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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebrates the contributions of one of the fastest-growing groups of people living in the United States. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders contain multitudes. They are a global community with a homegrown and unique perspective on America.
Their diversity expands continents and demographics. The hopes and dreams of the AAPI community are America at its finest, and its people and traditions are those that are tightly stitched into the fabric of the nation. The American dream is alive and well within the AAPI community, and we ve gathered so many of those dreams here throughout this inspiring list of individuals.
Project Community: Asian Americans say COVID-19, political rhetoric added fuel to racist fire Share Updated: 7:55 PM EDT Apr 27, 2021 Share Updated: 7:55 PM EDT Apr 27, 2021
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Show Transcript MORE THAN A YEAR AGO, ON MARCH 12, 2020, ASIAN AMERICAN LEADERS STOOD ON THE STEPS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE TO SOUND AN ALARM. WE DON’T TOLERATE ANY KIND OF BIGOTRY, TARGETED AT ANYONE BECAUSE OF THIS INFECTION. ANTOINETTE: THEY WARNED OF WHAT COULD COME, OF THE USE OF RACIALLY CHARGED TERMS FOR COVID-19. BUT NO ONE KNEW HOW BAD IT WOULD GET. ASIAN AMERICANS ARE UNDER ATTACK ACROSS THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW. BUT MANY WILL TELL YOU THIS RACISM IS NOTHING NEW. I THINK IT IS JUST THE REST OF AMERICA WAKING UP TO THE REALITY OF IT AND HEARING OUR CRIES. ANTOINETTE: SAM HUMAN IS THE CHAIRPERSON OF MASSACHUSETTS ASIAN AMERICAN COMMISSION. WE TOLD EVERYBODY WHO WOULD LISTEN THAT THIS WAS GOING TO LEAD TO A DISASTER AND IT DID. ANTOINETTE: FR
A year ago, Lunar New Year celebrations unfolded as COVID-19 began spreading globally, ushering in a new wave of anti-Asian bias stoked by then-President Trump and the xenophobic rhetoric he used in labeling the disease the âChina virus.â
Now, as festivities this weekend mark another Lunar New Year, coronavirus vaccines offer relief from the virus but not from the racism directed at people of Asian descent, who have seen the bias turn to violence, notably against the elderly. The cases include the murder in San Francisco of Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai man; a subway attack in New York City during which a 61-year-old Flipino man was slashed across the face with a knife; and several assaults targeting older Asian Americans in the Chinatown section of Oakland, Calif.