This undated photo provided by Bawi Cung, shows Bawi Cung, right, seated with his children at home, before he and his two sons were stabbed in an anti-Asian attack last March 2020 at Sam's Club in Midland, Texas. Asian Americans have been facing a dangerous climate since the coronavirus entered the U.S. a year ago. A rash of crimes victimizing elderly Asian Americans in the last two months has renewed outcry for more attention from politicians and the media.
Now, just over a year and thousands of incidents later, some of the early victims find moving forward has been difficult or, at best, bittersweet. A recent wave of attacks on elderly Asian Americans — including the death of an 84-year-old San Francisco man — has fueled worries that hostilities have only worsened.
Owen, who was stabbed in the leg and deeply cut in his right palm, and an off-duty Border Patrol agent detained the suspect, Jose Gomez, 19.In April, a confrontation in a Richmond, California, park left an irrevocable impact not just on Kelly Yang, 36, but her children. She was forced to discuss anti-Asian racism with her son, 10, and daughter, 7 — a talk she didn’t think would happen for a few more years.
“At the time it pissed me off, but I have more important things to worry about,” Kim said. “Maintaining a business is more important.” More than 3,000 incidents have been reported to Stop AAPI Hate, a California-based reporting center for Asian American Pacific Islanders, and its partner advocacy groups, since mid-March 2020. What’s frustrating is that the encounters don’t often rise to the legal definition of a hate crime.
blaming trump isn't the solution,he is an equal opportunity racist. Anti-trump minorities attacks on Asian rises since he left office in 2021.
if the coronavirus started elsewhere & no in china it served no political advantage for west to spread anti-Chinese racism, and no economic benefits & promotion of RNA vaccine.
This anti-Asian racism is using coronavirus as excuse. As this pandemic has not benefited anyone, not socially nor politically. However, it benefit anti-Chinese racism. If the Virus did started in USA, Europe or Africa or latin, how would it have been different for those people
What a complete moron to hurt this family. How could they possibly have any fault in this pandemic. God speed to this poor family. May the idiot that attack your family rot in hell.
This has to 🛑 enough they had nothing to do with virus’s
This is absolutely gutting! If you know your history, get educated or seek out information, you know of all the GIGANTIC contributions ALL Asians have made to this country and the world. God help me if I witness a mofo acting out of racism, hatred, or violence, iwillnotstandby
jljenniferliu Could go back to your country, there is no discrimination, only love and tolerance!
It's sad to see some of the perpetrator are African Americans. All of people, I would think they would rather have empathy towards asians. I will carry a gun with me so PLEASE go ahead and attack me or my family. I will shoot without hesitation. I guess an eye or an eye.
So Heartbreaking that innocent people have to pay for stupidness not even caused by them 💔😢 I thought America was better than this but I guess not.....Very Sad!!!😞
So sorry
How sad !!
This never should have happened and makes me sick. We had a grown child for a President that continually spread lies about COVID.
This is directly on Drumpf's shoulders and needs to stop, but he won't say a damn thing to stop it and neither will the GQP.
StopAsianHate
I’m very confused by the “rationale” being made by the bigots here. Do they think Chinese-Americans, or just Chinese people in general, are like more connected to COVID just because the mutation that jumped to humans was first identified in Wuhan. Is that all there is to this?
💔😡
Another outcome of four years of Trump -so scary
So so sad now they know how black n brown and trans people feel when we are killed everyday sometimes on live tv n no one is held accountable.. just look at trump ... sad sad sad
Hitler was obsessed with a 'master race' consisting exclusively of blonde, blue eyed children, with no defects. Disabled people and the elderly were not well tolerated. Starting to sound familiar?
Thank you precedent trump.
Lock all these racists up. These redneck kkk’s gotta go. It just had to be “ Texas.”
Who are most of the attackers? I'm pretty confident its not white MAGA conservatives.
These hate crimes must be prosecuted!
JacekJasinski My God! America has an insanity problem that has been politicized. It has deep roots that are steadily growing. Native Americans, Black Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Muslims, and Democratic Party members! Life means nothing to the criminal insane!!
Look at these sweet children. It’s the ones that are doing these crimes that are disgusting people.
You never hear about widespread bigotry and prejudice towards White Americans from...Black, Asian, Native, and Latino culture Americans. The majority rules and have more evil factions and ignorance than the minority.
