Column: If the mass killing of six Asian women isn't a hate crime, what is?
by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times
Mar 19, 2021
3 minutes
If anyone was still "uneducated" about the insidious and brutal nature of racism in this country, the recent contemptible slaughter of eight people, including six Asian women, in the Atlanta area, along with the early police statements and media coverage of the crime, should clear everything right up.
On Tuesday, eight people were killed and others wounded at three day spas in the Atlanta area. Police apprehended Robert Aaron Long, who officers said later admitted that he was responsible.
Speaking to the press, Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds, who is white, said that despite
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