Letter Campaign: Anti-Black Racism and Japanese Canadian

letter campaign: The campaign, which follows a similar effort in the United States, aims to create a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence and anti-blackness in Canada Asian diasporas, according to Metro News. The letter is meant to help Asians start having conversations within their own communities about anti-black racism, and specifically, about the anti-black racism that Asians are complicit in, said Ren Ito, a Japanese Canadian from Toronto and one of the organizers of the Canadian campaign. In light of the backlash against Black Lives Matter, the aftermath of Toronto Pride parade and recent police gun violence in the U.S., hundreds of Asian Canadians plan to launch a letter campaign this week reaching out to elders in their own communities. The reality, though, is that different Asian communities are shaped by race and racism in different ways. A similar letter effort by Asian Americans was spurred by the recent killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. And this means that different communities have different needs when it comes to starting conversations about anti-black racism or even about racism in general. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.