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As awareness of anti-Asian hate is on the rise, members of Asian communities in North Carolina are looking to gain visibility for their voices and needs.
Mario Benevente, a member of the Korean community in Fayetteville, said there were inaccurate perceptions of Asian Americans before the pandemic. One such myth portrays the group as a model minority that doesn t complain about prejudices because its members are successful, he said. I think more and more with what we saw over the time that COVID really started coming in and the name that they were kind of calling it, and then certainly, with the most recent hyper-violent stuff that happened in Atlanta, and elsewhere in California, it s all part of the same sort of ugliness, it s all come from the same place,
Advocates respond to recent rise in violence against Asian American community dailytarheel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailytarheel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
North Carolina s Asian communities are on high alert as reports of Anti-Asian hate crimes surface nationwide. Grief and frustration. It s a frustration for a lack of visibility, said Ricky Leung, senior director of programs at North Carolina Asian Americans Together. A lot of times we re only visible when there are acts of violence.
NCAAT is the only Pan-Asian social justice organization statewide. Organizers say this kind of violence is not new. It s an ongoing issue rooted in systemic racism. Leung believes the former administration didn t make things easier. Policies and rhetoric that were anti-immigrant blamed a lot of the outbreak of the coronavirus on China and Chinese Americans, said Leung.