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Collected Item: “End Violence”

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End Violence

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

In this photograph man is helping the owner of the shop pick up his display stand after a group of teenagers vandalize his store in Chinatown.

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This picture if relevant to what is happening to Asian Americans, they face hate crimes almost everyday ever since the outbreak of COVID-19. As a young student who is proud to be an Asian, living in America suddenly sounds like a scary reality that we don't want to face, afraid to be suddenly attack by people who believe Asians are the reason there is a global pandemic.

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#GGHSAPUSH, #ENDVIOLENCE, #CRIMESAGAINSTASIANS

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https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/13/covid-19-fueling-anti-asian-racism-and-xenophobia-worldwide#

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Human Rights Watch

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2020-03-16
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