MINISODE: ATLANTA

This is our first Local Laundry minisode and we're starting in Atlanta. With heavy and very angry hearts, we discuss the latest act of white-male-supremacist-terrorism and murder in Atlanta last week and why we need to educate ourselves and watch our reactions to the news coming out of this latest incident of AAPI hate crimes. Then Katy teaches us about the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906. We've mentioned it before, and we will keep getting deeper into this framing of "protecting white women virtue" leading to horrific violence and crimes against minorities. This is one truly awful example of that nonsense. ​

To learn more about AAPI histories, check out these resources: 

• Asian American History 101 Podcast hosted by father-daughter team Gen and Ted Lai (this episode on the Model Minority Myth is a great place to start) 
• Children's booklist to combat Asian racism from Little Feminist
• The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
• Strangers From A Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki