By: Holly Ji
With recent hate crimes against Asian-Americans due to COVID-19 pushing forward more xenophobia and sinophobia, the Asian community not only faces the horrible truth of how we are perceived in America, bordering the line of model minority and disease-carrying aliens, but also the raging anti-Blackness in our community.
Read MoreBy: Serene Hwang
These are just a couple of the innumerable anti-Asian hate crimes that have occurred in the past few weeks, but the American government refuses to recognize the issue. How many more parents and grandparents must we lose before justice is served?
Read MoreBy: Rosaline Dou
It has been old news that an Asian American female reporter asked President Trump, why testing is a global competition to him. She got an answer of “that’s a question you should ask China,” and was cut off from the question. I started to think about how people think of me, as a Chinese studying in the US all alone. Are they going to blame me for the pandemic?
Read MoreIn the land that preaches about freedom for ALL, happiness for ALL, and quite frequently, equality for ALL, you would think there would be fewer problems with racism. It isn’t the one or two radicals that appear in the media that represent the population but often the gestures or the actions of each and every person that determines the presentation of the image produced by the population.
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