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<v 0>There have been a string of violent attacks on Asian Americans across the</v>

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country. In recent weeks that had gone widely unreported last Thursday,

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an 84 year old time. American was murdered in San Francisco.

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He died this week on Wednesday,

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a 64 year old Beaton's grandmother was assaulted in San Jose. Now the same day,

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if you're looking at American was slashed across the face on a subway in

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Manhattan, 2019 Nobel peace prize nominee, civil rights, activists and rise CEO,

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Amanda Wynn went viral, drawing attention to some of the attacks.

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Stop killing us. We are literally fearing for our lives.

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As we walk out of our door and your silence,

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your silence rings through our heads.

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It roars Asian-Americans have been the targets of xenophobic attacks and

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harassment throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

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With more than 2,800 anti-Asian incidents recorded by the stop

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API hate reporting center between March 19th and December 31st,

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and still more cases that went unreported.

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<v 1>In 2020. The fact that the president used words such as China virus, Wuhan flu ,</v>

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and even more pejorative terms really fueled this notion of xenophobia.

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This otherness that we saw in our community and people demonize the

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Asian-American community for COVID-19.

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<v 0>John C.</v>

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Yang president and executive director of Asian Americans advancing justice,

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says the recent attacks have caused the community to quote hunker down again.

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I was tired of living in fear and I wanted to

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scream, you know, first week in office,

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president Biden issued a memorandum condemning this discrimination today I'm

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directing federal agencies to combat the surges of xenophobia,

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particularly against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders that we've seen

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skyrocket during this pandemic. This is unacceptable and it's on America,

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but it's not new discrimination against Asian Americans began long before

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COVID-19. We are consistently asked, well, where,

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where are you from? No, really? Where are you from?

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Even if we've generations been here,

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even if we built the railroads in the 18 hundreds,

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even if we fought in Wars,

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we were still rounded up like animals and Terman camps and lynched.

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And one of the biggest lynchings in us history and our history is not taught.

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That's what I'm advocating for our stories to be covered and our history to

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be taught because these things create empathy.

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It will help people understand that Asian Americans are

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Americans and Asian Americans aren't alone.

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<v 1>But I think it's also important to recognize that a lot of these issues are</v>

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faced by more than just the Asian-American community is faced by other

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communities of color.

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What we need to be worried about is economic security for every,

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we need to be worried about making sure that people are safe and that starts

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from community.

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It starts from having conversations oftentimes within the community between

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different races, between different groups of people,

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to understand where these differences come from so that we can come together

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more.