After the deadly shootings in massage parlors in Georgia, the Asian community is determined not to let go of the rejection it suffers. Thousands of Americans demonstrated Saturday and Sunday, in Atlanta, New York and Washington, against anti-Asian racism.
During one of these demonstrations, Xing Hua, an Asian American, said she was “very angry” that the March 16 bloodshed had not yet been described as “racist” by the police. “The fact is that six Asian women have died,” denounced the 30-something in Washington, the capital of the United States, where several hundred demonstrators gathered on Sunday.
Arrested Tuesday after opening fire in three Asian massage parlors in Atlanta and its suburbs, Robert Aaron Long admitted the facts and was charged with murder. During his questioning, however, he denied any racist motive, presenting himself as a “sex addict” wishing to remove “a temptation”. “I am not a temptation”, blasted Kat, 31, on her placard, regretting the hypersexualization of Asian women. “I’ve been accosted by men on dating apps who tell me ‘I need to cure my yellow fever’,” she said.
Demonstrations also in Canada
In New York, the city’s mayoral candidate and ex-contender for the Democratic presidential primary Andrew Yang, son of Taiwanese immigrants, on Sunday called on protesters to raise their hands if they had felt an upsurge in acts racist since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a virus that Donald Trump has repeatedly called the “Chinese plague”. Hundreds of hands raised then responded in the affirmative.
Demonstrations have also taken place outside the United States. Hundreds of people marched Sunday afternoon in Montreal, Canada. “We are demonstrating against years of anti-Asian racism, fomented by a white supremacist president in the United States who insisted on labeling the virus as the Chinese virus, which has encouraged hatred and attacks against all kinds of oppressed minorities” , said of Donald Trump, May Chiu, of the Chinese progressive group of Quebec, and organizer of the march.
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