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them, he looks at them in their crumpled piles and says "we are not sick men." as a kid in the '80s, when i saw that, hoo, i felt it. i wasn't chinese. i had no idea of the history of japan and china, but as a black kid in america i understood the need to stand up to your oppressors. and just since the beginning i understand that all people's struggles are connected. it felt like me and bruce were the same. of course, he meant way more to asian americans than he meant to me. but bruce's fights onscreen were nothing compared to his fights offscreen, a fight for representation in media...

Quiet, you carry that energy with you, that burden. >> for sure, for sure. >> and then it just explodes somewhere else. it's something that kung fu also taught me, you have to let it out. you to let it go. >> i call it racism hot potato. people throw the racism to you, and often we're try thoelgd on to it. >> pow. >> no, no, no, that's yours, that's yours. >> this belongs to you. >> hot potato! racist hot potato! >> and to keep my cool during this game of racism hot potato, shifu is going to show me some meditation. good. use your body like a whip. just right here, go. >> mine does make that n...

>> come on, man? >> you used that new york talk. come on, man. i love the fact you put it back on them, you need to respect yourself. that is some classic redirect the energy. >> tai chi. tie chi. >> take your energy and throw back at you. >> kung fu, buddhism, the peace the most powerful weapon on the planet. >> i didn't grow up with this anti-asian sentiment. it made no sense to me. and there is a lot of cowardly people out there, and they think that people from the asian diaspora are easy target. once you kick somebody's grandmother or you spit on a woman holding a baby or you use a weapon ...