'A company’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team invited me to address their employees to mark Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. During the call, they silenced me,' writes Wajahat Ali.
I began my speech by sharing some lovely, helpful recommendations I’ve received since the 9-11 terror attacks. They include emails that demand I “go back” to where I came from, to which I respond, “The Bay Area? I’d love to if you could subsidize my rent.” I followed it up with another gem: folks telling me to “go f****a goat.” It’s always goats and camels for some reason.
These are two examples I use to highlight the exciting adventures of being a Muslim American son of Pakistani immigrants in this “heightened moment” that Black folks have been experiencing for over 400 years. “We’re living in a country where some parents are more comfortable with their kids getting shot at school than reading a book written by a Black woman,” I continued. In this “moment,”How do you get to reconciliation without truth? You can’t. You don’t. You won’t.
Asian Americans are still being blamed for COVID, because bigots, in addition to being cruel, are also dumb and think a virus that has killed over 1 million Americans has an ethnicitAfter saying all this, I asked: “How do you get to reconciliation without truth? You can’t. You don’t. You won’t.”In hindsight, the timing was utterly exquisite and couldn’t have been scripted better.
According to employees who messaged me, the company initially told them the meeting ended due to “technical difficulties.” I posted a Twitter thread of my unfortunate experience, which then forced them to admit they had maybe been too hasty in pulling the plug for fear of offending some people. They did, however, find time to send a stern message to my speaking agency asking me to delete my tweets. I refused.
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