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NEW YORK (WABC) Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials spoke out Tuesday about the city s renewed effort to confront hate crimes against Asians. Every community suffered, but there s been a particular pain, a particular horrible challenge, faced by the Asian American community, de Blasio said. Because on top of all the suffering from the coronavirus itself, on top of losing loved ones losing businesses, people have had to confront horrible discrimination and hatred.
The Asian Hate Crime Task Force is focusing on the entire city, but they will pay particular attention to the subways after a rash of incident in the transit system.
Loo says he was infuriated and says it was inspiration for him to create the task force. Historically Asian Americans have been victims at a disproportionate rate in New York City, Loo said. And the service they get from the police department, they don t really look for it because they don t speak English, they re afraid of the police, there s cultural barriers and differences.
But a number of community leaders have been questioning how effective the task force has been, including community leader Don Lee, who helped that Brooklyn grandmother. We don t see any actual support given to them. We don t see accountability. How can you have accountability when everyone is a volunteer? Lee said. This is a good step in the right direction.
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Two of the very first CDs I owned, unless my increasingly moth-ridden memory is betraying me, were Erasure’s greatest hits album
Pop! and the Pet Shop Boys’
Very, whose bright orange, Lego-like case I can still recall to this day. I ordered them in secret from a Columbia House catalog; their offer of what essentially amounted to free CDs before they made you pay up the nose for shit you didn’t want got me good. Remember that scam, where you started off by buying a handful of CDs for a penny?
For a middle schooler, their promise of shackling you to a lifetime of harassment from debt collection agencies felt like an answered prayer. I probably stole my dad’s credit card to pay for my habit after the initial outlay of a single cent, thus confining him and not me to that lifetime of harassment from debt collection agencies. (He never mentioned anything though, so I got away with it, and at any rate, it’s fine now because he’s dead!)