15/developer-drops-plan-to-buy-baldwin-hills-crenshaw-plaza-and-add-offices-not-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scrapped its plans to buy the mall\u003c/a> and turn it into a mixed-use complex last week.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad is also excited about the renewed calls to support Black businesses such as his; he says it’s taken a lot of work and struggle to get here. He and his family, who help him run the store, have been stocking books about Black history and anti-racism for decades—long before it was popular. “The last two weeks have been overwhelming. It’s been a blessing, and it gave me hope that hard work pays off,” he says. “You know, it didn’t just happen overnight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the future remains uncertain for many Black bookstores. As quickly as some Americans have ordered books on anti-racism, they’re just as likely to turn their attention to something else, says Katie Mitchell, \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodbooksatl.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">co-owner of Good Books in Atlanta\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘We’re making a lot of money, and we’re happy that people are reading books,’ says Katie Mitchell, co-owner of Good Books in Atlanta. ‘But … I’d much rather George Floyd be alive.’ \u003ccite>(Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Things are trendy for a while … and then they’re not, once it’s comfortable for people that go back to their old ways,” Mitchell says. “Will it still be going on a year from now, or is it just a flash in the pan?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says she’s been wrestling with how she feels about this moment. She spent a lot of time last year reaching out to publications about profiling her store, to little avail. Now, in a news cycle revolving around Black death, the store has been getting the kind of attention it had wanted earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re making a lot of money, and we’re happy that people are reading books. But it took the lynching of George Floyd to be played on a loop for people to be interested in things that we’ve been pushing for, you know, for a long time,” she says. “I’d much rather George Floyd be alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Copyright 2020 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A little under a year ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.esowonbookstore.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eso Won Books\u003c/a>, a Black-owned bookstore in Los Angeles, hosted Ibram X. Kendi for a signing. Eso Won sold about 40 copies of Kendi’s newest book, \u003cem>How to Be an Antiracist\u003c/em>, that night. In the months after, they sold very few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in these past few weeks? They’ve sold 500 copies—and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Eso Won is the busiest it’s been in three decades (and it’s hosted the likes of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Muhammad Ali.) The store’s owners, James Fugate and Tom Hamilton, along with a handful of other workers, are now filling hundreds of new orders each day—compared with the few dozen they normally had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1031\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85-800x589.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks_custom-ac79cace81851f8d61a34fbeed3604ae1990e605-s1400-c85-768x566.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Fugate, co-owner of Eso Won Books in Los Angeles, says the store has never been busier. ‘We decided to stop answering the phones,’ he says. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As protests and conversations about race have gripped the country, two phenomena have accompanied it: \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/anti-racist-reading-lists-what-are-they-for.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread sharing of anti-racist reading lists\u003c/a> and a renewed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/26/883823723/activists-are-pushing-for-consumers-to-support-black-businesses-is-it-sustainabl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call to support Black businesses\u003c/a>. Black-owned bookstores have found themselves in the middle of that zeitgeist. Local bookstores are being asked to keep up with national and even international demand. And businesses that were in danger of shutting down because of the coronavirus are suddenly selling more books than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But as Black bookstore owners race to meet their demands, many are dealing with complicated, sometimes painful feelings about what the new business means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Eso Won, titles such as \u003cem>How to Be an Anti-Racist\u003c/em> and \u003cem>White Fragility\u003c/em> have been popular, Fugate says, and lesser-known titles about race have also been selling unusually well. The demand has kept Fugate in the store from 6 in the morning until 8 at night, packaging books to bring to the post office, handling invoices and answering emails from customers asking for updates. “It’s never, never like this,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"932\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-james-esowonbooks-2_custom-5c9063a62f9ad1506f228907502239870f8ab62a-s1400-c85-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eso Won Books has been selling popular and less-known titles about race, according to Fugate (right), who helps Esteban Zaragoza, 11, and his mom, Karina Murillo, find a book on the Black Panthers. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fugate says he’s amazed at how dramatically the tide has turned for his store. He remembers a Zoom call with Paul Coates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/2018/1/2/paul-coates-ta-nehisi-coates-father-on-black-classic-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the founder of Black Classic Press\u003c/a>, who has been organizing Black booksellers to help them stay alive during the pandemic. “I said, ‘Everybody has to promote themselves. You have to do emails promoting the books,’” he says. Now, the promotion has taken on a life of its own—one that he never envisioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was first [thinking] \u003cem>it’s like Christmas and we’re not prepared\u003c/em>. And [then] I thought, no, I don’t want to compare this to Christmas, because you hear [George Floyd] moaning and yelling on the ground,” he says. “It makes you sick to your stomach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882649\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/cheryssecalhoun-nprportrait-copy_custom-31edbadac92d0d58174c7d92679aee9e1dea16c0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"355\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882649\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/cheryssecalhoun-nprportrait-copy_custom-31edbadac92d0d58174c7d92679aee9e1dea16c0.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/cheryssecalhoun-nprportrait-copy_custom-31edbadac92d0d58174c7d92679aee9e1dea16c0-160x284.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherysse Calhoun, a third-generation bookseller, helps run Marcus Books in Oakland with her family. \u003ccite>(LA Johnson/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In conversations with Black bookstore owners across the country, just about everyone echoed the same things. Managers from \u003ca href=\"http://underground-books.com/\">Underground Books\u003c/a> in Sacramento, California and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sourcebooksellers.com/about\">Source Booksellers\u003c/a> in Detroit say they’re swamped with orders and working as quickly as they can to get them out. Many say they’re grateful for the business, especially as the pandemic had forced them to close their doors temporarily. But they’re heartbroken by the circumstances—outrage over videos and stories of police brutalizing Black people—and can’t help but wonder how long the surge in interest will last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fears and uncertainty about remaining in business are rooted in these Black bookstores’ history. They’ve have always had to fight for their existence—the FBI’s COINTELPRO program even used to monitor them for supposedly being “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/fbi-black-bookstores/553598/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">culture centers for extremism\u003c/a>.” On top of a long legacy of Black businesses being denied loans and capital, the mandatory shutdowns during the pandemic—and Black-owned businesses’\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/12/853934104/minority-owned-small-businesses-were-supposed-to-get-priority-they-may-not-have\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">difficulties accessing government relief funds\u003c/a>—became a new kind of existential threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/marcus.books/\">Marcus Books in Oakland\u003c/a>, California, the oldest Black independent bookstore in the country, was in danger of going under. It had launched a GoFundMe to help stay afloat as sales became “borderline stagnant” and foot traffic disappeared, says Cherysse Calhoun, who helps run Marcus Books with her mother, Blanche Richardson. Calhoun’s grandparents founded the store in 1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The store has been a community pillar ever since, attracting customers such as Malcolm X and featuring events from Maya Angelou to Toni Morrison. Locals who shopped there decades ago now bring their children and grandchildren, Calhoun says, which she treasures: “We have that base, which lifts us up every single time, any time we’re at the edge of our own exhaustion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1866\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ccalhoun_marcus2_custom-5d2cbaf3f683394541431f40bee0502c3b1b2c2e-s1400-c85-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus Books in Oakland is the oldest independent Black-owned bookstore in the country. It opened in 1960. \u003ccite>(Cherysse Calhoun/Marcus Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And right now, they’re exhausted. Marcus Books is a family operation, which means that cousins, aunts and uncles have been pitching in to answer phones and take messages, placing and organizing orders, and taking things to the post office. “We’ve had volunteers over the past few weeks who have just come in to answer the phone,” Calhoun says. “One of us has to step in so that they can even just use the bathroom or go to lunch … because you can literally stand there from 10 to 6 and just answer the phone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the attention, while appreciated, feels strange. Calhoun notes that a lot of titles that have been selling out—\u003cem>The Warmth of Other Suns, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?\u003c/em> and books by James Baldwin and Assata Shakur—have been out for years, even decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Black booksellers, it’s so exciting for people to be interested and wanting to learn and grow their minds and their spirits with this type of literature,” Calhoun says. “But it’s also so disheartening to have to think that there’s just such a large group of people … were actually in a position not to have to educate themselves this way [before now]. That part makes me sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882661\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/smm-malikbooks-family_slide-7a4516ff79169e6baa14ec4e17ed08cade516ad5-s1400-c85-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malik Muhammad runs his Los Angeles bookstore with his wife, April, and children Mecca (left) and Zahir. