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America is certainly an exceptional country when it comes to firearms. It’s one of the few countries in which the right to bear arms is constitutionally protected. But the relationship is unique in another crucial way: Among developed nations, the US is far and away the most homicidal in large part due to the easy access many Americans have to firearms.
These maps and charts show what that violence looks like compared with the rest of the world, why it happens, and why it’s such a tough problem to fix.
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To Combat Anti-Asian Hate Crimes, We Have to Call Them What They Are
Discrimination against Asian people in this country has long been minimized, if not outright ignored. Many factors contribute to this erasure, including xenophobia, which casts Asian Americans within the “perpetual foreigner” stereotype people who will never fit into the United States as well as the model-minority myth, which presents all Asian people as “crazy rich,” perfect at academics, aligned with whiteness, and high-achieving with minimal effort.
The model-minority myth is used by many people to assert that if Black and Brown people worked as hard as their model-minority counterparts, then they would be as well off as white people. According to a study published in
In Opinions: Stop Asian Hate is a movement, not a moment
More than 2,800 hate crimes or incidents happened in 2020, and many attribute it to the lack of compassion since COVID-19. Photo by Harry Wyman | The Signal
Delaina Ashley Yaun. Xiaojie Tan. Daoyou Feng. Paul Andre Michels. Hyun Jung Grant. Soon Chung Park. Suncha Kim. Yong Ae Yue. These names are the catalyst for the Stop Asian Hate movement, or are they?
Even though the events on March 16 sent a shockwave through our country, the discrimination Asian communities face continues to be overlooked. It is time to understand the Asian perspective in this country and call out the hate.
Sacrifice zones
April 12, 2021
On April 4, the Hip Hop Caucus, a nonprofit advocacy group that tackles issues relating to health care, education and environmental and social justice, launched a public petition urging Congress to pass legislation that protects communities of color from the health risks posed by environmental degradation. The petition is co-sponsored by several other advocacy groups, including Progress America, Friends of the Earth Action, Coalition on Human Needs, Evergreen Action and the Progressive Reform Network. “Corporate polluters demand human sacrifices,” wrote Mike Phelan, a spokesman for Progress America, in a recent email about the petition. “They each have a choice between profits and pollution – and every time, they choose profits.”