The Old School Lunch

Wow.

It’s one thing to say that you’re going to go to serve “specific communities of color” and go to the “African American, Hispanic and Native” communities. It’s another to say that you’re going to reach out to the “communities of color” and just name those three which is what our CEO recently did at our big all-staff meeting. Apparantly all the Asian and API folk in Washington who make up more of the population than the Black community doesn’t warrant any attention. She talked all this fluff about how we’re going to work extensively with members and organizations at this and that place while she said nothing and had no plan to work with the Asian or Pacific Islander communities. I guess I was hallucinating when I saw those statistics saying that Asian Pacific Islander teens have the highest rates of suicide out of any ethnic group in America. I guess I might’ve just read wrong when I saw that Filipinos girls ages 14-19 have the highest number of suicide ideations and attempts out of any single group. Keep in mind, again, that just looking at the population reports, Asian and API residents in Washington outnumber Blacks and Latinos. Specifically, Filipinos are the largest Asian subgroup in Washington. And wow, we’re not going to address that issue right there?