Lana Condor Shared A Powerful Message To "Stand With" The Asian Community After The Atlanta Shootings

    "Your Asian friend needs you."

    Larry Fitzmaurice
    by Larry Fitzmaurice

    BuzzFeed Staff

    You know Lana Condor.

    Following the spike in hate crimes against the Asian American community, as well as this week's deadly Georgia shootings, in which a man killed eight people, including six Asian women, the To All the Boys I've Loved Before actor shared a message to her fans imploring them to support the Asian community during this time.

    Lana Condor at the premiere of Mulan in March 2020 in Hollywood
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    "Wake up... your Asian friends and family are deeply scared, horrified, sick to their stomachs and wildly angry," she began.

    Lana Condor @lanacondor

    Wake up... your Asian friends and family are deeply scared, horrified, sick to their stomachs and wildly angry. Please please please check in on us, please please please stand with us. Please. Your Asian friend needs you, even if they aren’t publicly grieving on social media. x

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    Twitter: @lanacondor

    "Please please please check in on us, please please please stand with us. Please. Your Asian friend needs you, even if they aren’t publicly grieving on social media."

    Condor thanked her fans for their support in a follow-up tweet: "You guys don't know how much your kind words mean to me right now."

    Lana Condor @lanacondor

    You guys don’t know how much your kind words mean to me right now 😭❤️ I love you so much wow

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    @lanacondor / Via Twitter: @lanacondor

    Condor later shared more thoughts on Twitter, mentioning that her boyfriend Anthony De La Torre was "afraid for [her] to go to the nail salon."

    Lana Condor @lanacondor

    Anthony told me last night he is afraid for me to go to the nail salon... This is not a world we should live in 💔

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    @lanacondor / Via Twitter: @lanacondor

    "This is not a world we should live in."

    Emily in Paris actor Ashley Park also posted a video to Instagram sharing her feelings on the events and how to move forward.

    "This 21-year-old with a gun last night," Park said. "He came from somewhere, and at some point someone could have told him what he was feeling and thinking, and that hate was wrong. It starts at a really small level, and I think we can do it."

    Read Park's full statement here, and head here to learn how you can help prevent hate crimes against Asian Americans.