Asian Americans and Standing Rock

​Our Asian American tapestry, diverse and beautiful as it is, is woven on a fabric of Native American dispossession. Our Chinese American elders who worked and died constructing the Transcontinental Railroad labored in service of white America’s vision of Manifest Destiny, a vision that necessitated the Trail of Tears. And our immigrant and refugee stories are too often co-opted in service of a 'nation of immigrants' narrative that erases this country’s founding pillars of slavery and genocide

 - 18 Million Rising
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