On the last day of May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Month (AAPI), the Korean pop super group, BTS visited the White House to talk to him US President Joe Biden for the integration and representation of Asians.
THE White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre introduced the band during the press conference and its leader, RM speaking in English, introduced the members and thanked Joe Biden for the opportunity he gave them to talk about “Important issues of hate crimes against Asians, integration and diversity”
Then each of the members spoke in Korean with them Jin and Jimin to state how honored they are to be in the White House on the last day of AAPI Month to support their community. Jimin said: ““We are devastated by the recent wave of hate crimes that has been going on since the start of the coronavirus pandemic … to put an end to this and to support this cause, we would like to take this opportunity to lend our voices.”
THE J Hope he added: “We are here today thanks to ARMY – our fans around the world – who are from different nationalities and cultures and use different languages. We are sincere and always grateful. “
THE Jungkook He concluded by saying that the band “is still surprised that the music created by South Korean artists reaches so many people around the world; we believe that music is always an amazing and wonderful unifying factor of all things”.
“It is not wrong to be different, equality begins when we open up and embrace all our differences” said Suga.
“We hope that today is a step forward for the respect and understanding of everyone and everyone as valuable personalities” stressed V.
In total, more than 250,000 spectators watched the press conference on the live streaming of the White House on YouTube.
In the middle of outbreak of hate crimes against Asians in US last year, BTS spoke about their own experience with discrimination in a statement on Twitter saying:
“We can not express in words the pain of becoming the object of hatred and violence for such a reason. Our experiences are insignificant compared to the events of recent weeks. “But these experiences were enough to make us feel powerless and lose our self-esteem.”
BTS guided the White House before and after the briefing had a closed-door meeting with the US President at the Oval Office. Biden government officials have spent the past week attending roundtable discussions and other meetings with top representatives of the Asian community in the United States to discuss violence.
Since their establishment in 2013, BTS have gained worldwide recognition ctheir music and human rights activism and have spoken at the UN General Assembly.
The band reached its peak Billboard Hot 100 chart three times in 2020 and was nominated for major music awards such as Grammysτα Billboard Music Awards and MTV Video Music Awards.
The BTS was followed by a press briefing by Brian Dizzy, director of the US National Economic Council on the meeting of US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell with Joe Biden.
“I have to go home and tell my kids that BTS appeared before me” Dizzy joked. “I’m sure those in the room are ‘just as excited’ to talk about the impact of inflation on the US economy as it was on the band,” he said.
Jean-Pierre said the BTS hoped to “fight racism, xenophobia and intolerance” faced by Asian communities. He noted that Joe Biden signed legislation to combat hate crimes over COVID-19 and issued an executive order reinstating the White House initiative for Asian Americans, Hawaiian Indigenous peoples and Pacific Islanders in assisting in the investigation. prevention of racism against these communities.
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