RING THE BELL AGAINST HATE

SINCE THE BEGINNING OF the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a sharp and alarming rise in hate-fueled attacks against Asian Americans—up as much as 1,900 percent in 2020, not even including attacks that went unreported.

Being yelled at to “go back where you came from” or called racial epithets is disturbing, but honestly nothing new for many Asian Americans like me who have, frankly, heard it all before. But we have been left reeling by graphic videos of elderly members of our community—people who could be our parents or grandparents—being physically assaulted in attacks that have ended in injury, disfigurement, and death. And we are still mourning the deaths of eight people—six of them Asian American women targeted at their places of work—in the March 16 mass shootings in Atlanta.

Anti-Asian discrimination is not new. We have a long, shared history of people