Future Asian and Pacific History Month: Riz Ahmed's Push for Representation
FUSE TV - Future Asian and Pacific History Month: Riz Ahmed's Push for Representation
Fuse is celebrating Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month by looking at a variety of rising forces who are creating Future Asian and Pacific History before our eyes. For day one we're paying tribute to Riz Ahmed, the British actor/rapper (as Riz MC) whose voice for change grows in volume as his star rises high over Hollywood, the world and George Lucas' galaxy far, far away.
“People are looking for the message that they belong," Ahmed, the son of immigrants from Karachi, in Pakistan's Sindh province, recently told the U.K. Parliament. "That they are part of something, that they are seen and heard and that despite, or perhaps because of, their experience, they are valued."
The 34-year-old Londoner, who is Muslim and holds a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford's Christ Church college, was there in March delivering an annual diversity lecture from Channel 4. He cautioned against the disastrous ramifications of failing to reflect the world's diversity, of typecasting brown faces as terrorists ad infinitum, of impressionable and vulnerable youth being "mis-sold a story that is so narrow about who we are and who we should be.” He spoke about ISIS' insidiously alluring recruitment videos, "cut like action movies," asking:
"Where is the counter-narrative? Where are we telling these kids they can be heroes in our stories, that they are valued? ... I'm here to ask for your help in finding a new national story that embraces and empowers as many of us as possible, rather than excluding us and alienating large sections of the population."
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