I believe it is important for social workers to be aware of the ways in which people of color experience racism, the ways in which our own personal biases can affect the therapeutic process, and how these relate to the NASW Code of Ethics. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.Within the last several years, there have been numerous studies linking racist acts, both violent and nonviolent, to symptoms of trauma in people of color (POC). Head over to NBC News’ website to read Vang’s essay in its entirety. Showing ‘our American-ness’ was never enough. “For Asian Americans, this is the time to demand recognition, not to recoil into a cocoon of model-minority pusillanimity. ‘Gook.’ ‘Slope head.’ ‘Eggroll.’ It’s a ‘harmless joke,’ right? Until it’s not just a joke, but rather one more excuse for ignoring white supremacy and racism,” the essay reads. “To this day, I am still haunted by the mirth of white audiences, the uproarious laughter when Eastwood’s curmudgeonly racist character, Walt Kowalski, growled a slur.
The laughter weaponized against us has beaten us into silent submission.” But more concerning was the way the film mainstreamed anti-Asian racism, even as it increased Asian American representation. When Vang circles back to “Gran Torino,” he writes, “ may have elided the crisis in Asia that birthed our diaspora and many others across the Pacific. The bulk of Vang’s essay touches upon recent examples of anti-Asian racism, from last year’s stabbing of an Asian American family in Midland, Texas, to the recent murder of Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai American. 'Bridgerton' Season 2: Everything You Need to Know About the Netflix HitĮmmy Predictions: Best Actor in a Drama Series - One More for Porter, or a First for O'Connor? How to Watch 'Cry Macho' on HBO Max for Less Than $8 More than a decade later, the anti-Asian racism that was once disguised as good-natured humor has been revealed for what it is, thanks to Covid-19.”Ĭlint Eastwood's 'Cry Macho' Is 'a Shrunken Dirty Harry,' Says Paul Schrader And it was always white people who would say, ‘Can’t you take a joke?’ Today, I shudder at the thought of what that meant.
Vang continues, “At the time, there was a lot of discussion about whether the movie’s slurs were insensitive and gratuitous or simply ‘harmless jokes.’ I found it unnerving, the laughter that the slurs elicited in theaters with predominantly white audiences.
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