PHOTO CREDIT: CHINESE ASSOCIATION AT STONY BROOK
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, violence and blatant racism toward Asian people has skyrocketed. While people are becoming more aware of the issue, many are left wondering what can be done to support the Asian community.
The Chinese Association at Stony Brook is collaborating with other Asian student organizations like the Korean Student Association and Asian Students Alliance, among others, to raise money for the Hate is a Virus CommUNITY Fund.
While this collaboration has encouraged Asian students especially to support each other at a time where their community is hurting, members of other minority groups are left to determine how they will demonstrate their allyship.
WASHINGTON – It has been over a year since Asian American lawmakers first sounded the alarm on a potential rise in anti-Asian hate and violence amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since then, Stop AAPI Hate, which tracks discrimination against Asian and Pacific Island Americans, said it received more than 3,000 firsthand accounts of anti-Asian American harassment or attacks compared to roughly 100 incidents annually in previous years.
In the beginning, Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., said it was important to condemn the hate incidents, even if it was symbolic. But as the incidents continued to rise, it s time to take it to the next level to make sure that we are using all the tools in our toolbox to help curb this problem, she said.
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Mike Pompeo said that the State Department had highly vetted information that pointed to significant evidence that the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).