To whom do you feel indebted for your civil rights and citizenship status in America?

Your parents or your parents' parents? Or yourself?

Frankly, I had never considered this question until I came across Eileen Huang's critical letter urging the Chinese American community to confront their anti-Black racist statements and stereotypes.

In her words, "We owe them (referring to Africans Americans) everything."

In Season 5 True Colors: Episode 5 "We Owe Them", Eileen makes a case for Asians to acknowledge what she perceives as our racist attitude against Black people in America, and to begin difficult conversations with our parents' generation.

Eileen Huang is a creative writer, and a junior at Yale University.

Music used: One in a Billion Theme Song by Brad McCarthy Break Through by Pictures of the Floating World Inside the Moon by Stephan Seibart The Place I Called Home by Julie Maxwell As the Crow Flies by Axeltree Dreaming Days by Ketsa True Colors - a Season 5 Special Series - is about the color of one's character in a time of crisis.

In this 10-part podcast series, we have expanded our focus beyond Asians to include the African American experiences in Episode #1 and Episode #3.

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