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NARRATIVE PATHS JOURNAL July 10, 2020 Guest Column:
Wake-Up America! Part II
Healing Racism
by Dr. Kim McMillon, Professor & Author
Dr. Kim McMillon, author, historian, activist, over twenty years of experience producing theatre
The Conversation
- How do you become an ally to those experiencing racial oppression?
- The public has not protested the atrocities that have been taking place in our country, but yet during a pandemic, people are taking to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd, why?
- How do you believe we can change the world for the better?
- As a poet, how would you like to be remembered?
- What line or stanza of poetry best describes you?
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Author Teresa Jade LeYung says: The tagline in Dr. Kim McMillon’s poetathon is: “If not NOW, WHEN?” I believe that that mantra plus the ability to document incidents with our personal electronic devices (especially cellphones) plus the speed in which to broadcast content through social media add up to a World Town Crier galvanizing people to protest the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and other victims. Here we are, fighting a global enemy named Coronavirus – people old and young risking their lives to save lives – folks making sacrifices by staying home to reduce the spread of infection – friends and neighbors sharing resources . . . yet, all the while, the hideous monster named racial injustice looms across our past and present. What can I do after protesters have gone home? How do I confront apathy and denial? I pledge to get more training from www.ihollaback.org: “We’re on a mission to end harassment—in all its forms.” The folks at Hollaback! (in 16 countries) have developed new programs, including “Bystander Intervention to Stop Police-Sponsored Violence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment” and “Stand Up Against Street Harassment.” I pledge to not wait to read voting material right before elections but to routinely visit websites of my legislators to communicate to them what laws I want changed, so that I stand with fellow Americans to fully exercise our rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” http://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration
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Author Teresa Jade LeYung says: How can we change the world for the better? While I have no answers, questions weigh on me as a U.S. citizen.
- Education – “Why do zip codes influence how much money a child receives in public schools? Do ballot measures show this inequality?” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tale-two-zip-codes-covid-19-exposes-deep-disparities-u-n1227646
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- When the media brag about lowest unemployment rate, I want to know: “How many of these jobs actually pay a living wage?” “Who are selling and buying ‘cheap labor’ and where are the human beings toiling?”https://livingwage.mit.edu/articles and https://livingwage.mit.edu/articles/61-new-living-wage-data-for-now-available-on-the-tool and https://www.worldhunger.org/ and https://www.worldhunger.org/hunger-news/united-states/
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- When groups blame immigrants and migrant workers (all tax payers by the way) for “taking away” jobs, I ask “Why are we denying the fact that U.S. companies send millions of jobs overseas?” and “What happened to the companies who had urged us to be patriotic by buying products made in the U.S.A.?” https://www.thebalance.com/how-outsourcing-jobs-affects-the-u-s-economy-3306279
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- Why are we afraid to look at “ugly”?
- Abject Poverty https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/poverty/
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- Hate and Bigotry https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do
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- Modern day Slavery also known as Human Trafficking https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/partnerships/look-beneath-the-surface
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Do we have a chance of becoming our better selves? Yes! We can wake up! Perhaps if we continue asking lawmakers these and other questions, our united voices shall change the world for the better.
“Thank you, Dr. Kim McMillon, for giving us this forum to wake up in unity.”
Lines from Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Lecture on December 11, 1964 – “Each of these problems, while appearing to be separate and isolated, is inextricably bound to the other. I refer to racial injustice, poverty, and war.” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/lecture/
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James Baldwin’s arguments in the debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University (1965) “Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeoS41xe7w
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – quote from George Orwell’s book 1984.
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Jeffery Robinson’s lecture on August 24, 2017 “When Heritage = Hate: The Truth About the Confederacy in America” (full version) – What was the American civil war really fought about? Men. Women. Children. Chattel. Slaves. White Supremacy was the reality/truth. Who has been and are writing history books? What we can do to learn from our past and combat systemic racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOPGpE-sXh0 and https://www.aclu-wa.org/events/when-heritage-hate-truth-about-confederacy-america
https://www.ihollaback.org Hollaback! in 20 cities globally!