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Malik Muhammad, owner of \u003ca href=\"https://malikbooks.com/\">Malik Books in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, had recently fought to keep developers from buying Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, a historically Black mall that houses his bookstore. (The developer, CIM Group, reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-06-15/developer-drops-plan-to-buy-baldwin-hills-crenshaw-plaza-and-add-offices-not-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scrapped its plans to buy the mall\u003c/a> and turn it into a mixed-use complex last week.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad is also excited about the renewed calls to support Black businesses such as his; he says it’s taken a lot of work and struggle to get here. He and his family, who help him run the store, have been stocking books about Black history and anti-racism for decades—long before it was popular. “The last two weeks have been overwhelming. It’s been a blessing, and it gave me hope that hard work pays off,” he says. “You know, it didn’t just happen overnight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the future remains uncertain for many Black bookstores. As quickly as some Americans have ordered books on anti-racism, they’re just as likely to turn their attention to something else, says Katie Mitchell, \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodbooksatl.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">co-owner of Good Books in Atlanta\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/lw4_9932_slide-1a722d2726425acdb593a3e21b4b27f43fc57e28-s1400-c85-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘We’re making a lot of money, and we’re happy that people are reading books,’ says Katie Mitchell, co-owner of Good Books in Atlanta. ‘But … I’d much rather George Floyd be alive.’ \u003ccite>(Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Things are trendy for a while … and then they’re not, once it’s comfortable for people that go back to their old ways,” Mitchell says. “Will it still be going on a year from now, or is it just a flash in the pan?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says she’s been wrestling with how she feels about this moment. She spent a lot of time last year reaching out to publications about profiling her store, to little avail. Now, in a news cycle revolving around Black death, the store has been getting the kind of attention it had wanted earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re making a lot of money, and we’re happy that people are reading books. But it took the lynching of George Floyd to be played on a loop for people to be interested in things that we’ve been pushing for, you know, for a long time,” she says. “I’d much rather George Floyd be alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Copyright 2020 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> can’t tell you if it’s music for the movement, music for “the moment,” or just music to make money. But I can tell you artists have been working. And I’ve been listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the COVID-19 pandemic, the nationwide protests and the push for defunding the police, a wave of songs has arrived, all of them documenting the beginning of summertime in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Beyoncé released the track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJT1m1ele00\">Black Parade\u003c/a>,” a lil’ southern flavor to accompany the Juneteenth holiday. Queen B doubled down on its message of Black empowerment by teaming up with stylist Zerina Akers, who runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBn6B4iFkNr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@black.owned.everything\u003c/a> page, to create a Black business directory called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.beyonce.com/black-parade-route/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Parade Route\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Cole and Noname had a back-and-forth, during which Cole dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZa3HyVLimQ\">Snow On The Bluff\u003c/a>,” a call for Noname to make her message accessible to the masses. Noname responded with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFp1eW2bihg\">Song 33\u003c/a>,” a track that pretty much asked J. Cole why he was rapping about her, asking her to change her “tone,” when there are far more important issues to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VDGysJGNoI\">Lil Baby\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5HN-4396Jo\">Tee Grizzley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWZkjXCU-ds\">Trey Songz\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramteyfi9bE\">YG\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUnc3kl0DcA\">Meek Mill\u003c/a> all dropped songs about police brutality and systematic racism. Wale released a six-song EP, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHzeg4D5T9v4peshRjOitaZVT9N05Kt2f&src=Linkfire&lId=747b96e4-d374-4dd3-8990-9a4dcab5c737&cId=d3d58fd7-4c47-11e6-9fd0-066c3e7a8751\">The Imperfect Storm\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which covers those issues and more. DaBaby released a “Black Lives Matter Remix” to his chart-topping song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Em5cZFocQ0&feature=emb_title\">Rockstar\u003c/a>” featuring Roddy Ricch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Anderson .Paak crossed off all the boxes on his “Summer Song 2020” bingo card—he put out a song called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgItkJCm09c\">Lockdown\u003c/a>,” on Juneteenth, that managed to mention COVID, police brutality, looting, slavery, protests \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgItkJCm09c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">U\u003c/span>p here in the Bay Area, one of the most politically engaged and artistically inclined regions in the country, you already know artists have been getting active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-40’s new track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT20KfhnQow\">Give Me 6\u003c/a>” is a musical request that suggests maintaining the proper physical distance for pandemic socializing. Oakland’s Damian Lillard dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1wQ7_h824U\">Blacklist\u003c/a>,” a track about the racism he faces, even as a wealthy African American man. And Berkeley’s Rexx Life Raj released a single about police brutality simply called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL4VLUSfwg8&feature=youtu.be\">War\u003c/a>”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s the artists who aren’t as popular who’ve really been talking that shit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/STSpittin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ST Spittin’\u003c/a> in traffic recently, where he said he had something for me. His latest single “Huey P. Malcolm Martin” features a sample of Stevie Wonder’s “Visions”—and I was sold on it from the first note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/2VM99IYLF-I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NettaBrielle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netta Brielle\u003c/a> shifted the tempo with her new release, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU-3Uea4PyI\">Get To You\u003c/a>,” a song that’s more about embracing love than protesting hate—a needed sentiment in these times. Another track using R&B to express emotion during tumult came from Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TalyaPatrick\">Tai Marie\u003c/a>, who recently put out a soulful R&B single titled “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/ttaimarie/war-zone\">Warzone\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dipping her toes in the classical-piano realm is San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ImtheJournalist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angélica Ekeke\u003c/a>, who just put out the song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CByayJUh8qs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modern War\u003c/a>.” She says the track is inspired by her upcoming film on African American contributions during WWII at one of the nation’s largest shipyards, right here in Marin. But the words she sings, in her trademark soprano tone, are eerily relevant to today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Sacramento, Rob Woods’ \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/therealrobwoods/sets/the-black-tape/s-7dyuknyLjtr\">The Black Tape\u003c/a>\u003c/em> mixes rap lyrics about hope and oppression over R&B vibes, and an undertone of that church feeling throughout the project. (He even incorporates a cold saxophone on the song “Stuck.”) And Pittsburg’s Hotboikal shot the video for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO1dP7CMy78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hands Up, Man Down\u003c/a>” in the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269139427751673858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">middle of a protest march\u003c/a> in Santa Rosa, with lyrics about racial profiling and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO1dP7CMy78\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharing that sentiment is Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WallahUmoja\">Wallah Umoja\u003c/a>, who dropped a new video for an older track, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/7vbwGIkNzDs2PKryN9BFZ0?highlight=spotify:track:3ZPM9hdhw42oKotLM4Zc2N\">Senses\u003c/a>, delivered in a boom-bap cadence. Following that flow is Dom Shalom’s “\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/7HmoIXj4Z0GQhNXdqqrj19?si=FgqfUqSgRDiZnmo79Tx-FA\">The Next\u003c/a>,” a chill vibe that I’d also describe as boom-bap rap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you like music that bends genres, Oakland’s Dom Jones came through with soulful jazz-rock for the spirit. Her latest track “\u003ca href=\"https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/domjones/sayin-nothin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sayin’ Nothin’\u003c/a>” is the stuff movie soundtracks are made of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of movies, the content in Nicholas Easter’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKDyDBIOjhs&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1AhAh620HVoEkRP5kgQAgHRIl67PQlv0gQ-B_58KHGMhC-ZvWfjerpwog\">Native Tongue\u003c/a>” video isn’t a song as much as it is a compilation of speeches and interviews from the civil rights era to today’s Black Lives Matter movement—featuring the likes of Maya Angelou, Ryan Coogler and Tupac, all layered on top of modern-day footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want more spoken-word quotes? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ClifSoulo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clif Soulo\u003c/a> offers a new release titled \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/clifsoulo/sets/bunchy-carter-grooves/s-YAJYJ0GJAOY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bunchy Carter Grooves\u003c/a> \u003c/em>that’s full of clips from interviews with former members of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want something more militant? Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BeastellaAllDat\">Beastella\u003c/a> got a verse from Jay Jonah, and dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snbr-qCpxjY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3PK1zW-v_0moh9V2MUE6rTuIIze6fyTQ15NGdcdCzHgb-QacprRGPR1gs\">1825\u003c/a>.” The track is up there with the most aggressive songs I’ve heard all month, and I’m here for it. As Jay Jonah says on the track: “She Harriet and I’m Nat,” comparing the duo to well-known abolitionist Harriet Tubman and rebellion leader Nat Turner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Snbr-qCpxjY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o yeah, I’ve been listening. I caught the a capella \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/caseycopesodope/status/1270886631994613762?s=20\">Twitter\u003c/a> post from San Leandro’s Casey Cope about being a Black man in these times, and I slapped Oaktownsoul’s trippy-hop bass-heavy joint “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/oaktownsoul/maskup\">Mask Up\u003c/a>.” I soaked in Gina Madrid’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=2NYtB9g8VrE&feature=emb_title\">Dame La Mano\u003c/a>” and was reminded the need for unity across different demographics. And through Coco Peila’s track “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/cocopeilamusic/coco-peila-whose-world-greennewdeal-prod-hawk-beatz/s-N5s69FMW0Gj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whose World?\u003c/a>” I was reminded that in the midst of everything, global warming is still an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I listened to Redtone Records’ “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQuiigys6I&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0Gf4iyMU8EYVPksCnr7TP84x8d8WBh-MMVKR3AiiMe4a3mVaVg5QUoWIs\">Right Now\u003c/a>!,” a bouncy jazz track with some New Orleans flavor, out of East Palo Alto. Man, I even listened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wGk8jZQfQ8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1EBRQ0yc2ZFzL-vonhWVVnsEaITwp8eQtrZ-pkDCnY0fKhu0w-Upn_ZlQ\">We Will Break Free, \u003c/a>written by Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis and performed by an acoustic ensemble over videoconferencing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A body isn’t made for a jail, or a box.\u003cbr>\nA body will defy all the fences, all the locks.\u003cbr>\nWe will break the walls that lock us into cells.\u003cbr>\nWe will break the laws that keep us from ourselves.\u003cbr>\nWe will break free.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Taking in all these songs was like reading reports from a classroom full of students who all got the same assignment. There was no wrong answer. In fact, the only wrong would be \u003cem>not\u003c/em> saying something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are, the real “song of the summer”—dubbed so by the music industry itself—will probably be a pop hit. 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And I’ve been listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the COVID-19 pandemic, the nationwide protests and the push for defunding the police, a wave of songs has arrived, all of them documenting the beginning of summertime in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Beyoncé released the track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJT1m1ele00\">Black Parade\u003c/a>,” a lil’ southern flavor to accompany the Juneteenth holiday. Queen B doubled down on its message of Black empowerment by teaming up with stylist Zerina Akers, who runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBn6B4iFkNr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@black.owned.everything\u003c/a> page, to create a Black business directory called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.beyonce.com/black-parade-route/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Parade Route\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Cole and Noname had a back-and-forth, during which Cole dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZa3HyVLimQ\">Snow On The Bluff\u003c/a>,” a call for Noname to make her message accessible to the masses. Noname responded with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFp1eW2bihg\">Song 33\u003c/a>,” a track that pretty much asked J. Cole why he was rapping about her, asking her to change her “tone,” when there are far more important issues to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VDGysJGNoI\">Lil Baby\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5HN-4396Jo\">Tee Grizzley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWZkjXCU-ds\">Trey Songz\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramteyfi9bE\">YG\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUnc3kl0DcA\">Meek Mill\u003c/a> all dropped songs about police brutality and systematic racism. Wale released a six-song EP, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHzeg4D5T9v4peshRjOitaZVT9N05Kt2f&src=Linkfire&lId=747b96e4-d374-4dd3-8990-9a4dcab5c737&cId=d3d58fd7-4c47-11e6-9fd0-066c3e7a8751\">The Imperfect Storm\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which covers those issues and more. DaBaby released a “Black Lives Matter Remix” to his chart-topping song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Em5cZFocQ0&feature=emb_title\">Rockstar\u003c/a>” featuring Roddy Ricch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Anderson .Paak crossed off all the boxes on his “Summer Song 2020” bingo card—he put out a song called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgItkJCm09c\">Lockdown\u003c/a>,” on Juneteenth, that managed to mention COVID, police brutality, looting, slavery, protests \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/TgItkJCm09c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/TgItkJCm09c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">U\u003c/span>p here in the Bay Area, one of the most politically engaged and artistically inclined regions in the country, you already know artists have been getting active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-40’s new track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT20KfhnQow\">Give Me 6\u003c/a>” is a musical request that suggests maintaining the proper physical distance for pandemic socializing. Oakland’s Damian Lillard dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1wQ7_h824U\">Blacklist\u003c/a>,” a track about the racism he faces, even as a wealthy African American man. And Berkeley’s Rexx Life Raj released a single about police brutality simply called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL4VLUSfwg8&feature=youtu.be\">War\u003c/a>”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s the artists who aren’t as popular who’ve really been talking that shit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/STSpittin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ST Spittin’\u003c/a> in traffic recently, where he said he had something for me. His latest single “Huey P. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over four weeks since a police officer killed George Floyd on video in Minneapolis, a nationwide reckoning with anti-Black racism is showing no signs of slowing. In the streets, protestors have participated in demonstrations of all sizes, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822771/bay-area-george-floyd-protests-police-violence-curfew-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a student-led march\u003c/a> of over 10,000 in San Francisco and 15,000 people \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/fifteen-thousand-marched-in-brooklyn-for-black-trans-lives.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">marching for Black trans lives\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in New York. Online, people have created and shared innumerable resources on anti-racist action and how to break down anti-Blackness in non-Black communities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This conversation has been especially prevalent in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community—for whom (now fired) police officer Tou Thao’s role in Floyd’s death exposed the deep-rooted ways Asians and Pacific Islanders have benefited from and contributed to systemic racism in America. For much of the last month, there’s been an uncharacteristic immediacy in the AAPI community to share content around \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBg1jYvjnT9/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">dismantling the “model minority myth”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and talks of returning to the Asian-Black solidarity of the 1960s. But in reality, these calls to action only scratch the surface of the long history of Asian identity in America. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To truly create sustained, long-term change for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) in America, we as Asian Americans must go deeper: We must understand our own racial positioning in this country and deconstruct our desire to assimilate into whiteness. We must keep having conversations with family members who lack awareness or carry racist ideals. And, finally, we must recognize that we are all on our own unique journey to solidarity—and that we must work together to create the change we all want to see.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do Research Beyond Social Media\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Social media can be an extremely useful starting point for learning about social issues. But a lot of these one-and-done posts, like ones with the slogan “Yellow Peril Supports Black Power,” make blanket statements that ignore the nuances that make the AAPI experience so difficult to unpack. While many people—myself included—first looked to the phrase as a symbol of Black and Asian solidarity, more information came to light about the slogan’s complicated history. In the ’60s, “Yellow Peril Supports Black Power” had two primary purposes: Reclaiming “yellow peril” as a derogatory phrase against Chinese laborers in the 1800s, and showing support for the Black community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880454\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril.jpg\" alt=\"Asian American demonstrators rally for Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton's release from prison in 1969.\" width=\"582\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril.jpg 582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril-160x197.