This episode is dedicated to the memory and power of the victims of white domestic terrorism in Atlanta, the survivors and their families as well as the victims and survivors of all forms of sinophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-sex work and anti-Asian xenophobia/ US imperialist violence against Asian bodies happening all around the globe. If you would like to join us in a moment of silence, fast forward to the 1:54:28. This episode is also dedicated to Stacey Park Milbern, one of the creators of the disability justice movement. We also dedicate this episode to the Seattle Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP). The transcript at 1:55:00 is from a livestream of a community vigil held in the victims' honor and in solidarity with Black and Indigenous sovereignty. Cash App: $mpopsea, Venmo: MPOP_SEA

Recommended Reading:

-Resisting State Violence by Dr. Joy James (Ericka reads an excerpt from that book in this episode)

-Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson

-Some Reasons For Chinese Exclusion: Meat v Rice, American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism (Author Unknown)

-Essay on Japanese American Beauty Pageants and Minstrel Shows during political imprisonment by the FDR administration during WWII by Malia McAndrews: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/536560/summary

-The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

-Search for articles on the history behind yellow peril movement and Richard Aoki, an FBI Informant who infiltrated the Black Panther Party in the 60s

-Note on Marxism: Engels' father owned a factory and Marx was white and didn’t understand that capitalism is always racialized like Cedric Robinson and Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore talk about - check the book out if you want, there are some goods in Marx’s Capital Illustrated by David Smith

-Lisa Simpson and Samaria Rice Official Statement: https://www.wearyourvoicemag.com/official-statement-from-samaria-rice-mother-of-tamir-rice-lisa-simpson-mother-of-richard-risher-and-the-collective/

How to Support Samaria and Lisa: Cashapp-$SamariaRice

Cashapp: $lisalee693

Support

Tamir Rice Foundation/Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center in Cleveland, OH

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)

Seattle Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP)

List of Black Owned Bookstores: https://nonamebooks.com/Bookstores

Zora's Daughters Podcast: https://zorasdaughters.com/

Music by Benjamin Earl Turner-Apathy Happy

Editors Note: Both Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel wore Blackface