Welcome back to eat your crust podcast.
I'm Crystal.
And I'm Jisoo.
If you haven't noticed, we actually took a break last week.
We wanted to take some time off to listen and also to learn about the Black Lives Matter movement.
The last episode that we released before our break was actually our conversation about how to reflect on racism within ourselves before we engage in conversations with the people around us.
And this week, we wanted to talk a little bit more about the movement, specifically some, like, positives and negatives that we've seen in the efforts of being an ally to the Black Lives Matter movement.
A lot of this has been happening within the asian american community, but I think this is also pretty applicable to people in general who are trying to be allies to the movement.
Yeah, and I think we definitely want to preface this by saying, by no means are we perfect allies.
By no means are we, like, experts on activism.
But as members of the asian american community and as active participants in the Black Lives Matter movement, we've actually seen a lot of criticisms pop up, and I think it's helped us kind of reflect on our personal methods, allyship, and I think it's helped us discover the most effective and maybe some of the less effective ways where we can continue to be a good ally.
Even after the whole social media buzz is over.
We can already see that some of the buzz has, you know, slowed down a little bit, but I don't think that means that, like, people aren't still educating themselves and taking time to learn.
So, like, at least one of my hopes for myself is that I can, you know, kind of ingrained these positives that we've learned in my day to day life.
So that way I can maintain some kind of, like, sustainable support.
So I guess we can kind of start off with some of the positives that we've seen in general.
I think one of the biggest and most common ways that people in the asian american community have been trying to help is by spreading information through different channels.
It's usually through social media, but also just with people, peers around them, maybe even coworkers, it's been cool to see people really actively share information that is helpful to their social network, and that.
Definitely extends to, you know, speaking up with family members, friend groups, as you mentioned, peers.
The fact that we are able to start these discussions and, like, have these conversations, rather than more commonly maybe, like, almost ignoring it, which I think is something that a lot of us might be guilty of, like, myself included, just avoiding that topic in general.