As long as there have been white people and black people and brown people in America, the slaughter of black and brown people has been used as a form of control. For centuries, on a population level, the racial majority has voted and lobbied to give agents of the state more power to act without sanction, to militarize, to kill. Functionally, this has enabled them to wage war on behalf of the majority of the public; to express hatred and fear and aspire to power through campaigns of terror and carnage.
Yellow people, if you wonder why black and brown people don’t just act like you, it’s because we’ve accepted abuse and injustice as fact. Yellow people, if you wonder why you aren’t targeted, it’s because we’ve rolled over like dogs in the name of peace and harmony. Yellow people, it’s time to stand up, stand out, and stand by our fellow brothers and sisters of color and stop being bystanders.