AAAJ Hate Crimes
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Data from our national, multi-lingual hate-tracking website: www.standagainsthatred.org **N/A means that either the reported incident was spam or the incident wasn’t categorizable. Majority of verbal abuse involve being told to “go back to China”. ***Also note that the “Types of Incident” may have overlap. Where the Incidents Occur Light blue = 0; medium blue = 1-9; dark blue=10+ Most incidents are reported to be happening in CA, NY, WA. Sampling of Anecdotes “I was in the food court at a mall and some dudebros were being douches, making sexual remarks about women and denigrating homosexuals. Typical white male stuff. Then this Korean dude sits down a couple tables over, and the bros start talking about how they're going to "flood this chink's rice paddy". So the one bro goes over there. Says "Hey gook how's that dog tasting? Looks a little dry there!" He proceeds to dump his Gatorade all over the guy's lunch, and walks away laughing and telling the guy to go back to China. I got the guy some paper towels and the bros called us both faggots. I've never really seen anything like it, but I guess this is par for the course in Trump's America.” In a food court in CA “After dinner, I was standing on the street trying to hail a cab. A group of two white men and three white women ran ahead of me and as I was trying to get into the cab, one of the men knocked me away from the door. In a Southern accent he shouted at me to go back to squatting on the street with my pajamas "back where I came from". I struggled to hold on to the door and keep upright, at which point he called me a slant eyed chink and grabbed both my arms and started shaking me. I fought to get free and finally managed to get inside the car and close the door against him. His companions were laughing.” On University Ave in New York City “I was exiting a locally owned hardware store in a small city where I was born and lived practically my entire life, in broad daylight, when a man in his late-thirties, early-forties, aggressively followed me across the parking lot to my car screaming and mimicking the sounds of an AK-47. He yelled: "JAP", "VIETNAMESE", "YELLOW [n-word]", all the while threatening to rape me and ship my remains back to where I come from. I ran when I noticed he'd escalated to picking up a pipe... When I decided to self-advocate and report the incident, I was met with some shock, some dismissal, and because I work in non-profit/ social services, I immediately recognized how difficult the process was (e.g. jumping through hoops, assumptions made, writing long reports). How would this process seem to my say older mother, who comes from a different culture of let's let it go, and who might be afraid to sit behind a sheet of glass and answer questions to a stranger. What about someone who writing is difficult or impossible?” At Union Station Plaza in Portland, Maine Identifying & Reporting Hate Incidents in Los Angeles County advancingjustice-la.org 3/2017 Report any hate incident to Advancing Justice: standagainsthatred.org 9/1/2017 Asian Americans Must Refuse to Be Complicit in White Supremacy Modern day Ku Klux Klan members marched through Charlottesville this past weekend, emboldened, in their own words, by our current President. From the Chinese Exclusion Act to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, our history in this nation is deeply intertwined with white supremacy and nativism. We call on all Asian Americans to join us in defending our vision of democracy – one where we protect the vulnerable amongst us, resist eorts to erode our hard-won rights and protections, and ght to advance progress for all marginalized communities. Are you with us? Pledge your support now. Read our letter below to understand who we are, what we stand for, and what we're seeking to do. Email Address* First Name* Last Name* City https://advancingjustice.salsalabs.org/refusewhitesupremacy/index.html 1/5 9/1/2017 Asian Americans Must Refuse to Be Complicit in White Supremacy State Please select state/province Zip Code* Add me to Advancing Justice's advocacy network. You may receive updates from Asian Americans Advancing Justice and collaborating partners. I pledge to defend my democracy and ght white supremacy. Add my name! Dear fellow Asian Americans, Modern day Ku Klux Klan members marched through Charlottesville this past weekend, emboldened, in their own words, by our current President. They lacked hoods but if anyone doubted their intentions, they carried torches and Nazi and Confederate flags to ensure the world knew what they stood for: white supremacy, white power, and nativism. They came ostensibly to protect and promote Confederate history, but took clear aim at African Americans, immigrants, and the civil rights movements of the past and present. While few Asian Americans trace our roots to the Civil War, our history in this nation is deeply intertwined and impacted by white supremacy and nativism. At the turn of the 20th century, white mobs threatened - - and even lynched -- Chinese, Filipino, and South Asian immigrants, in part for fear they would taint (white) American culture. White supremacist groups helped to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act, the rst law to ban an entire ethnic group. And white supremacy birthed “alien land laws”, barring “non-citizens” from owning land at a time when mainly Asians could not become U.S. citizens, and anti-miscegenation laws, prohibiting interracial marriage (a law that in California specically singled out Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and other Asians). White supremacy also paved the way for the U.S. government to violate due process and incarcerate 120,000 Japanese Americans, many U.S. citizens, during World War II -- an action upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Korematsu vs. United States and never formally overturned. Given our history, we as Asian Americans cannot stand idly by and watch as white supremacists march through our neighborhoods. Even before this past weekend, hate crimes were surging upwards, including nearly 200 incidents against Asian Americans since January documented through our hate tracker (StandAgainstHatred.org) and the shooting of two South Asian immigrants, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, in Kansas earlier this year. https://advancingjustice.salsalabs.org/refusewhitesupremacy/index.html 2/5 9/1/2017 Asian Americans Must Refuse to Be Complicit in White Supremacy We as Asian Americans also must not be complicit in the white supremacist agenda of this current administration. White supremacy drives the President’s Muslim bans, seeking to ban entire groups of people based on their national origin and non-Christian religion. It drove last week’s one-two punches from the White House. First, when the President announced his support for the RAISE Act, an immigration bill that would gut the current family-based immigration system, which has brought millions of Asian, African, and Latin American immigrants into the U.S. and remade the racial demographics of the U.S. in the past 50 years. And second, when the White House redirected federal civil rights resources to undo long-standing armative action policies. The administration’s purported claim to be ghting discrimination against Asian Americans ies counter to all other evidence that this administration and its allies and supporters seek to advance only the interests of fellow white Americans. Our nation is at a critical crossroads. White supremacist leaders like David Duke have seized upon Charlottesville as a turning point in moving their hate and nativism mainstream. Without clear and decisive leadership from the President or other administration ocials or Congressional leaders, it falls on all of us to resist white supremacy, including eorts to be co-opted by white supremacists who do not and have never had our communities' interests at heart. We call on all Asian Americans to join us in defending our vision of democracy – one where we protect the vulnerable amongst us, resist efforts to erode our hard-won rights and protections, and fight to advance progress for all marginalized communities. We pledge to challenge rising hate, to ght the President’s Muslim bans, to oppose the RAISE Act and the gutting of armative action, to ght deportations and defend DACA, to champion health care for all, and to ensure all voters can cast their ballots. We cannot do this alone, and we will be calling upon you to join us on the streets, in legislative chambers, and on the steps of the courts to stand up for our democracy. In unity and resistance, Stephanie Cho, Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta Andy Kang, Legal Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago Aarti Kohli, Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - ALC Karin Wang, Vice President of Programs and Communications, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles John Yang, Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC This pledge is a joint action with 18MR.org and we may share signer data with partners. Signatures Show Page of 198 Name: Samantha O Name: Fabian D https://advancingjustice.salsalabs.org/refusewhitesupremacy/index.html 3/5 9/1/2017 Asian Americans Must Refuse to Be Complicit in White Supremacy Name: Gwen D Name: Tana L Name: Marissa S Name: Jason M Name: Beckie M Name: Ken W Name: Mary P Name: Mo Z Name: Emily H Name: Shelley S Name: Yanzie C Name: Lois P Name: Robert Z Name: James T Name: Bo S Name: Lynn F Name: Marie-Therese C.