Together We Must Stop Asian Hate

March 26, 2021
The horrific, tragic killing of 8 people – including 6 Asian and Asian American women by a white man in Atlanta Tuesday, March 16 – shines an uncomfortable, necessary spotlight on anti-Asian racism and violence in the United States. Both the shooting and its aftermath – in which a first responder attributed the shootings to “a bad day” rather than white supremacy, or the shooter placing the blame on his victims – shows the lengths to which many will go in an attempt to avoid facing difficult but necessary truths. […], March 26, 2021
The horrific, tragic killing of 8 people – including 6 Asian and Asian American women by a white man in Atlanta Tuesday, March 16 – shines an uncomfortable, necessary spotlight on anti-Asian racism and violence in the United States. Both the shooting and its aftermath – in which a first responder attributed the shootings to “a bad day” rather than white supremacy, or the shooter placing the blame on his victims – shows the lengths to which many will go in an attempt to avoid facing difficult but necessary truths. […],