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I'm Shereen Marisol Maraji and I'm Cat Chao.

Should we just get into it Shereen?

Let's do it.

Mom, dad, uncle, auntie, grandfather, grandmother.

We need to talk.

You may not have grown up around people who are black, but I have.

Black people are a fundamental part of my life.

They're my friends, my classmates and teammates, my roommates, my family.

Today, I'm scared for them.

That's TN Dang.

She's a young Vietnamese American woman reading the letter for black lives and we're going

to hear more from her after the break.

But that letter she's reading, it was written to get the older generation of Asians living

in this country to understand and hopefully care about the black lives matter movement.

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