Seoul – South Korea`s worldwide well-known K-pop music group BTS known as on Tuesday (Marc 30) for an end to anti-Asian racism and stated it had additionally suffered racist abuse which had made them really feel powerless and damage their shallowness.
BTS, the primary K-pop group to ever obtain a Grammy Award nomination, made the attraction in an announcement posted on Twitter together with hashtags #CeaseAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate.
In an obvious reference to the shootings in Georgia, Atlanta, on March 16, the place six out of eight victims had been Asian, the group wrote, “We send our deepest condolences to those who have lost their loved one.”
The shootings have stoked fears amongst these within the Asian-American Pacific Islander group, which has reported a spike in hate crimes since March 2020 when then-President Donald Trump started referring to COVID-19 because the “China virus.”
The seven-member BTS, which final 12 months had three No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, additionally stated that they had confronted racist abuse, together with enduring expletives, being mocked for the way in which they give the impression of being, and being requested why Asians had been talking English.
“Our own experiences are inconsequential compared to the events that have occurred over the past few weeks,” the assertion stated. “But these experiences were enough to make us feel powerless and chip away our self-esteem.”
“What is happening right now cannot be dissociated from our identity as Asians,” BTS wrote. The group additionally stated it condemned violence and stands towards racial discrimination.
Last 12 months BTS donated $1 million to Black Lives Matter (BLM) in assist of U.S. protests towards police brutality, prompting their fan base to elevate sufficient to match that donation in simply 25 hours.
