Model Minority: Bystander vs. Advocate

It’s been a month since George Floyd was murdered. Sure, police brutality against Black people isn’t in the headlines anymore, but as Non-Black People of Color our journey to unlearn, learn and be an advocate cannot stop. The systemic racism faced by Black people in Western societies, especially in the US, is a reality Black people live with EVERY DAY. So we have to be an ally, an advocate and continue our learning every day too, not only when police brutality is in the headlines.

In order to keep the conversation going in our South Asian community, we have created this episode to talk about how the Civil Rights Movement allowed the South Asian diaspora to exist in the US and by extension in Western Countries; the origins of and deconstructing the ‘model minority myth’; the roots of the anti-black sentiments in our South Asian community, and discuss what those sentiments are.