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Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

3/30/2021

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On Tuesday, March 16th eight people were shot and killed in what is now known as the “Atlanta Spa Shooting”. The victims were identified as Xiaojie Tan, Delaina Yaun, Hyun Jung Grant, Yong Ae Yue, Suncha Kim, Soon Chung Park, Paule Andre Michels and Daoyou Feng. Of those eight individuals, six of the victims were women of Asian descent, leading officials to believe that these victims were targeted due to race and gender. Many large news organizations are not calling it for what the act is, a Hate Crime. A Hate Crime as defined by the FBI is a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity”. While this case specifically is gaining a lot of attention, it is important to realize that this is one of many Asian-Hate Crimes that have occurred within the last year. 

Struggles and violence against the Asian American community are often overlooked. The model minority myth has been a way to hide anti-Asian racism by using the stereotype that Asian Americans are successful and non-problematic in contrast to other minority groups. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Hate Crimes against Asian Americans have gone up by 1900%. Violence and racism towards the Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) community has been occurring at large scales, but the media has just now started reporting on it. 

For example:
Asian Americans have been denied services. 
Their businesses have been avoided.
Asian American children were murdered in the grocery store.
An Asian woman had acid thrown on her.
Businesses were robbed and destroyed.
A Vietnamese grandmother was robbed and assaulted.
Older Asian Americans have been  targeted and assaulted.  
Many have also been killed.

Those are just a few of the over 2,800 incidents that have been reported. With the rise of these incidents, it is important to make ourselves aware of what is going on in our country regarding these racial attacks and support those within the AAPI community. 

How Can You Help Support the AAPI Community?
  • Amplify and share these stories
  • Call your legislators and ask what they are doing to support the AAPI community
  • Check in on your AAPI friends and family
  • Support your local Asian-American owned businesses
  • Order Takeout from your local Asian food restaurant
  • DO NOT BE SILENT.

Report Hate Incidents
The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) is a group of AAPI attorneys, judges, law professors and law students, created a  list of resources  that explain Hate Crimes and hate incidents and how to report them to law enforcement. There are also community organizations in which you can report these incidents to such as;
Stop AAPI Hate
The Stand Against Hatred

Donate
  • A donation page was created to support the victims and their families from the shootings on March 16th by the Atlanta chapter of Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
  • In early March GoFundMe launched #StopAsianHate in collaboration with GoldHouse and CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) to support hate crime victims and protect AAPI communities.
  • The CommUNITY Action Fund set up by the Hate Is a Virus has a goal of raising $1 million for national and local effects supporting the AAPI community.
  • The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) works to create legal advocacy and policy change for AAPI women and girls.
  • Heart of Dinner delivers meals and produce to New York City’s elderly AAPI community — you can donate here.

Learn About the Asian American Experience 
  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
  • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  • Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
  • The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston



Follow for Information on the AAPI Community 
@stopaapihate
@advancing_justice_atl
@aaajalc
@napawf_atl

Sign The Petition:
Petition to hold the media accountable for covering these stories by @asianamericancollective

Mental Health Resources
  • Racial Trauma Toolkit by Boston College
  • Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Therapist Directory
  • @AsianMentalHealthCollective
  • @AsiansForMentalHealth has a comment thread of therapists willing to offer reduced/free sessions to the AA community
  • @SubtleAsianMentalHealth on Facebook is offering free 1:1 supportive listening sessions
  • @Laichientherapy is offering Asian Pacific American pay-as-you-wish group therapy
  • Crisis Line: 1-800-273-TALK
  • Asian Languages: 1-877-990-8585
  • Crisis Text Line: text CONNECT to 741741


AAPI to Follow to Diversify Your Feed
@angryasianfeminist
@annie_wu_22
@kimsaira
@amandangocnguyen
@michellekimkim
@mayleeshow
@jackfrootx
@intersectional.abc
@courtneyahndesign
@weija

Organizations/Accounts to Support:
@HateIsAVirus
@NextShark
@AAPIWomenLead
@asianaaf
@stopaapihateyc
@asians4antiracism
@asianamericancollective
@smithsonianapa
@ricefeed
@unapologeticallyasian_
@goldhouseco
@asianamericangirlclub
@theycantburnusall
@weareaanow

References:
Definition of Hate Crimes
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes 
Anti-Asian Hate Crimes rise 1900%
https://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/anti-asian-hate-crime-jumps-1-900-percent/article_f007a05b-f43e-54ca-a3c6-1b5493333dea.html 

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