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Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans currently have some of the highest vaccination rates in Sacramento, according to county data. But organizers fear those numbers may be overinflated. ....
The resolute expression on 83-year-old Ngoc Pham’s swollen, bruised face is hard to forget. So is the image of 75-year-old Xiao Zhen Xie, who was filmed in the aftermath of her assault, clutching a pack of ice in her left hand and wielding a wooden board with her right. With it, she was motioning in the direction of her and Pham’s white attacker, who was being wheeled away on a stretcher, bloodied from Xie’s board. The assault against Pham and Xie on San Francisco’s Market Street occurred one day after the Atlanta spa shootings, stoking yet another wave of outrage and fear among Asian Americans. The seniors’ battered faces and testimonies garnered viral attention from various Instagram accounts dedicated to aggregating news, resources, and cultural content about Asian Americans. ....
Kimmy Yam, NBC News, December 23, 2020 In a year that saw the closing of businesses, skyrocketing unemployment and ongoing hate incidents concurrent with the public health crisis, the severity of Asian Americans’ struggles has been minimized at best or gone unnoticed at worst, experts say. Many trace the invisibility of the community’s challenges, in part, to the mythical characterization of the racial group as compliant, successful and faring well tropes that have long obscured the reality of their struggles. Asian Americans are the racial group least likely to reach out for help. And that fact coupled with an already existing belief that AAPIs don’t struggle has only exacerbated pandemic-related problems for the community. ....