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Stop Asian Hate!
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Stop Asian Hate!
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The rise in Asian hate crimes has gone hand in hand with COVID. This certainly was not helped by the previous administration continually referring to COVID as “China Flu” or “Kung Flu.” One of the more horrifying things is how close to home these incidents are happening. Just this month, there were two attacks at a local park on Asian Americans. One was on a Japanese-American Olympian, who was in training. The other was on an elderly Korean-American couple. I live in Southern CA, which has the third highest proportion of the population identifying as Asian, yet even here, racism and racially motivated violent crimes are happening. If there is any positive that is coming out of this, it is the honest conversations we’re having with our children about race. In light of George Floyd and similar situations, the immigrant population at the border, and anti-Asian crimes, our kids are engaged in an active dialogue about equity, prejudice, racism and our response to it. My children are proud to be Asian-American and seeing that pride and them use their voices, even in a small way, makes me hopeful for positive change. Like their signs say, they are proud to be Asian AND American, and to love them like people love Asian food! Oh yeah, and in this pandemic year, a reminder that they are not a virus.
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photograph
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Social Issues
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Race & Ethnicity
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Art & Design
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Protest
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Politics
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
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Asian
Asian American
anti-Asian crime
xenophobia
protest
pride
AAPI
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Asian & Pacific Islander Voices
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
04/22/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
05/09/2021
08/02/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
03/27/2021
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This item was submitted on April 22, 2021 by Kathryn Jue using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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