A couple weeks ago I showed you Anida Yoeu Ali’s 1700% Project video, which was accompanied by a performance and art installation. Well, last week it was defaced with a shitload of anti-Muslim caricatures…ARE WE IN 1804??? Anyway, I have responded via Change.org:

Sometimes while living in this post-racial utopian harmony — in which Chris Matthews can forget that Obama is black for an hour — I tend to assume racism resides just in America’s less cosmopolitan regions…you know, the towns where the History Channel shoots reality shows about snake-handlers.

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Asian Americans are often denied our place in history, especially those of us who are engaged in cultural art forms that take us off the beaten, mainstream path.  In the rare cases where we are remembered, we are seen as ‘also-rans,’ people whose sole purpose was to diversify a scene rather than help create and define it – or curious tokens whom were able to find a way to be successful despite our race.  Seldom are we seen or considered as a collective movement, or a group of people who have a shared history.

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