Hasan Minhaj to Asian-Americans: We Have To Be the Ones To Pull the Cop Off George Floyd’s Neck

EXCERPT:

MINHAJ: “America’s story didn’t start when we got here. When you became an American citizen, you don’t just get to own the country’s excellence. You have to own its failures. That is the deal. That’s why I can’t get this photo out of my head. Because it’s cropped wrong. Zoom out. Who’s in this photo? The officer who is blocking people off – he’s Hmong-American – he’s my age. He’s 34. The guy who owns the store – did you know this? He’s Arab-American! His clerk called the cops on Floyd. That is America. A black man was murdered in cold blood— and we were on the fucking sidelines watching! I’m not saying we were the ones who killed George Floyd. But we have to be the ones who pull that cop off his neck! We think we’re not a part of the story. But we’re at the scene of the crime! That’s why the full picture matters. This doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It happens in a system.”