Anti-Asian Racism

New Outlooks Essay: "Ain't Gonna Burn Us All"

New Outlooks Essay: "Ain't Gonna Burn Us All"

“Ain’t Gonna Burn Us All” took me a long time to write. In fact, this was the last song I recorded for my album. I eventually came up with the music, but it took me a long time to pen down lyrics. Perhaps, it’s because that even though this hate crime did not happen to me, and it occurred 221 miles away in Brooklyn, NY, the incident still sort of hit home for me. That could have been mine, or my friend’s grandmother who was set on fire.