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THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER OF THE JACL March 19-April 8, 2021 CELEBRATING 9 2 YEARS Legacies of trauma intersect from both sides of Nobuko Miyamoto’s family. She is centered here in 2018 with her grandchildren, Asiyah (left) and Noora Ayubbi. PHOTO: ZOHAIR MOHSEN SHARING » PAGE 2 Biden Condemns Violence Against OUR LEGACY AAPI’s. Decades Following Redress, » PAGE 8 Japanese Americans Show Redemption for Dr. Seuss? Support for HR 40. » PAGE 6 #3383 / VOL. 172, No. 5 ISSN: 0030-8579 WWW.PACIFICCITIZEN.ORG 2 March 19-April 8, 2021 NATIONAL HOW TO REACH US BIDEN CONDEMNS VIOLENCE AGAINST Email: [email protected] Online: www.pacificcitizen.org Tel: (213) 620-1767 ASIAN AMERICANS IN ADDRESS Mail: 123 Ellison S. Onizuka St., Suite 313 Los Angeles, CA 90012 The president’s speech marks the one-year quarantine imposed after the pan- STAFF anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic. demic caused by the spread of the Executive Editor SARS-CoV-2 virus, which appears Allison Haramoto to have originated in China. Senior Editor By P.C. Staff them — our fellow Americans on the Digital & Social Media front lines of this pandemic trying to That situation has been exacerbated George Johnston n his first national address save lives — and still, still they are by trade and security tensions Business Manager since taking office, President forced to live in fear for their lives between the United States and the Susan Yokoyama People’s Republic of China. Production Artist Joe Biden on March 11 in- just walking down streets in America. Marie Samonte Icluded comments condemning the It’s wrong, it’s un-American, and it Biden’s comments stand in contrast to the previous administration, in Circulation surge of attacks against Americans must stop,” Biden said. Eva Ting of Asian descent. 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Onizuka St., Suite 313 | Los Angeles, CA 90012 | TEL: (213) 620-1767 | WWW.PACIFICCITIZEN.ORG (USPS Form 3575) COMMENTARY March 19-April 8, 2021 3 exploited Asian women to feed his leading the investigation around tant thing to say are the names of FROM THE so-called sex addiction and then the assertion that the motive does the victims: blamed them for what he saw as not appear to be racially motivated. Elcias Hernandez Ortiz, who E X E C U T I V E his shortcomings and punishing • The possible role that the survived and remains in the DIRECTOR them with their deaths. perpetrator’s evangelical Christian hospital (as of press time) • The societal stereotypes and background might have played Hyun Jung Grant fetishization of Asian women, in radicalizing his views and Daoyou Feng all as part of the fundamental regretfully the intersection of Suncha Kim dehumanization that racism serves conservative Christian theology Paul Andre Michels WHERE TO START, BUT to promote. and white supremacy. Soon C. Park • The socioeconomic dynamics of • The failure of gun laws that Xiaojie Tan WHEN WILL THIS END? Asian service workers during the allowed the murderer to purchase Delaina Ashley Yaun pandemic, interacting in close the gun on the same day he would Yong A. Yue contact with countless clients use it to end the lives of eight By David Inoue, that can be written about what has when social distancing is the safest people. The lone survivor and those whose JACL Executive Director happened — it leaves me paralyzed protection from infection. • The very fact that the use of a lives ended much too early are now with where to start. • The police humanizing the firearm enabled this to be a mass part of these other narratives that t has been a year since the • The culmination of a year of murderer, saying that this was murder. threaten to steal their personhood, Covid-19 pandemic first initi- violence toward Asians in a mass- just a case of someone having • A pattern of extremist and hate- their individuality in the same way ated increases in hatred toward casualty shooting left eight people a bad day . juxtaposed with based mass murders including that the pandemic of anti-Asian rac- IAsian communities and individu- ism has done for 3,800 others.