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asian American demonstrators rally for Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton’s release from prison in 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roz Payne's Newsreel archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But using the term today becomes more complicated after learning that Richard Aoki—one of the people who popularized the phrase at a rally for Huey Newton, and the only Asian American to hold a leadership role in the Black Panther Party—was revealed to be an FBI informant in 2012. Many activists today also take issue with the term, pointing out that the term “yellow peril”\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/history-behind-yellow-peril-supports-black-power-why-some-find-n1228776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reduces the Asian American experience exclusively to East Asians \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">while mistakenly equating Black and Asian struggles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The “model minority myth” circulated by white journalists and politicians in the ’60s—which characterizes Asian Americans as a monolithic, law-abiding group that achieved success in America because of their cultural values—is another example of a flawed narrative to unpack. At a high level, we as a community understand how the “model minority myth” hurts us: It reduces the cultural and socioeconomic diversity of Asian and Pacific Islander subgroups to one and divides us from other minorities, like Black and Latinx groups. But deeper interrogation of the myth’s history shows just how deeply its stereotypes and principles have influenced the AAPI community today. \u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the mid-1800s, after the Western states were required to enter the Union as free “non-slave” states, white elites desired a cheap and plentiful labor source. In order to position poor Chinese immigrants as these ideal laborers, white elites overtly constructed an image of Asian identity in America from 1850-1965 that deemed Asians “superior” to Black people and “inferior” to whites. But perhaps most importantly, as Claire J. Kim describes in “\u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032329299027001005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans\u003c/a>,” newspapers like the San Francisco \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daily Alta\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and sociologists like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Mississippi-Chinese-Between-Black-Second/dp/0881333123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Loewen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> alike stressed how great and \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">apolitical\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Asians were due to their lack of ability to vote. [aside postid='arts_13880441']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout that century, white lawmakers \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://sites.middlebury.edu/gsfswhitepeople/files/2016/09/alcoff.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">oscillated between qualifying Asians as “Black” or “non-Black”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in order to exert power over both groups. And all the while, white elites specifically created stereotypes around Asians as being successful \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">because\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of their lack of political interest and apathy around social justice—a direct juxtaposition to Black communities fighting for civil rights.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For me, Kim’s analysis concretely shows how Asian communities have been routinely pitted against Black communities. It gives context to the behavior of Asians Americans—such as their unwillingness to speak up in terms of social justice—and helps us understand both the privilege we as AAPI folks have due to our proximity to whiteness as well as the ways we have been disenfranchised.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This kind of understanding is crucial to breaking down why we as Asian Americans have appealed to whiteness for so long. Analyzing these historical moments allows us to reject the racial position whites have defined for us and stand in a place of solidarity with other communities of color in the fight for liberation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Engage with Your Peers, Family and Community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sharing our knowledge of systemic racism—and its impact on Asian Americans—with those in our communities is absolutely vital to making meaningful change. While discourse on social media can be cathartic, it also often feels like an echo chamber. Taking the time to speak to those who don’t share your views can instead inspire growth in both parties.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most young AAPI folks run into issues when speaking to our families: language barriers, sensational mainstream media, and lack of awareness around race dynamics in America often turn these conversations into moments of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/quvnxn/status/1267208672502923265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">conflict and frustration\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_7sAwRnQeEBpJY26h1tlwoIcib54jqNYfNDCps5_dSY/mobilebasic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Numerous translations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have been created to help folks overcome language barriers around the Black Lives Matter movement. Some AAPI folks have found success in framing the systemic racism Black communities face through \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://timetosaygoodbyepod.substack.com/p/about-those-letters-to-my-asian-parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">historical, international lens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Others \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825466/this-is-a-fight-for-everyone-asian-parents-and-black-lives-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">draw parallels between discrimination against Asians\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to build understanding. I worked with a friend to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QRX5WJbnUp-zAogsVnm-UGZkBRGB4xbFmVV3JoIsQ4I/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">create a guide\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to help anticipate common rebuttals Asian immigrant families give in these discussions. [aside postid='arts_13881942']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Older Asian generations aren’t the only ones we should be engaging in conversation around anti-Blackness, too: Benjamin Hung, a 28-year-old graduate of a high school I attended freshman year, was arrested after witnesses identified him as the person who hit \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2020/05/31/driver-seen-speeding-away-from-demonstration-with-protester-on-hood-in-pasadena-arrested/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a protester with his car in May\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. I’m not sure if speaking to Hung one time would have changed what happened, but I do think that continued conversations over the years would have helped.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, understanding creates change. And if enough people in our community understand how white supremacy has hurt us all, the more difference we as Asian Americans will make.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Show Up In Your Actions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dismantling structures that have been around for centuries takes time—but that doesn’t mean there aren’t small actions you can do every single day: \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Donate\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to mutual aid funds, Black individuals, and organizations dedicated to the long-term advancement of BIPOC. Buy from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.beyonce.com/black-parade-route/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black-owned businesses\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Share educational resources. Attend protests. Read Angela Davis, Audre Lorde and other Black revolutionary authors. Learn about the history of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/black-and-asian-feminist-solidarities-a-reading-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">feminist solidarity between Black and Asian communities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Call out microaggressions every time they happen. Push for more Black leadership in your workplace. Use your privilege and your voice to consistently advocate for Black lives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s also the inner, arguably more difficult work that comes with showing up too—being open to critique. Listening. Dismantling the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/noname/status/1275067838403772416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">white supremacist in our heads\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Finding ways to educate in a constructive manner, without tearing others down or making them feel guilty. Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of discourse around performative allyship that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgudAgDD4E/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">criticizes Asian Americans\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for a lot of the AAPI work circulating on social media. These critiques make some valid points, such as how we should de-center Asian voices, stop virtue signaling and move past guilt to act from a place of true solidarity. But at the end of the day, we’re all at different levels of awareness. [aside postid='arts_13881399']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re all at different points on the journey to gain the understanding we need to dismantle white supremacy. As long as we keep learning, showing support and trying to create change, that’s what matters.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part of the work is realizing that, and understanding that this is a pivotal moment for us as Asian Americans to come together and expose this system for what it is—so that we can finally break it down for good.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over four weeks since a police officer killed George Floyd on video in Minneapolis, a nationwide reckoning with anti-Black racism is showing no signs of slowing. In the streets, protestors have participated in demonstrations of all sizes, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822771/bay-area-george-floyd-protests-police-violence-curfew-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a student-led march\u003c/a> of over 10,000 in San Francisco and 15,000 people \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/fifteen-thousand-marched-in-brooklyn-for-black-trans-lives.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">marching for Black trans lives\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in New York. Online, people have created and shared innumerable resources on anti-racist action and how to break down anti-Blackness in non-Black communities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This conversation has been especially prevalent in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community—for whom (now fired) police officer Tou Thao’s role in Floyd’s death exposed the deep-rooted ways Asians and Pacific Islanders have benefited from and contributed to systemic racism in America. For much of the last month, there’s been an uncharacteristic immediacy in the AAPI community to share content around \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBg1jYvjnT9/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">dismantling the “model minority myth”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and talks of returning to the Asian-Black solidarity of the 1960s. But in reality, these calls to action only scratch the surface of the long history of Asian identity in America. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To truly create sustained, long-term change for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) in America, we as Asian Americans must go deeper: We must understand our own racial positioning in this country and deconstruct our desire to assimilate into whiteness. We must keep having conversations with family members who lack awareness or carry racist ideals. And, finally, we must recognize that we are all on our own unique journey to solidarity—and that we must work together to create the change we all want to see.