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Artist((Masterpiece)) A Japanese American woman is painting in her kimono, Steel Industry structures lurk behind pollution and sunlight and Rail road bridge; dark and volatile, Turner, Degas, Manet --magazine cover
Cultural Meld in Steel and Smoke
midst daily prayers and meditation dedicated to community healing from harmful narratives-- daily writing is all that remains. Without hope or glimmer that the system will implement inclusive change that includes long-term residents
Being a minority of minority becomes difficult to have any actual support.
When we look at the systemic unfairness, bulldozers emerge based on opinions and narratives rather than facts.
Unfairness against minority AAPI who are given incorrect or no information, seems to be a deliberate administrative gaslighting structure. We desire something wholesome, complete, and fair. Democracy rather than capitalism bent in unfair practices. Justice rather than silencing and retaliatory actions.
A system of overlapping positive change seems shadowed by long term systemic bias. They call it heritage-- falsely against those who have been here and watched the newcomers posture and act out of fantasy rather than reality.
We have been here for a lifetime, close to those who set the standards. Keeping us in their shadow as human social litimus.
We ask for fairness, they frame it as "bowing down" to the unworthy of speaking their language and English. It doesn't cease. And organizations take reports of how the harm goes without accountability. We need accountability of those who interact, and a buffer to preserve our human rights within these community bulldoZers.
Standing ground in places where those in the system feel justified with
Biased support. Art and music are a last resort since all other commutation is worn And distressed. Yet what we call beauty and inclusion needs support and protection both.