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https://www.standup-international.com/fr/fr Agissons ensemble contre le harcèlement de rue.
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https://www.standagainsthatred.org/ Stand Against Hate
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https://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/ Stop AAPI Hate
I wish you and everyone around you safety, kindness, excellent health, clear water, blue sky, delicious foods, and sweet laughter!
Bonne journée!
Sincerely,
Author and Theme Consultant Teresa Jade LeYung
“To help prevent spread of COVID-19, I wear face-covering AND keep at least 6-foot distance with people who don’t live with me. No blaming No shaming; I protect myself and everyone else.”
Teresa Jade LeYung, American naturalized citizen of Chinese ancestry, is a manuscript-theme consultant, author of Love Made Of Heart (archived at the San Francisco History Center), Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days, and Talking To My Dead Mom monologues, and, advocate for public libraries and public schools. Teresa speaks out and offers resources through her Blog: http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/
July 31, 2020
Thank you, Ms. Vanessa Miller of Hollaback!, for today’s excellent training.
In 2020, Hollaback! and L’Oréal Paris join forces to ensure everyone’s self-worth, leveraging Hollaback!’s 5 D’s methodology to help people safely intervene when they experience or witness harassment in public spaces.The goal of the Stand Up program is to train 1,000,000 people to become Upstanders before the end of 2021 and ultimately build a culture where street harassment is seen as unacceptable behavior.
STAND UP Against Street Harassment
In any language, we see what is happening and how we can STAND UP against harassment.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7J5N4qfflk
“Street harassment ends here. We see it happen, but uncomfortably look away. We feel the urge to speak up, but stay cautiously silent. We all want to do something about it, but don’t know what. Or worse, we end up thinking it’s ‘not a big deal.’ Street harassment is always a BIG deal. And now, we have what it takes to stand up to it. It’s always worth it.”
https://www.ihollaback.org/stand-street-harassment/
https://www.ihollaback.org in 20 cities globally!
https://www.ihollaback.org/harassmenttraining/
Watching this video … I clearly see that I don’t need to know a particular language (when I am traveling) to know how to take care of myself and also how to be an “Upstander” (instead of a helpless bystander) when confronted by street harassment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7J5N4qfflk
Agissons ensemble contre le harcèlement de rue | STAND UP | L’Oréal® Paris
81% des femmes en France déclarent avoir été victimes de harcèlement sexuel dans les lieux publics. Seulement 20% déclarent avoir été aidées par quelqu’un. Nous pouvons tous agir. Informez-vous et formez-vous sur http://standup-france.com
En partenariat avec Hollaback! et la Fondation des Femmes, L’Oréal Paris lance Stand Up: un mouvement voué à nous apprendre à tous et à toutes à réagir que l’on soit victimes ou témoins de harcèlement sexuel dans les lieux publics. — Abonnez-vous à notre chaîne YouTube pour en savoir davantage sur Stand Up : http://youtube.com/lorealparisfrance Retrouvez-nous sur les réseaux sociaux : Facebook : http://facebook.com/lorealparisfrance Twitter : http://twitter.com/@lorealparisfr Instagram : http://instagram.com/lorealparis Pinterest : http://pinterest.com/lorealparisfr Snapchat : @lorealparisfr
Thank you, Hollaback! and L’Oréal Paris, for showing us
how to “STAND UP Against Street Harassment”
Merci beaucoup Hollaback! et L’Oréal Paris!
Merci beaucoup mes amies!
I wish you and everyone around you safety, kindness, excellent health, clear water, blue sky, delicious foods, and sweet laughter!
Bonne journée!
Sincerely,
Author and Theme Consultant Teresa Jade LeYung
“To help prevent spread of COVID-19, I wear face-covering AND keep at least 6-foot distance with people who don’t live with me. No blaming No shaming; I protect myself and everyone else.”
Report a Hate Crime at:
- Stand Against Hate https://www.standagainsthatred.org/
- Stop AAPI Hate https://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/
- New Yorkers can email civil.rights@ag.ny.gov or the calling the hotline 1-800-771-7755
- New York City: If you believe you have been the victim of discrimination based on membership in a protected category, please call 311 and say, “human rights” or visit www.NYC.gov/HumanRights to report your experience. If you have been the victim of or witness to a hate crime call 911.
