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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...

>> asian food is definitely the greatest presence of representation for asian america. >> 245 word representation, what has it meant to you? >> i feel like representation just the beginning, but it's a very powerful beginning, because it's imagery and stories that help to tell us what's possible and to help us feel how we want to feel, even if our material reality doesn't match that. >> were there any asian american things in media that you were sort of focused on then that you look back and go that was all we had? you know what i'm saying? maybe now it doesn't look the same. >> i wasn't that ...