The executive director of the New York-based Asian American Federation says the community is facing a mental health crisis
Gov. Kathy Hochul, she's the first one who threw in money,. Three million dollars is a big deal for our community. The safety programs. It was: “You know your community best. Go do the programming that we need to do.”
We were also in lockdown, and during our global pandemic, that made it really hard. I think I need to be gracious here. We do need some post-mortem and we do need some assessment. I also hear the anti-Asian country sentiments of our elected leaders in Congress, like anti-TikTok, anti-China. You can have disagreements with foreign countries. But the problem is that those sentiments get transferred on to Asian Americans. We're gonna have to pay the price, and we know that, and we're watching and we are scared.We're all trying to cope.They're all trying to cope. I don't know, how do you heal? You are violated in your own city, in your own neighborhood.
This is how we all have to live: You have to trust people. You have to trust your fellow New Yorkers that they're not gonna harm you. For them, that trust has been violated in the worst way. How do you regain that? How do you regain the trust in that somebody isn't going to be around the corner and punch you in the face?
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