Fight Anti-Blackness with our Asian Parents Featured Featured “You can never date or marry a Black person.” These words, or some version of them, may be familiar to you. They were spoken by my parents when they forbade me from attending a school formal with a Haitian American friend, and these words were repeated to my brother and myself throughout our young adult and adult life. Growing up in New York — one of the most diverse, yet highly segregated, metro areas in the United States — I heard fellow Asian Americans use racist stereotypes to not only justify that our communities were ...