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I’m not going to claim I know all the answers. Nor am I going to speak on behalf of any organization or particular group. Rather I want to speak right now as a follower of Jesus who is desperately seeking God’s heart on how to act in the midsts of a lot of pain and anger that’s escalating at UCSD.

Today as I joined hundreds of others on campus to say “no” against blatant acts racism, I watched person after person take the mic and share their hearts. Some shared impassioned pleas to actions, others shared words of solidarity, and still others shared their pain and fear. As I stood there for 3 hours listening, I began to ask two very disturbing questions. First of all, where was the Asian American presence? As a majority minority on this campus, do we not have the responsibility to at least say we stand is solidarity with those who are suffering? But I think what was more troubling was I kept asking where was the Christian presence? Of the 30 or so people who spoke this morning representing everyone from the LGBT to faculty and even an openly Communist representative, I did not witness one person represent Jesus in the midsts of all this. Read the rest of this entry →