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do Research Beyond Social Media\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Social media can be an extremely useful starting point for learning about social issues. But a lot of these one-and-done posts, like ones with the slogan “Yellow Peril Supports Black Power,” make blanket statements that ignore the nuances that make the AAPI experience so difficult to unpack. While many people—myself included—first looked to the phrase as a symbol of Black and Asian solidarity, more information came to light about the slogan’s complicated history. In the ’60s, “Yellow Peril Supports Black Power” had two primary purposes: Reclaiming “yellow peril” as a derogatory phrase against Chinese laborers in the 1800s, and showing support for the Black community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880454\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril.jpg\" alt=\"Asian American demonstrators rally for Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton's release from prison in 1969.\" width=\"582\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril.jpg 582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril-160x197.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asian American demonstrators rally for Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton’s release from prison in 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roz Payne's Newsreel archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But using the term today becomes more complicated after learning that Richard Aoki—one of the people who popularized the phrase at a rally for Huey Newton, and the only Asian American to hold a leadership role in the Black Panther Party—was revealed to be an FBI informant in 2012. Many activists today also take issue with the term, pointing out that the term “yellow peril”\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/history-behind-yellow-peril-supports-black-power-why-some-find-n1228776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reduces the Asian American experience exclusively to East Asians \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">while mistakenly equating Black and Asian struggles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The “model minority myth” circulated by white journalists and politicians in the ’60s—which characterizes Asian Americans as a monolithic, law-abiding group that achieved success in America because of their cultural values—is another example of a flawed narrative to unpack. At a high level, we as a community understand how the “model minority myth” hurts us: It reduces the cultural and socioeconomic diversity of Asian and Pacific Islander subgroups to one and divides us from other minorities, like Black and Latinx groups. But deeper interrogation of the myth’s history shows just how deeply its stereotypes and principles have influenced the AAPI community today. \u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Sometimes the energy of a movement looks like the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LinaBlanco/status/1274059418770927616\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">mass mobilization of people marching towards a common goal\u003c/a>, and sometimes it’s hundreds of square feet of painted plywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, as protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began in downtown Oakland, businesses covered their storefronts with plywood, inadvertently creating surfaces primed for messages of liberation and solidarity. In the days that followed, artists and volunteers lined the sidewalks with buckets and spray cans of paint, putting up Cornel West quotes, Black Power imagery and, over and over again, the names of those killed by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost as soon as these large-scale murals went up, people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/is_a_lau/status/1270374072166178817\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">began asking\u003c/a> how the ephemeral pieces of public art could be preserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1270021040312221696\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The consensus is that this is an important time,” says Randolph Belle, spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackculturalzone.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Black Cultural Zone\u003c/a>, a coalition of Black residents, leaders and organizers working to keep Black culture and people in East Oakland. “The movement is what we’re most concerned with. But the artwork is obviously a result of the protests, and the protests are a result of the historical injustices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Cultural Zone, \u003ca href=\"https://bettiono.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Betti Ono Gallery\u003c/a>, and other Black-led arts organizations, with support from ally organizations like the Oakland Museum and Oakland Art Murmur, are now attempting to bring some order to the preservation of murals that emerged spontaneously and without centralized coordination. The Black Cultural Zone has launched an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwvM8ZV7Ln2CwiPtCyywTaPzE0xwTw2jXDB9947Z1rbLj1lw/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online form\u003c/a> to help identify artists and artworks, which business owners or landlords can use to let the group know if they’re planning to remove a mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Endeavors, a project affiliated with Oakland’s Good Mother Gallery, has simultaneously created \u003ca href=\"https://www.endeavors-oakland.com/home-copy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an online gallery\u003c/a> of mural documentation, also hosts a form which promises to notify artists when their boards are removed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist unknown. \u003ccite>(Cianni Jackson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, certain questions linger: Should pieces go back to the artists, stay with the businesses, go into archival storage, or remain on view at another public location?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Museum of California Director Lori Fogarty underscores Belle’s point about focusing on the movement, first and foremost, over the murals. Though the institution was on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Bethpikegirl/status/1270023479228686342\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many minds\u003c/a> as a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OKcouncil/status/1270033041319026688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">possible home\u003c/a> for the murals, Fogarty says the museum isn’t yet looking to accession artwork or schedule an exhibition. Instead, OMCA is providing logistical support to the preservation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black-led organizations and artists need to be at the forefront,” Fogarty says. “It is a paradigm shift we need to acknowledge and honor at every step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curator and arts organizer \u003ca href=\"https://artistasfirstrespondercom.godaddysites.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ashara Ekundayo\u003c/a> watched the murals go up, visiting the downtown gallery every day. She says early on her conversations with artists raised red flags about the challenges of documenting and preserving the murals. “What alarmed me was that very few of the artists had thought about the importance and value of their work, and what could happen to it without them knowing and being credited or compensated,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noticed racial and cultural dynamics playing out in the murals: white artists were being commissioned to write “Black Lives Matter” on boarded-up storefronts and Black artists were not being paid for their work. Not acknowledging the artwork as valuable, particularly the work of Black artists, Ekundayo says, “will continue to perpetuate this idea that artists will make art for free and that we can disrespect them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CBygQVZhC1v/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the Black Cultural Zone specifically, we really wanted to be documenters of the documentation,” Belle says. “We don’t want to own a movement, but it is important that a Black voice holds this conversation. As people are saying that this feels different, we’ve got to make sure it \u003ci>is\u003c/i> different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13881529']In this vein, Betti Ono Gallery is hosting a conversation on Thursday, June 25, for Black artists and community members to collectively decide how to honor, preserve and protect the art. Possible outcomes Belle lists off include reinstallation of the murals in a lot in East Oakland, a spot the Black Cultural Zone currently uses as a distribution point for hot meals, produce and other supplies. Or, he says, “Some of the panels could be used to build something semi-permanent.” An in-depth immersive exhibition incorporating video footage of the murals, or something similar, could take place several years down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no interest in nor would we support privatizing this art other than in the hands of the artists and support of our Black community,” the Black Cultural Zone writes in the description for Thursday’s event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as discussions about how to collect and preserve the murals continue, many of the artworks are already coming down—and only some of their destinations are known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13868732/cece-carpio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cece Carpio\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.trustyourstruggle.com/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trust Your Struggle Collective\u003c/a> painted three murals in downtown Oakland. “We just went forward and protested the way we knew how, which is to paint up the streets,” she says. They weren’t thinking, at the time, about the future of their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CBCYs9fhTF0/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those murals—featuring five raised hands and fists and the text “We Got Us” over the boarded-up doors of a Chase bank—became the backdrop for an altar to those killed by police violence. When workers later arrived with the task of removing the plywood to create an entrance to the building, they refused to dismantle the altar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw our crew name and made the call to make sure this is preserved,” Carpio says. “It was very lucky and fortunate that it was within the community of folks.” Carpio was able to call her friends to move the altar, and the workers delivered the plywood boards directly to her own Oakland backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other muralists say they too thought only passingly about the future of their murals as they worked to get them up. Estella Tse and Sofia Sharpe, who both grew up in Oakland, painted a mural in honor of Breonna Taylor on June 5—what would have been her 27th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her name was kind of getting swept in between larger events happening around