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Newspaper headlines from over 100 years ago showing anti-Asian rhetoric and policies in America flashed across the screen. A minute later, television news reports from the past year about violence and harassment against Asian-Americans echoed the messages from nearly a century ago.
The scene shifted to the voices of a dozen Asian and Pacific Islander students at Stony Brook University. “I have been discriminated against,” one student said, “I have been verbally harassed,” said another.
“Because of my racial identity,” they said in unison.
Even more voices flooded the presentation, this time expressing words of solidarity with the students and other victims of harassment and violence.
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