The Atlanta massacre is yet another reminder we desperately need race-conscious discipleship
Most people don’t understand how Asian Americans have been racialized and how racism actually impacts us. Officials stand in front of a spa after a shooting March 16, 2021, in Atlanta. Shootings at two spas in Atlanta and one in the suburbs left multiple people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said. A 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken into custody in southwest Georgia hours later after a manhunt, police said. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
March 17, 2021
(RNS) My phone started lighting up with notifications. By now, when this happens, it’s usually because an incident involving race has occurred. As I picked up my phone, I saw the words, “8 shot dead in Atlanta.” My stomach dropped. All I could say to myself was: “Lord, have mercy. Not again. No more.”
LOS ANGELES (RNS) As of early March 2, more than $60,500 was raised for Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple through a GoFundMe page set up by the volunteer group Nikkei Progressives.