- You can contact Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for assistance with legal and social services at (1-844-966-4283)
Please tell ALL your friends. If you missed July 16, 2020 Racial Equity Series: Anti-Asian Racism in COVID-19, watch the video on OneRichmondSF facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OneRichmondSF/videos/2655505434723313
Inspiring Panelists began program after a 4 minute wait.
Panelists: Naomi Hui; Vivian Leung; Michelle Cusano; Jessica Ho; Cynthia Choi, Chinese for Affirmative Action; Sandra Lee Fewer, D1 Supervisor; Russell Jeung, Asian American Studies, SFSU.
Presented by The Richmond Neighborhood Center.
Thank you, panelists, for the education, resources and hope!
Thank you again, MaryT, for telling us about this valuable program.
Sincerely,
Theme Consultant and author Teresa Jade LeYung
July 16, 2020, 5:00pm-6:30pm PST
ZOOM pre-registration required
https://richmondsf.org/event/racial-equity-series-anti-asian-racism-in-covid-19/
Racial Equity Series: Anti-Asian Racism in COVID-19
Panelists:
Cynthia Choi, Chinese for Affirmative Action;
Sandra Lee Fewer, D1 Supervisor;
Russell Jeung, Asian American Studies, SFSU.
Presented by The Richmond Neighborhood Center, San Francisco, CA
- Stand Against Hate https://www.standagainsthatred.org/
- Stop AAPI Hate https://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/
- New Yorkers can email civil.rights@ag.ny.gov or the calling the hotline 1-800-771-7755
- New York City: If you believe you have been the victim of discrimination based on membership in a protected category, please call 311 and say, “human rights” or visit www.NYC.gov/HumanRights to report your experience. If you have been the victim of or witness to a hate crime call 911.
- You can contact Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for assistance with legal and social services at (1-844-966-4283)
Get more training from www.ihollaback.org: “We’re on a mission to end harassment—in all its forms.”
Bystander Intervention Training to STOP anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment.
The folks at Hollaback! (in 16 countries) have developed new programs, including “Bystander Intervention to Stop Police-Sponsored Violence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment” and “Stand Up Against Street Harassment”
Thank you, everyone!
Sincerely,
author Teresa Jade LeYung
Bystander Intervention Training to STOP anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment
June 3, 10, 18, 25, 2020
“This training gave me new tools to support someone experiencing discrimination. I had always thought my only option was to directly engage with the aggressor, which was terrifying to me. To know I have a lot of other tools I can use will be very helpful.” EM, Oregon State University
“I appreciate having clear and effective strategies that can be utilized immediately.” HNN, Bates Center for Purposeful Work
“Before this training, I doubt I would’ve intervened for fear of making things worse, but now I’m confident that I’m equipped with the skills necessary to diffuse any situation I may encounter.” BBB
- Wednesday, June 3rd at 2:00pm ET / 1:00pm CT / 12:00pm MT / 11:00am PT / 8:00am HST.
- Thursday, June 18th at 7:00pm ET / 6:00pm CT / 5:00pm MT / 4:00pm PT / 1:00pm HST.
- Thursday, June 25th at 4:00pm ET / 3:00pm CT / 2:00pm MT / 1:00pm PT / 10:00am HST.
Report a Hate Crime at:
- Stand Against Hate https://www.standagainsthatred.org/
- Stop AAPI Hate https://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/
- New Yorkers can email civil.rights@ag.ny.gov or the calling the hotline 1-800-771-7755
- New York City: If you believe you have been the victim of discrimination based on membership in a protected category, please call 311 and say, “human rights” or visit www.NYC.gov/HumanRights to report your experience. If you have been the victim of or witness to a hate crime call 911.
- You can contact Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for assistance with legal and social services at (1-844-966-4283)
I wish you and everyone around you safety, kindness, excellent health, clear water, blue sky, delicious eats, and sweet laughter! Bonne journée!
author Teresa Jade LeYung, Paris 2019, photo by author Mary E. Knippel