Join your Teach For America Network in Chattanooga to learn about the work that is being done to promote equity in the city by other community partners, and reflect on how we are best positioned to contribute given our unique identities.
Dear TFAmily,
Last week eight people, including six Asian women, were murdered at three spas in the Atlanta area. Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Sun Cha Kim, Yong Ae Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, and Daoyou Feng were killed in a senseless, racist, and misogynist attack that unfortunately was not an isolated incident.
Since the start of the pandemic, Anti-AAPI violence has surged, with over 3,800 attacks reported in the last 12 months alone, but we cannot talk about anti-Asian racism and xenophobia as if it is new and isolated, because it is not. Our country has a long history of targeting the AAPI community, and that racism has only been exacerbated by xenophobic rhetoric throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
To our AAPI colleagues and community, our Teach For America Nashville-Chattanooga team & network stands in solidarity with you and wants you to know we see you, are here for you, and reject any form of racism and hate against our communities.
We all have the opportunity to create a new era of justice and solidarity—if we choose to take action. We would like to share this piece written by Soukprida Phetmisy (she/they), who leads Teach For America’s national Asian American and Pacific Islander Alliances. Soukprida elevates ways that you can show up in solidarity with the AAPI community, with education, resources, and your voice.
I'd like to close with her words, which speak to the work we must all do in our pathway as antiracist educators and community members. We look forward as a team to doing this work alongside each of you.
"We must always include, within our anti-racism work, a critical understanding of anti-Asian racism, where it stems from, and how it persists in our lives and especially within our own institutions. And for us within AAPI communities, while we honor our pain and our rage and take the actions we need to heal, when we do call for this solidarity we cannot, in the same breath, call on the systems that continue to oppress all other BIPOC Communities.” -Soukprida Phetmisy
In solidarity together,
Rachel, Colby & Juan Pablo Alumni Leadership Team
Join your Teach For America Network in Chattanooga to learn about the work that is being done to promote equity in the city by other community partners, and reflect on how we are best positioned to contribute given our unique identities.
Date: Thursday, April 22th, 2021
Time: 6 PM EST
Learn more and register here.
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