Cathy Ang

Cathy Ang Instagram – My heart is aching for the AAPI community, especially back home in the Bay Area. I wanted to share this post from @goldhouseco and @bingchen about the uptick in hate crimes: “I’ve been at a loss the past few days. I hate feeling like I can’t do anything but talk. I love how so many are amplifying the stories of Vicha Ratanapakdee, the Vietnamese American Community Center, Jeffery Fang’s children, Mrs. Duong, Noel Quintana, and more but am at a loss about “then what”? Being Asian and American sometimes feels like an impossible duality: between two nations, cultures, generations of correcting our elders and wondering if they were right, supporting your own and allying—it’s this undulative tug that any of us have yet to get right. I’ve had dozens of conversations over the weekend with friends, allies, leaders, news stations and too many are only speaking out of one side of their mouths publicly. They’re too scared to say the other. This isn’t one of those simple “just have courage” and the medicine goes down things. We are trying to balance our own lives with the lives of others—and we all know how we got to this rock and hard place. Persisting as a minority is a game of carrot and stick: affirming incentive and punitive correction, showing the world what’s possible and correcting it when it isn’t. I have supreme conviction that @GoldHouseCo is that carrot—from our full film system that makes box office history to reshape public opinion to our steady founder efforts to increase our commercial influence in C-Suites—but it’s not enough. It’s only half the battle. So I often wonder: where is the stick? I hate just talking but the best I have is:
-Stay aware through the incredible @NextShark, @Jackfrootx, @AsiansWithAttitudes, and many API icons who are speaking up
-Better and more accurate incident reporting
-Reporting that results in action instead of floating into the ether—whether it’s collaboration with local community groups and centers or legislatures
-Action that doesn’t vilify or further disenfranchise any other community
-Investment in new systems without the baggage of old ones that pitted us against each other in the first place” | Posted on 09/Feb/2021 22:27:38