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Ivan G Thompson
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The Making of A Great America Uprooting the Spirit of Racism
Religion & Spirituality
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COVID-19 and Hate Crimes Against Asians
(NY Times) “Name-calling, shunning and assault were among the nearly 3,800 hate incidents reported against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders nationwide over the last year, according to Stop AAPI Hate… The report was released the same day that eight people, six of them Asian, were fatally shot at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. Stop AAPI Hate called the shootings ‘an unspeakable tragedy’ for the victims’ families and an Asian-American community that has ‘been reeling from high levels of racist attacks.’… The incidents…mostly verbal harassment and name-calling, or about 68 percent of those reported, while shunning, or the deliberate avoidance of Asian-Americans, composed about 20 percent. About 11 percent of the reports involved physical assault... Activists and elected officials say attacks were fueled early in the pandemic by former President Donald J. Trump, who frequently used racist language to refer to the coronavirus. …some of the people who reported hate incidents said they were spat at or coughed on. One person, a Pacific Islander, reported that while speaking Chamorro at a Dallas mall a woman coughed and said, ‘You and your people are the reason why we have corona.’ She then said, ‘Go sail a boat back to your island,’… Chinese people composed the largest ethnic group (42.2 percent) that reported experiencing hate events, followed by Koreans, Vietnamese and Filipinos.”
Book Excerpt
The Making of A Great America Uprooting the Spirit of Racism
These excerpts are from the chapter in the book entitled "A Day in the Life"
Singing Happy Birthday while Asian (July 2020) (Elfrink, 2020)
“’We were celebrating my tita’s birthday, literally just singing happy birthday to her and taking pictures, when this white supremacist starts yelling disgusting racist remarks at us,’ Orosa’s niece, Jordan Chan, wrote in an Instagram post. ‘Trump’s going to f--- you,’ he said, adding that the family ‘need to leave’ and calling one of them an ‘Asian piece of s---.’ After the video went viral on Tuesday, multiple journalists identified the man as Michael Lofthouse, CEO of Solid8, a cloud computing firm based in San Francisco. By the day’s end, Lofthouse had deleted all his social media accounts and issued an apology to a local TV station. The incident is the latest vivid illustration of a rising tide of racist abuse against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, a trend many critics tie to Republican leaders blaming China for the disease. President Trump has repeatedly used the racist term ‘kung flu’ for the virus, and on Tuesday again called it the ‘China Virus’ on Twitter.”
Article: https://wapo.st/3kpQDr7
While Taking out the Trash, Going to Sam’s Clu b (Apr 2020) (Tina Moore, 2020)
In Brooklyn, New York, an Asian woman suffered an apparently race-based acid attack while taking out her garbage on April 5. A few weeks earlier in Texas, a man targeted and stabbed a Burmese-American man and his two children, ages 2 and 6, at a Sam’s Club. He said he had attempted to kill the family because he believed they were “Chinese and infecting people with the coronavirus.” One of the children had a laceration wound from his ear across his eye.
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