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<\/a>For weeks I have been in awe of the organizers and writers \u2013 Rev. Osagyefo Sekou<\/a>, Jamala Rogers<\/a>, Malkia Cyril<\/a>, Ta-Nehesi Coates<\/a>, john a. powell<\/a>, Falguni A. Sheth<\/a>, and so many others \u2013 who have placed the situation in Ferguson into critical historical and political context. This despite persistent attempts by police, elected officials, and mainstream media to erase that context with vilifications of black political protest and black life. I write this post to express my solidarity and rage, and to offer a response to the disturbing question that I\u2019ve heard asked<\/a>, and that demands an answer: Does Ferguson matter to Asian Americans?<\/p>\n First and foremost, the murder of Mike Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson is causing profound grief at the violent loss of yet another black mother\u2019s child. The expression of that grief by the Brown family, and the pained words of solidarity from Sybrina Fulton<\/a>, the mother of Trayvon Martin, are necessary bedrocks for understanding the human toll that anti-black racism takes. What makes this a national political crisis is that Mike Brown\u2019s death was not an isolated incident. It was excruciatingly unexceptional \u2013 one more deadly outcome of white supremacy in a human rights crisis that spans cities<\/a>, nations, centuries.<\/p>\n The predictable and familiar response \u2013 mainstream media pondering whether Mike Brown deserved to die, the City of Ferguson sending in a militarized police force to occupy an already disenfranchised neighborhood, whites denying that this is about race, and the indictment of black rage rather than the indictment of the murdering police officer \u2013 these are the mechanics of how America normalizes black death.<\/p>\n That Wilson gunned down Mike Brown so close to the buried body of Dred Scott is a gut-wrenching reminder that the fight for the recognition of black humanity is centuries long, still raging, and yet unfinished. The only way to make sense of this is through the logic of anti-black racism, a logic that asks us to set aside our humanity.<\/p>\n In the words of black feminist writer Brittney Cooper:<\/p>\n The idea that we would show no rage as we accrete body upon body \u2013 Eric Garner, John Crawford, Mike Brown (and those are just our summer season casualties) \u2014 is the height of delusion. It betrays a stunning lack of empathy, a stunning refusal of people to grant the fact of black humanity, and in granting our humanity, granting us the right to the full range of emotions that come with being human\u2026<\/p>\n Nothing makes white people more uncomfortable than black anger. But nothing is more threatening to black people on a systemic level than white anger\u2026 We should sit up and pay attention to where this trail of black bodies leads us. They are a compass pointing us to a raging fire just beneath the surface of our national consciousness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I do not move through the world in the crosshairs of a policing system that has its roots in slave patrols<\/a>, or in a nation that has used me as an \u201cobject of fear<\/a>\u201d to justify state repression and public disinvestment from the infrastructure on which my community relies. I am not public enemy number one in the ongoing U.S. domestic war over power and resources that has systematically denied black humanity. Yet as an Asian American, black rage occupies an important and intimate place in my heart and mind for at least two reasons.<\/p>\n