May 13, 2021 • Iyko Day on Asian hate through the prism of anti-Blackness
NYPD officers step up patrols in Asian communities after mass shootings in Atlanta, March 17, 2021. Photo: Getty.
#STOPASIANHATE
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BECOME a rallying cry in response to the surge in anti-Asian violence since the beginning of the pandemic, from random, brutal attacks on the elderly to a white gunman’s murder of six Asian women as well as two others in Atlanta in March. As incidents of anti-Asian violence have accumulated alongside a continuous stream of viral videos of police officers killing Black people, there has been a tendency to collapse all forms of anti-Asian and anti-Black racial violence into an amorphous framework of “white supremacy.” At the same time, videos of Black men attacking Asians have u
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