Transcript: I was surrounded with black culture before I knew any black people.

Image: A young Asian girl, with pigtails and dressed casually, sitting in front of a television. Tina Turner emerges from the television, singing “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”

Transcript: The things that black people made were fetishized, consumed, and imitated by my community, as with the rest of the world.

Image: An Asian woman, smiling, with a permed “Afro” hairstyle.

Image: An Asian teenager, dressed in a white tank top and baggy shorts, rapping.

Transcript: And yet, I never felt like my community liked black people much.

Image: A Chinese family at dinner time. There are bowls of food on the table. There are two older women, an older man, and a younger girl. The elder people are saying “…her black boyfriend so poor,” “…all gang banger,” and “so lazy…”

Transcript: And even as we devour black music, black hair, black style(the aversion to dark skin itself is of course, far more historically complicated), there is still little love for black life.

Image: A tub of a beauty product — L’Oreal’s White Perfect. The tagline reads “New with Melanin Vanish!”

Transcript: To stand in solidarity now feels complicated. Sometimes, it’s easier to march in streets than to talk back to your elders.

Image: Stylish asian women dancing at a club, as cops arrest a black man in the background.

Transcript: And no level of love for hiphop and maybe far too much attention paid to Idris Elba’s abs, will ever mean that we get to understand black life.

Image: An older Japanese man, speaking to younger man, saying “Never forget the camps…”. Behind him, a black man is put in a chokehold, gasping “- can’t -”

Transcript: And even though we’ve been battered by history too…it’s not a contest.

Image: A 3rd place medal for the “Oppression Olympics”

Transcript: We can’t pretend we have all the same problems right now.

Image: An Asian woman, saying “Asian woman make, on average, 90% of what a white man does.”

Transcript: The commonly used statistic of 78% is the wage gap average for white women.

Image: A black woman, saying “Black women make 64%”

Transcript: Still, I feel like we’re pawns in a larger game, pitted against each other, to fight for crumbs. Instructed to hate in order to assimilate, to find acceptance in a world that never liked us much anyway. But, to undo our own prejudice means rewriting the history force taught upon us, to learn the other history that exists.

Image: A young Asian woman, looking sad. She is standing on top of a pile of black and brown people. Over her, also standing on the body pile, is a tall white man, dressed in a business suit. He says “Welcome to America.”

Transcript: Not just the history that marks us as allies, because allyship is not a birthright — but the history that makes us uncomfortable and complicit, because prejudice isn’t either.

Image: A portrait of activist Yuri Kochiyama paired with one of her famous quotes — “Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow’s world is yours to build.”

Image: An older “aunty” type Asian woman, beginning to say “Aiya — did you know her black boyfriend -”. She is interrupted by a young Asian woman saying “Actually, let’s talk about that.”

Transcript: And we can always start at home.