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'Your Least Favorite Mixed Asians' gets real about multiracial identity

Social action August 15, 2016
In #YourLeastFavoriteMixedAsians, @dtwps brought light to the underlying issues and struggles Black Asians face on a daily basis.

Every time I read an article about only referring to half-whites, I remember Black Asians are .

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don't just consist of Blk/E.Asn either. Don't erase Black desis bc you don't know what we look like.

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When you discuss Asian issues as separate from Black ones, you erase and harm .

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I speak specifically on being a bc that's what I am but pls remember is for all w/o white parent.

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only get claimed when we're exceptional, we aren't part of the community - just our achievements.

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"you dont look asian""you dont look (other race)" is 1 thing i dont want me or my mixed asian friends to hear

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filipino folk love to hype up a mestizo/a but blackipinos/indigenous filipinos get no love, only slander ||

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As a Latina with Asian ancestry I could never be accepted

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bc growing up hapas and mestizos were beautiful and i was "nappy-headed" and "too dark"

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can't discuss BLM with their Asian parent b/c they say offensive b.s. despite marrying a black person.

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Learning frm how one person can suffer anti-black racism & anti Asian racism but asked to be down w/ both

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are queer, trans, disabled, autistic, neuroatypical, everything and ALL of it.

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