Articles (Stop AAPI Hate)
“Ham’s sentiments echo the fatigue, frustration and collective trauma experienced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) due to racist attacks on their communities.
For many in the AAPI community, just leaving home requires a new routine and a mental shift that prioritizes survival. It’s coupled with a subtle fear, wondering if they or a loved one will become the next victim.
“I no longer listen to music when I’m walking around,” Pearl Sun says. “I want to make sure I pay attention to what or whatever might be happening around me.”
This spike in hostility towards Asian Americans coincides with the Covid-19 pandemic. Between March and December of 2020, 2,808 complaints were reported to Stop AAPI Hate. The organization, which tracks racist encounters against Asian Americans, reported 8.7 percent of the incidents involved physical assaults, and 71 percent included verbal harassment like the one NBA star Jeremy Lin experienced, when he was called “coronavirus” on the court.”
– CNN, Attacks against Asian Americans are on the rise. Here’s what you can do.
“The attack Monday was among the latest in a national spike in anti-Asian hate crimes, and happened just weeks after a mass shooting in Atlanta that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent.
The surge in violence has been linked in part to misplaced blame for the coronavirus and Donald Trump’s use of racially charged terms like “China virus”.
Bill de Blasio, New York City’s mayor, called Monday’s attack “absolutely disgusting and outrageous”. He said it was “absolutely unacceptable” that witnesses did not intervene.
“I don’t care who you are, I don’t care what you do, you’ve got to help your fellow New Yorker,” de Blasio said, evoking the post-9/11 mantra of “see something, say something”.”
– The Gaurdian, New York man charged with hate crime for attack on Asian American woman.
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