Atlanta, New York, Washington … Thousands of Americans demonstrated this weekend against anti-Asian racism, after the deadly shootings at massage parlors in Georgia.
Xing Hua, an Asian American, says she is “very angry” that Tuesday’s bloodshed has yet to be labeled “racist” by police.
“The fact is that six Asian women have died,” denounces the thirty-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 interrogation, he denied any racist motive, presenting himself as a “sex addict” eager to suppress “a temptation”.
“I am not a temptation”, criticizes Kat, 31, on her sign, regretting the hyper-sexualization of Asian women.
“I was accosted by men on dating applications who tell me + I must treat my yellow fever +”, she told AFP.
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 raised hands responded in the affirmative.
Hundreds of people also marched Sunday afternoon in Montreal, Canada, noted an AFP photographer.
“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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