We are shaken by the violence in our city that has left 8 ppl dead, including members of the Asian American community. We are gathering info about what happened & the needs of directly impacted are. Now is the time to hold the victims & their families in our hearts & with light pic.twitter.com/Hft5H7IZNW
— AdvancingJusticeATL (@AAAJ_Atlanta) March 17, 2021
I want to know their names, who and what they loved, the people they had waiting for them at home, everything they hoped for. I want to know the fabric of their days and the contexts of their lives.
— kat chow (@katchow) March 17, 2021
"Racism against AAPI Americans is not new.
— Dr. Michelle Au (@AuforGA) March 15, 2021
Otherization of AAPI Americans is not new.
But the motto of the United States is E Pluribus Unum: 'Out of many, one.'
Asian-Americans are part of our country’s plurality.
We are some of the many, and we’re part of that one."#gapol pic.twitter.com/o2lzNb4iIy
In less than 48 hours, we had a historic Asian Oscar moment with multiple firsts in 93 years—then a mass shooting targeting 3 Asian-owned businesses. This is how terrorism works—you’re not allowed to feel safe, accepted, or valued. We can resist. Take up space. Make noise.
— Min Jin Lee (@minjinlee11) March 17, 2021
Last night's shooting & the appalling rise of anti-Asian violence stem frm a sick society where nationalism has again been stoked & normalized. Anti-Black & anti-Asian racism & violence run in tandem in the U.S. Both grps were brought here for labor but never meant to be citizens
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021
Even as this country was recruiting Chinese men to come do the labor white workers would not, they barred Chinese w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021Then this nation passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to prohibit Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S. altoget… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021We had to get an amendment to the Constitution to guarantee Black Americans citizenship in their own country, and C… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021If you look at racial real estate covenants -- provisions placed on homes that restricted ownership by race -- they… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021And, of course, during World War II, Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps but German Americans were n… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act and explicitly racist immigration policy, the Asian population in the United S… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021And what has followed -- in reaction to the Civil Rights Movement and Black demands to dismantle white supremacy --… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021But the truth is that Asian Americans are only held up as a model to justify inequality and injustice visited upon… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021I stand with my Asian-American brothers and sisters, just as so many of you have stood with us. I grieve. We must o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021The reported shootings of Asian American women on Tuesday in Atlanta is an unspeakable tragedy – for the families of the victims first and foremost, but also for the AAPI community — which has been reeling from high levels of racial discrimination. https://t.co/rBVPnrEBps
— Stop AAPI Hate (@StopAAPIHate) March 17, 2021
A statement from the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum makes the important point of how anti-Asian violence disproportionately impact women #StopAsianHate pic.twitter.com/npEpv31Oy1
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 17, 2021
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