Why Asian Americans Have to Show Up for Black Lives

Justin Chae
8 min readJun 12, 2020

The cost to murder an Asian American in 1982 was $3,000. How African American Civil Rights leaders showed up for Asian American Civil Rights in the 80s and what today’s generation needs to carry forward.

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There was a time, not too long ago, that Asian and African Americans fought for each other, against each other, and for each other again. However, as the memory of those…

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Justin Chae

Justin writes about technology, programming, and general interest topics.