Welcome to the club my Asian brothas enjoy your stay at the RACIST INN
No one should feel this fear especially children. Trump pushed hate and hateful people passed it in. Maybe we should consider revoking these hate mongers citizenship whether born here or not and banish them.
Stop having so many babies just stop already
Not unusual to live in a town like Midland Texas as Asian immigrants! Texas is a red State, a total Trump land! Even without the virus thing, you don’t expect a total racially peaceful life there. That’s part of American culture & you’ve to live with it if you chose to live in US
I couldn’t finish the article because I am so disgusted. This is all Trump, all the time. He brought this hatred to innocent people because he loves nothing more than using his power to incite violence. Two little boys, 3 and 6, stabbed because of his racial slurs. Arrest him.
kurtbardella StopAsianHate StopAAPIHate StopAsianHateCrimes
kurtbardella The Trump influence.
Horrible! Not just Trump and his swamp, those popular media hosts went on air to defend the use of China virus and joked abt kung flu etc, amplified anti-Asian racism despite some hosts facing racism themselves, failing to understand one form of racism will trigger another.
cryborg Beautiful kids!
Who tf slashes a baby in the back and a little toddler in the face? For any reason? Those poor kids.
Why? Just why? Can people just not leave others alone ..? Quit .. Just Quit
this is what 99% of these attacks look like, this THUG wasnt responding to anything Trump said. come on no one believes that!
It was Trump and his cabinet officials who incited racial hatred with lies
If one isn’t in the category of “white”, it seems that one is in danger of being attacked and beaten or killed.
Isn't it interesting how we only this racist xenophobia in white supremacist countries like the US? Non-white countries would be wise to limit the number of people white people they allow in their country. Do not allow your countries to be taken over why hateful white people
Disgusting and heartbreaking.
Makes no sense. How are regular people responsible for something the leadership might have done? Especially if they live here.
It is predictable, since Trump had started using 'China virus'. Ridiculously such a person was a president.
Excuse me, , their attacker, Jose Gomez, is a Mexican racist, while the wall was being built by the Trump administration.
Now that Black History Month is over hopefully most of the anti-Asian hate crimes will go away.
Where's are reparations fool! AsianIsTheNewBlack
The horrid reality of DJT calling Covid “ The China Virus.”
Absolutely horrific crime against humanity! Where did we go wrong? 'They say the children are the future', please, look at those little smiling faces, so innocent. This could change who they are! Conversely, with support, they may grow up & change the world, despite this trauma
This story is absolutely heartbreaking in so many ways.I am so glad they survived the attack &I am so sorry the children had to go through this most odious experience,just horrible.I wish I could perform magic & make all ppl accepting & honest! Truly I do! Tired of the violence!
Thats why Texas has fair gun laws so this stuff wont happen. Get trained get a gun and they wont be able to stab you or your family.
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We (non-Asians) must speak up!! 'Yang is afraid a lot of non-Asians have already shrugged off the issue as though it ceased when Trump’s presidency did.' STOP Hate against Asian American Pacific Islander communities
Asian living in America are not asian.. they are american!
Interesting how ppl talk about how Nazi’s are bad, but they don’t seem to talk about how Germans are bad. It’s as if ppl are capable of separating ideology from color or national origin in one case but not the other. I wonder what’s different?
Solidarity and security. People should not feel unsafe to come to the United States.
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Texas Dem primary, 2020. Wonder why Dems want to shepherd Asian-Americans away from leftism/progressivism and toward idpol reductionism?
Absolutely terrifying. This is what happens when hate filled, fake news, is spread.
civildiscourse7 I get so much opposition from Facebook on fighting people who still say 'the China Virus' and I don't care.Those people are not great. Perhaps analyze your diets and recognize that the past few pandemics are zoonotic in nature, that's more telling than where this mess originated
Understanding recent crimes on Asians promulgated from white grievance-stricken former president’s targeted rhetorics against China, more white public figures must speak up. Until they do, their silence and looking away will loom large...that hate to others is ‘not my issue.’
Bloody Donald Trump
Awful. Very sorry. Words matter. Thanks Trump.
Leave Asian AMERICANS alone, you nerfherders!
nice
Just because one corrupt thug couldn’t stop calling it the “China virus”
The Bible condemns all White supremacy 2 cor 5:16 So from now on we know no man from a fleshly viewpoint. Rom 8:13 for if you live according to the flesh, you are sure to die America is marinated in what God condemns
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