CNN United Shades of America July 7, 2024
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...
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