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(VidoAt this time, we'd like to highlight the Letter for Black Lives project, written by concerned Asian Americans. We're offering it to our community as a resource and not as an endorsement of either organization, Letters for Black Lives or Black Lives Matter (BLM). Just to be clear though, San Gabriel Valley API PFLAG does stand in solidarity with the Black community and against anti-Blackness. The letter is not meant to be a perfect document but as a starting point to have conversations, in-language, which is what America needs right now. Review the 30-page Conversations Guide. Then, choose your preferred language below:
Additional Asian languages (many are from the 2016 letter and not the 2020 letter due to availability):
A lot is happening right now with the COVID-19 pandemic effecting the world, hitting hardest in the US and the recent killing of George Floyd in Minnesota causing intense civil unrest across the US and abroad while we're all supposed to practice social distancing. While we're home, helping our families understand what's happening may be something we can do at this difficult time as we spend so much more time with close family. For API communities, that can be especially hard without in-language resources to support that conversation on how each community relates to the Black community. As mentioned, every API community has a different relationship with the Black community so we realize that any in-language translation from an English letter may land differently, including for the Korean community which has a specific history in the US with the Black community. Our hope is that by providing these resources to each community, no matter where they start, it will lead us to families that are better and that respects each others' values, no matter what our skin color may be. Your health and well-being is the top priority for our PFLAG chapter. With that in mind, we encourage everyone to participate during this time at the level that they feel comfortable at while staying safe, whatever that means for you. To continue the conversation, we encourage you to join us at our monthly virtual meetings on the Zoom video conferencing platform, as well. MONTHLY PFLAG SUPPORT MEETING ON ZOOM DATE & TIME: 4th Sunday of every month, 3 - 5 PM If you need help with family sooner than the next virtual meeting, PFLAG San Gabriel Valley leaders are available to provide you with support. Please reach out to us as follows: via email: sgvapipflag@gmail.com Sung Tse PFLAG SGV Co-president: kingmidas4@gmail.com via our FB page – https://www.facebook.com/pg/sgvapipflag/community/?ref=page_internal For urgent support, visit pflag.org/hotlines for an up-to-date list of emergency hotline numbers, available nationwide. Comments are closed.
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