her, and she wasn’t getting a lot of the recognition for the justice she deserved,” Sharpe says of the impulse behind their painting. Only one of the three officers who shot Taylor has been fired; the other two have been placed on administrative reassignment, and none have been charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mural in honor of Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday, painted by Sofia Sharpe and Estella Tse. \u003ccite>(Cianni Jackson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sharpe echoes the Black Cultural Zone’s desire to place the murals within the context of the movement for racial justice. “It’s not just about murals, but about everything that is happening and has led up to it and where it’s going from there,” Sharpe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Objects can tell powerful stories, which is why conversations about how to preserve and honor items related to the Black Lives Matter movement and the latest uprisings are happening at both the grassroots community level and in national organizations. Coalition building and the centering of Black voices is key: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History and the Anacostia Community Museum \u003ca href=\"https://nmaahc.si.edu/about/news/statement-efforts-collect-objects-lafayette-square\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced\u003c/a> a collective effort to document and preserve “expressions of protest and hope” from Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You never know what stories artifacts and objects will tell,” Fogarty says, pointing to architectural fragments exhibited in OMCA’s \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/exhibit/all-power-people-black-panthers-50\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, testaments to the physical destruction of the Black community. While it’s difficult to know exactly which objects will speak most loudly a half century from now, the mistakes of the past can be illuminating. “We’re very mindful of what the museum was not collecting in 1968,” Fogarty says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Tse and Sharpe, whether or not their own work is preserved is less important to them than the messages the murals contain, and how the desire to document those messages illustrates art’s place in social movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can see from this how art heals, there is an impact, there is a purpose for art,” Tse says. Citing the difficult and long process of going through official channels to create public art, she adds, “I just hope there’s more opportunities for artists to make art like this in very challenging times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpio agrees: “I feel like this is one way to mark this moment and is also another way of really showing that what artists can contribute to a movement, and how we can envision a different future than what we normally have lived, prior to the pandemic and prior to the uprising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In this vein, Betti Ono Gallery is hosting a conversation on Thursday, June 25, for Black artists and community members to collectively decide how to honor, preserve and protect the art. Possible outcomes Belle lists off include reinstallation of the murals in a lot in East Oakland, a spot the Black Cultural Zone currently uses as a distribution point for hot meals, produce and other supplies. Or, he says, “Some of the panels could be used to build something semi-permanent.” An in-depth immersive exhibition incorporating video footage of the murals, or something similar, could take place several years down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no interest in nor would we support privatizing this art other than in the hands of the artists and support of our Black community,” the Black Cultural Zone writes in the description for Thursday’s event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as discussions about how to collect and preserve the murals continue, many of the artworks are already coming down—and only some of their destinations are known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13868732/cece-carpio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cece Carpio\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.trustyourstruggle.com/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trust Your Struggle Collective\u003c/a> painted three murals in downtown Oakland. “We just went forward and protested the way we knew how, which is to paint up the streets,” she says. They weren’t thinking, at the time, about the future of their work.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of those murals—featuring five raised hands and fists and the text “We Got Us” over the boarded-up doors of a Chase bank—became the backdrop for an altar to those killed by police violence. When workers later arrived with the task of removing the plywood to create an entrance to the building, they refused to dismantle the altar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw our crew name and made the call to make sure this is preserved,” Carpio says. “It was very lucky and fortunate that it was within the community of folks.” Carpio was able to call her friends to move the altar, and the workers delivered the plywood boards directly to her own Oakland backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other muralists say they too thought only passingly about the future of their murals as they worked to get them up. Estella Tse and Sofia Sharpe, who both grew up in Oakland, painted a mural in honor of Breonna Taylor on June 5—what would have been her 27th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her name was kind of getting swept in between larger events happening around her, and she wasn’t getting a lot of the recognition for the justice she deserved,” Sharpe says of the impulse behind their painting. Only one of the three officers who shot Taylor has been fired; the other two have been placed on administrative reassignment, and none have been charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mural in honor of Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday, painted by Sofia Sharpe and Estella Tse. \u003ccite>(Cianni Jackson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sharpe echoes the Black Cultural Zone’s desire to place the murals within the context of the movement for racial justice. “It’s not just about murals, but about everything that is happening and has led up to it and where it’s going from there,” Sharpe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Objects can tell powerful stories, which is why conversations about how to preserve and honor items related to the Black Lives Matter movement and the latest uprisings are happening at both the grassroots community level and in national organizations. Coalition building and the centering of Black voices is key: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History and the Anacostia Community Museum \u003ca href=\"https://nmaahc.si.edu/about/news/statement-efforts-collect-objects-lafayette-square\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced\u003c/a> a collective effort to document and preserve “expressions of protest and hope” from Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You never know what stories artifacts and objects will tell,” Fogarty says, pointing to architectural fragments exhibited in OMCA’s \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/exhibit/all-power-people-black-panthers-50\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, testaments to the physical destruction of the Black community. While it’s difficult to know exactly which objects will speak most loudly a half century from now, the mistakes of the past can be illuminating. “We’re very mindful of what the museum was not collecting in 1968,” Fogarty says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Tse and Sharpe, whether or not their own work is preserved is less important to them than the messages the murals contain, and how the desire to document those messages illustrates art’s place in social movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can see from this how art heals, there is an impact, there is a purpose for art,” Tse says. Citing the difficult and long process of going through official channels to create public art, she adds, “I just hope there’s more opportunities for artists to make art like this in very challenging times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpio agrees: “I feel like this is one way to mark this moment and is also another way of really showing that what artists can contribute to a movement, and how we can envision a different future than what we normally have lived, prior to the pandemic and prior to the uprising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A week before Trump held his controversial campaign rally in Tulsa was when Viviana Dark, a K-pop fan from Wisconsin (who has requested pseudonymity over concerns of online harassment), first heard of plans to “sabotage” the event. Users on TikTok, the exceptionally popular social-video platform, were urging others to reserve tickets to the rally, with no intention of actually going. “You know how a TikTok Challenge happens? It was kind of like that. ‘Everybody go do this!’ And it spread like wildfire,” Dark, 19 years old, tells NPR Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She signed up for two seats, received a confirmation email from the Trump campaign—”I’m counting on my loyal supporters like you”—and never showed up to the rally, which drew just \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881313605/trump-crowd-size-underwhelms-campaign-blames-protesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a few thousand\u003c/a> supporters to the 19,000-seat auditorium on June 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/21/tiktok-kpop-trump-tulsa-rally/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not clear\u003c/a> how much TikTok teens and K-pop fans should be credited for the rally’s disappointing turnout; Trump’s campaign originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/trump-tulsa-rally-coronavirus-calls-for-cancellation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed\u003c/a> it received more than a million requests for tickets. A stage prepared for overflow was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1274481380836114433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">never used\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dark, who supports the girl groups TWICE and GWSN, is no stranger to political activism in coordination with her K-pop community. She has a Twitter group chat with fellow idol fans from all over the world, where they exchange info about stars, petitions and hashtag movements. To “clog up” the platform, she tweeted #WhiteLivesMatter and #KeepAmericaGreat hashtags, coupled with irrelevant fancams of her favorite stars, as a way of diluting the usefulness and relevance of the tags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m Black before I’m a K-pop stan,” she says. “The main point of why we were fighting was for the Black Lives Matter cause, not to get recognized [as K-pop fans].