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What is There Left to Say?

By: A.X. Bueno

It's another day where victims families mourn and weep

All because another shooting that shouldn't have happened

A pretty much definite hate crime committed by a white man

Against people in a community that is too often fetishized or ignored

8 asian people were killed and victimized and now there are many more hurting and floored

All by that man in Atlanta who for whom excuses and benefits of the doubt are being made

While there are many asian people who are finally getting seen and feeling by the system, played

For they know why this happened, they've dealt with the reason for too many years

And yet there are those in power who'll pussyfoot around it and those who'll sooner side with their white peers

Over the victims of this tragedy who were out there living full happy lives

Till someone overly entitled and racist simply "had a bad day"

That's what the cops say, it was a porn addiction and a bad day that left him at the end of his rope

But most know better by now

Other people have bad days sometimes entire bad years and still fall down hates' slippery slope

Even if this mass shooter wasn't a racist, which he was let's make that clear

He'd still be a murderer committing a hate crime against women who were a majority of his victims

As well as just inspiring more fear

A fear that practically all people of color face in one way or another

That fear of getting hurt or killed cause some overzealous white guy with a gun seeing you as the other

You could say I'm overly generalizing or just exaggerating

But if you actually listen to the people affected by the racism and these murders you'll see it's all real, very familiar and aggravating

This is a story that's unfortunately all too familiar and has been played out before

The reason why, the perpetrator, the excuses, even who the victims are this has all been done

And sometimes it feels like things will always be this bad and tragedies like this will continue despite however loud the uproar

For the past year hate crimes against asians have surged and increased

And it took something like what happened yesterday to happen to get people to care

Three Asian businesses, massage parlors were attacked

And now there are eight people with lives brutally and unjustly taken that they will never get back

What's worse is that it's pretty likely things won't really change

The struggles of Asians will probably conveniently slip through the cracks

BIPOC voices will continue to be glossed over in favor of more comfortable and non challenging ones that don't talk back

I really, really would like to be wrong

But I've seen this macabre song and dance before and it's all so sickeningly wrong

Living in America shouldn't make asians and other people of color constantly afraid of attacks

Attacks caused by the racist, bigoted and entitled

I hope now at least we can examine and dismantle the harmful stereotypes

As well as the institutions that fuel and let the racism and hate slide

It doesn't and shouldn't matter if they were sex workers victim blaming is not a solution

There needs to be acknowledgement and at the very least attempted fixing of the problems asians face

When we do eventually fix those problems and give asians and all people of color for that matter the true respect and opportunity that has been earned and deserved

Then and only then can we properly stop bringing in and talking about race

Until then however for today and hopefully forever check up on and lift the voices of your asian friends

For right now they're probably terrified and hurt while they wait hopefully for justice and maybe even amends