Photo: Jeff Chiu/AP/Shutterstock On a Sunday evening in Oakland Chinatown, two Asian men in their 20s and 30s hurried down the sidewalk with Zoe Li, an Asian woman in her late 60s who was dressed all in black, her face covered in a black mask. The street, normally crowded with merchants and visitors, was quiet and empty. The two men, Derek Ko and Sam Li, had responded to Zoe’s request for chaperones to accompany her on the two-block walk from her cooking-appliance store to her car.
He met with Carl Chan, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, to facilitate introductions with merchants. As someone active with the chamber for 35 years, Chan has been the de facto spokesperson for Oakland Chinatown, often appearing at the podium at press conferences and Stop Asian Hate protests, coordinating patrol groups, and generally pulling strings here and there on behalf of the chamber. Some call him the “mayor of Oakland Chinatown.
Some long-term residents were uncomfortable with all the money flooding into the group. “Because Compassion hasn’t had a consistent presence, people in Chinatown feel a little uneasy about it,” said Jennifer Li, a native New Yorker now living in Oakland Chinatown. Joanna Au, another Oakland resident, couldn’t help but be a little suspicious of all the people coming to Chinatown claiming they wanted to help. “I just feel like people would want something out of it that benefits them,” she said.
But Chan and other community leaders have been calling for more police presence and, in fact, welcomed the increased presence of California Highway Patrol. As a child, Karson Kwan used to accompany his grandparents on shopping excursions in Oakland Chinatown. Now he is a 24-year-old sales engineer at a software company and volunteers as a pod leader with Compassion in Oakland. On one trip, Kwan and five Compassion in Oakland volunteers walked an elderly man home. It reminded him of walking with his grandparents down the same streets years ago.
SarahBelleLin 这种反亚裔报道，应该感到耻辱。 他们保卫的是政府渎职造成的结果，他们打击的是违法者，不是普通游客。
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