South Asian Americans Must Do Better on the Political Divide

We, as the millennial and Gen Z generations of South Asian Americans, must do better. Many of us fail to speak up on these issues out of a fear of confrontation, but that lets those who perpetrate hatred and bigotry lead the conversation. We can choose to let our community stew in anger and its own personal identities, refuse to trust, and seek vengeance and bigotry, or we can join hands together across languages, religions, homelands and ethnicities to proclaim that the crimes and traumas of our past will not define our future. We can push for a system that enshrines individual human rights and justice as the bedrock of the South Asian American community.