Lucky- Jason Mraz (feat Shannon Jiang)

Geek In The Pink - Jason Mraz (feat Paula Nguyen)

If You Stay - Joseph Vincent (cover)

Tomorrow will mark one month since Mizzou President Tim Wolfe's resignation. In the wake of this event, I was personally frustrated by one of the most salient feelings of being a "foreigner" I had ever experienced. For as an Asian American, when it comes to the daily battle for racial equity that is fought for within nearly every institution in this country, I feel as though I do not know how to speak the language of activism, I do not fully understand the culture of liberty, and I do not look like those on the front lines of change. 

Yet despite these insecurities, I have been humbled by the stories that my Asian brothers and sisters had shared with me these last several weeks. Many of us struggle to reconcile our sincere desires for change, with the seemingly impossible task of taking action and making our voices heard. Yet if we continually crumble under the fear of seeming irrelevant, our inaction will only validate what society has come to expect of us, and what we have come to expect of ourselves. We need to stop the narrative of the Model Minority, the selfish obsession with getting ahead in life, the passivity in the face of oppression, and most importantly the walls we built between us and everyone else. The truth that we are all called to defend right now is that Black Lives Matter.    

Bradley Suda

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