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting recognized they are, as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-04/k-pop-fans-maestros-of-social-media-bring-their-powers-to-bear-on-blacklivesmatter-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maestros of social media\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5851211/kpop-bts-black-lives-matter-social-media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an unexpected ally\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.adobomagazine.com/digital-news/digital-dont-anger-the-k-pop-fans-k-pop-community-invades-racist-hashtags/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unlikely heroes\u003c/a>.” Earlier this month, fans of BTS matched the boy band’s $1 million Black Lives Matter donation in roughly a day. Others are credited with flooding the iWatch Dallas app \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/kpop-trump-tulsa-rally-hashtags-fancams-donations-activism-online-stan-2020-6#in-late-may-some-k-pop-fans-tried-to-stop-fandom-hashtags-from-trending-out-of-respect-for-blacklivesmatter-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with fancams\u003c/a> (and sinking its App Store \u003ca href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iwatch-dallas/id1482321757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranking\u003c/a>), after the Dallas police asked people to report “illegal activity” from the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I’d see the day where K-pop stans are defeating the police,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/blom_dot_com/status/1267252731959554050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read\u003c/a> one tweet that received over 4,000 likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is this so surprising? If you know the people in the K-pop fandom, this [political activism] seems natural,” says Lee Jeeheng, a cultural studies scholar and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/BTS-ARMY-Culture-Lee-Jeeheng-ebook/dp/B083NJNNPR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>BTS and ARMY Culture\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a book analyzing the fandom of the extremely popular group. “K-pop fandom is a digital tribe. Fans have been trained to mobilize quickly. They already have the infrastructure; when someone says, \u003cem>‘Go here!\u003c/em>‘ everybody can run towards the target.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"K-pop fans in Central Park on May 15, 2019 in New York.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">K-pop fans in Central Park on May 15, 2019 in New York. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past, fans have \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/magic_breakfast/status/1222920159851094018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donated to a London charity\u003c/a> to fund over 35,000 meals, reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/chilean-government-blames-k-pop-recent-protests-1479151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protested against\u003c/a> the Chilean government in 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hyunsuinseoul/status/1268520597853581312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised awareness\u003c/a> about the need for safer roads in Bangladesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This activism, while not practiced by every K-pop fan, has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.koreaexpose.com/fascinating-world-k-pop-fandom-culture/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long history\u003c/a>. In South Korea, organized music fandoms \u003ca href=\"https://www.reportshop.co.kr/social/102427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">began appearing\u003c/a> in the 1980s and ’90s. Fan philanthropy, now common in Korea beyond pop music, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201812081756208010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has its roots\u003c/a> in the early 2000s. Fans of the “first-generation” idol band Shinhwa, which debuted in 1998 and is still active, are credited with starting the “fan rice” trend in 2007, sending thousands of kilograms of rice to charity. Other fandoms \u003ca href=\"https://www.soompi.com/article/837751wpp/fans-donate-to-deaf-children-for-infinites-hoyas-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have funded\u003c/a> cochlear implants for deaf children and more recently, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wowtv.co.kr/NewsCenter/News/Read?articleId=A202006110079&t=NN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within and across different fandoms, political awareness is shared through loose online networks on Twitter, Instagram, fan cafes, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scholar Lee, a BTS fan, remembers one instance: In 2018, BTS member Jimin wore \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46147777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a shirt\u003c/a> depicting the U.S atomic bombing of Japan, after which fans became embroiled in contentious debates about Western imperialism and Japan’s atrocities during WWII, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/11/13/563838610/comfort-woman-memorial-statues-a-thorn-in-japans-side-now-sit-on-korean-buses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually enslaving women\u003c/a> for its military. Multilingual fans furiously translated on Twitter, including Lee. “Fans from Southeast Asia started talking about their grandmothers who were sexually enslaved,” she recalls. “It was an incredible history lesson. It was a really moving experience. I witnessed diversity and minority representation in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Worldwide, K-pop is being consumed in the name of diversity politics,” \u003ca href=\"http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=202006082139025&code=960802#csidx183f27eda83c4abb96adce82d8be04b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says \u003c/a>Mimyo, the editor-in-chief of \u003ca href=\"http://idology.kr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Idology\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an online magazine specializing in K-pop idol music. “Most K-pop fans are already interested in diversity politics; combine this with K-pop fandom’s culture of collective action. That’s why K-pop’s global fandom is participating actively in social movements like Black Lives Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be a non-Korean K-pop fan is innately political, I dunno why anyone is still surprised that K-pop fans are political,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TamarWrites/status/1274531852829765632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted \u003c/a>Tamar Herman, a K-pop correspondent for \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman and Mimyo’s comments are part of a growing media \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/11/surprised-seeing-k-pop-fans-stand-up-black-lives-matter-you-shouldnt-be/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">narrative\u003c/a> highlighting K-pop fans’ political progressiveness. But the reality is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, there are plenty of fans like Dionne Saville, who don’t really engage in K-pop’s political activities. “K-pop is not at all an inherently political act for me. It’s just excellent music that crosses global boundaries. I enjoy the deeper cultural connection it brings,” Saville, a 47-year-old BTS fan in Yorkshire, U.K., tells NPR Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are more sinister issues. Ironically for a music industry seen as heralding diversity politics, with millions of POC fans worldwide, K-pop creators still face constant accusations of \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/kpop-stans-hashtags-fancams-whitelivesmatter-bts-matchamillion-army-donation-2020-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cultural appropriation\u003c/a> and racism, particularly against Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://popcrush.com/k-pop-scandals-international-blackface-racist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blackface\u003c/a>, though less common now, has brought plenty of A-list idols under fire. Artists also frequently stylize themselves after Black culture, and many cite Black music as a central influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Traditionally, K-pop has not been a space that has validated Black feelings about those choices,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/k-pop-stars-speaking-up-black-lives-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writes\u003c/a> Natasha Mulenga for \u003cem>Teen Vogue\u003c/em>, “despite the impact Blackness has had on an industry that was reported at $5.4 billion … in 2018.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the fandom, plenty of Black fans have voiced concerns about being \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/bts-fandom-needs-to-check-anti-blackness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gaslit\u003c/a> by other fans when bringing up racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels really hard to be a POC in K-pop,” says Dark. “When some fans try to talk about internal racism, or even cultural appropriation, it kind of gets pushed under the bed. People of color are shushed by other K-pop fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why, for Dark, some K-pop fans jumping in online to support the BLM movement feels hollow. “Some people’s gestures of ‘being an ally’ feels performative, like it’s just on a surface level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a K-pop fan causes me lots of drama and issues mentally, because of the racism. But I feel it’s almost worth it to have that connection to the world, to music, to all these different ideas. K-pop helps me learn about the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, many \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/International/pop-stars-part-black-lives-matter-movement/story?id=71131938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K-pop artists have spoken out\u003c/a> on Black Lives Matter—a rare sight, since unlike many of their fans, most artists refrain from making political statements in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.twitter.com/Haekoko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Haeryun Kang\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a freelance journalist based in Seoul and the creative director of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/videocusIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>videocusIN\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a media incubator.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A week before Trump held his controversial campaign rally in Tulsa was when Viviana Dark, a K-pop fan from Wisconsin (who has requested pseudonymity over concerns of online harassment), first heard of plans to “sabotage” the event. Users on TikTok, the exceptionally popular social-video platform, were urging others to reserve tickets to the rally, with no intention of actually going. “You know how a TikTok Challenge happens? It was kind of like that. ‘Everybody go do this!’ And it spread like wildfire,” Dark, 19 years old, tells NPR Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She signed up for two seats, received a confirmation email from the Trump campaign—”I’m counting on my loyal supporters like you”—and never showed up to the rally, which drew just \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881313605/trump-crowd-size-underwhelms-campaign-blames-protesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a few thousand\u003c/a> supporters to the 19,000-seat auditorium on June 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/21/tiktok-kpop-trump-tulsa-rally/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not clear\u003c/a> how much TikTok teens and K-pop fans should be credited for the rally’s disappointing turnout; Trump’s campaign originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/trump-tulsa-rally-coronavirus-calls-for-cancellation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed\u003c/a> it received more than a million requests for tickets. A stage prepared for overflow was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1274481380836114433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">never used\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dark, who supports the girl groups TWICE and GWSN, is no stranger to political activism in coordination with her K-pop community. She has a Twitter group chat with fellow idol fans from all over the world, where they exchange info about stars, petitions and hashtag movements. To “clog up” the platform, she tweeted #WhiteLivesMatter and #KeepAmericaGreat hashtags, coupled with irrelevant fancams of her favorite stars, as a way of diluting the usefulness and relevance of the tags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m Black before I’m a K-pop stan,” she says. “The main point of why we were fighting was for the Black Lives Matter cause, not to get recognized [as K-pop fans].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting recognized they are, as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-04/k-pop-fans-maestros-of-social-media-bring-their-powers-to-bear-on-blacklivesmatter-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maestros of social media\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5851211/kpop-bts-black-lives-matter-social-media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an unexpected ally\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.adobomagazine.com/digital-news/digital-dont-anger-the-k-pop-fans-k-pop-community-invades-racist-hashtags/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unlikely heroes\u003c/a>.” Earlier this month, fans of BTS matched the boy band’s $1 million Black Lives Matter donation in roughly a day. Others are credited with flooding the iWatch Dallas app \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/kpop-trump-tulsa-rally-hashtags-fancams-donations-activism-online-stan-2020-6#in-late-may-some-k-pop-fans-tried-to-stop-fandom-hashtags-from-trending-out-of-respect-for-blacklivesmatter-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with fancams\u003c/a> (and sinking its App Store \u003ca href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iwatch-dallas/id1482321757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranking\u003c/a>), after the Dallas police asked people to report “illegal activity” from the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I’d see the day where K-pop stans are defeating the police,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/blom_dot_com/status/1267252731959554050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read\u003c/a> one tweet that received over 4,000 likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is this so surprising? If you know the people in the K-pop fandom, this [political activism] seems natural,” says Lee Jeeheng, a cultural studies scholar and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/BTS-ARMY-Culture-Lee-Jeeheng-ebook/dp/B083NJNNPR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>BTS and ARMY Culture\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a book analyzing the fandom of the extremely popular group. “K-pop fandom is a digital tribe. Fans have been trained to mobilize quickly. They already have the infrastructure; when someone says, \u003cem>‘Go here!\u003c/em>‘ everybody can run towards the target.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"K-pop fans in Central Park on May 15, 2019 in New York.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">K-pop fans in Central Park on May 15, 2019 in New York. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past, fans have \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/magic_breakfast/status/1222920159851094018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donated to a London charity\u003c/a> to fund over 35,000 meals, reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/chilean-government-blames-k-pop-recent-protests-1479151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protested against\u003c/a> the Chilean government in 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hyunsuinseoul/status/1268520597853581312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised awareness\u003c/a> about the need for safer roads in Bangladesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This activism, while not practiced by every K-pop fan, has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.koreaexpose.com/fascinating-world-k-pop-fandom-culture/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long history\u003c/a>. In South Korea, organized music fandoms \u003ca href=\"https://www.reportshop.co.kr/social/102427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">began appearing\u003c/a> in the 1980s and ’90s. Fan philanthropy, now common in Korea beyond pop music, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201812081756208010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has its roots\u003c/a> in the early 2000s. Fans of the “first-generation” idol band Shinhwa, which debuted in 1998 and is still active, are credited with starting the “fan rice” trend in 2007, sending thousands of kilograms of rice to charity. Other fandoms \u003ca href=\"https://www.soompi.com/article/837751wpp/fans-donate-to-deaf-children-for-infinites-hoyas-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have funded\u003c/a> cochlear implants for deaf children and more recently, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wowtv.co.kr/NewsCenter/News/Read?articleId=A202006110079&t=NN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within and across different fandoms, political awareness is shared through loose online networks on Twitter, Instagram, fan cafes, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scholar Lee, a BTS fan, remembers one instance: In 2018, BTS member Jimin wore \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46147777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a shirt\u003c/a> depicting the U.S atomic bombing of Japan, after which fans became embroiled in contentious debates about Western imperialism and Japan’s atrocities during WWII, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/11/13/563838610/comfort-woman-memorial-statues-a-thorn-in-japans-side-now-sit-on-korean-buses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually enslaving women\u003c/a> for its military. Multilingual fans furiously translated on Twitter, including Lee. “Fans from Southeast Asia started talking about their grandmothers who were sexually enslaved,” she recalls. “It was an incredible history lesson. It was a really moving experience. I witnessed diversity and minority representation in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Worldwide, K-pop is being consumed in the name of diversity politics,” \u003ca href=\"http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=202006082139025&code=960802#csidx183f27eda83c4abb96adce82d8be04b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says \u003c/a>Mimyo, the editor-in-chief of \u003ca href=\"http://idology.kr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Idology\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an online magazine specializing in K-pop idol music. “Most K-pop fans are already interested in diversity politics; combine this with K-pop fandom’s culture of collective action. That’s why K-pop’s global fandom is participating actively in social movements like Black Lives Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be a non-Korean K-pop fan is innately political, I dunno why anyone is still surprised that K-pop fans are political,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TamarWrites/status/1274531852829765632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted \u003c/a>Tamar Herman, a K-pop correspondent for \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman and Mimyo’s comments are part of a growing media \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/11/surprised-seeing-k-pop-fans-stand-up-black-lives-matter-you-shouldnt-be/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">narrative\u003c/a> highlighting K-pop fans’ political progressiveness. But the reality is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, there are plenty of fans like Dionne Saville, who don’t really engage in K-pop’s political activities. “K-pop is not at all an inherently political act for me. It’s just excellent music that crosses global boundaries. I enjoy the deeper cultural connection it brings,” Saville, a 47-year-old BTS fan in Yorkshire, U.K., tells NPR Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are more sinister issues. Ironically for a music industry seen as heralding diversity politics, with millions of POC fans worldwide, K-pop creators still face constant accusations of \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/kpop-stans-hashtags-fancams-whitelivesmatter-bts-matchamillion-army-donation-2020-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cultural appropriation\u003c/a> and racism, particularly against Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://popcrush.com/k-pop-scandals-international-blackface-racist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blackface\u003c/a>, though less common now, has brought plenty of A-list idols under fire. Artists also frequently stylize themselves after Black culture, and many cite Black music as a central influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Traditionally, K-pop has not been a space that has validated Black feelings about those choices,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/k-pop-stars-speaking-up-black-lives-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writes\u003c/a> Natasha Mulenga for \u003cem>Teen Vogue\u003c/em>, “despite the impact Blackness has had on an industry that was reported at $5.4 billion … in 2018.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the fandom, plenty of Black fans have voiced concerns about being \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/bts-fandom-needs-to-check-anti-blackness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gaslit\u003c/a> by other fans when bringing up racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels really hard to be a POC in K-pop,” says Dark. “When some fans try to talk about internal racism, or even cultural appropriation, it kind of gets pushed under the bed. People of color are shushed by other K-pop fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why, for Dark, some K-pop fans jumping in online to support the BLM movement feels hollow. “Some people’s gestures of ‘being an ally’ feels performative, like it’s just on a surface level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a K-pop fan causes me lots of drama and issues mentally, because of the racism. But I feel it’s almost worth it to have that connection to the world, to music, to all these different ideas. K-pop helps me learn about the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, many \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/International/pop-stars-part-black-lives-matter-movement/story?id=71131938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K-pop artists have spoken out\u003c/a> on Black Lives Matter—a rare sight, since unlike many of their fans, most artists refrain from making political statements in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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