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It began with Kelly Yang’s three children, who started fielding questions about whether they had COVID-19 because they’re Chinese. Coronavirus tag ensued, and her son was somehow always “it.”
Then Yang, an author who moved to the U.S. from China at age 6, taught a free online writing class for teens. One student called her a Chinese virus in the middle of the session.
But the most upsetting incident occurred last spring, at a grassy park near her former East Bay home. A woman charged toward her, angry that Yang’s labradoodle wasn’t on a leash. “There are signs everywhere. Can you read?” the woman said, and used a racial slur.
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Hundreds attended a multicultural and multiracial rally held in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza during the first Lunar New Year weekend on Sunday, Feb. 14. The event, organized in the effort to decry a recent high-profile string of violent attacks on Asian and Pacific Islander people, featured speakers with deep roots in San Francisco.
Sasanna Yee, left
Before leading the crowd in a Qi Gong exercise to help transform pain and anger into “compassionate power,” Sasanna Yee of Communities as One, a S.F.-based nonprofit building cross-cultural partnerships, shared a story of loss involving her own grandmother, Yik Oi Huang, who left home one day in January 2019, and did not return. Yee found her grandma at a nearby playground, where she had been brutally attacked and left for dead. “I’m here to remind folks to remember her not as a victim,” said Yee, who asked the crowd to sa
An 91-year-old man shoved to the ground in Oakland, California’s Chinatown. A 50-something woman thrown into a set of newsstands in Flushing, Queens. An 84-year-old man fatally assaulted in San Francisco. A recent spate of violence against Asian elders has left many Asian Americans across the country feeling targeted, wondering whether these are random acts of crime – or fueled by anti-Asian bias. The attacks have shaken Asian immigrant.
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