EPISODE · May 6, 2020 · 29 MIN
Activist: Racists Stoke Anti-Asian Fears to Divide Us
from Civic · host Laura Wenus, Mel Baker
The anti-Asian racist rhetoric around the coronavirus pandemic is part of a long history of anti-Asian racism in America. Author and activist Helen Zia warns that the surge of violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is likely to worsen as shelter-in-place orders are relaxed, and says as racism is used to sow division, we should come together.
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