Reeling from a depressed economy and increased crime, Oakland Chinatown enters city s policing debate
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Armed security members from Goliath Protection Group, contracted and funded by a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign, patrol on Webster Street in the Chinatown district of Oakland, California Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.Photos by Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of7A grocery worker, right, passes a bundle of fresh longan to a woman in the Chinatown district of Oakland, California Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Community members are on heightened alert after the recent increase in violent crimes, many caught on camera, toward the Asian American community throughout the Bay Area. Despite an increased police presence, armed private security, and volunteer groups patrolling the area around Oakland Chinatown, many businesses continue to worry and are taking extra precautionary measures such as boarding up storefronts and closing hours earlier despite how the pan
Bay Area Communities Rally Against Anti-Asian Violence
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Participants in the San Francisco event, held on Feb. 14 at the Civic Center. (Chinese for Affirmative Action)
SAN FRANCISCO In response to the recent surge in COVID-19-related violence against Asian American communities throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area, the Coalition for Community Safety and Justice (CCSJ) in San Francisco joined forces with a coalition of organizations in Oakland to organize two parallel Days of Action, both entitled “Love Our People, Heal Our Communities.”
On the first weekend of the Lunar New Year (Feb. 13-14), and a few days after more than 70 Asian American organizations issued a press statement condemning the violence, these two events brought together a multiracial and multigenerational coalition to stand against racism, xenophobia, and violence, and to offer space for healing the grief and pain that Asian communities feel in light of recent events.
Ex-Gang Member Threatens To Kill Asians on Social Media, Arrested by Police
On 2/24/21 at 7:32 AM EST
A former gang member from Berkeley, California, has reportedly been arrested over hate crimes after posting threatening messages about Asians online.
The Oakland Police Department said a Berkeley man was taken into custody after social media partners alerted them to disturbing messages directed at Asian communities online.
Reginald Jackson, who police flagged as a gang member in previous investigations, shared a series of now-deleted and private posts on Twitter and Instagram that included references to beating up, robbing and blowing up Asians, according to ABC 7.
Asian American demonstrators rally for Huey P. Newton s release in 1969. (Courtesy of Roz Payne)
on February 17, 2021
Dr. Beverly Tatum’s watershed psychological analysis on race offers words that ring as saliently today as they did in 1997: “In terms of intergroup relations, the myth of the model minority has served to pit Asian Americans against other groups targeted by racism. The accusing message of the dominant society to Blacks, Latinxs, and Native Americans is, ‘They overcame discrimination why can’t you?’”
Asians have been described by sociologists as a racial wedge used to depict non-White groups as having cultural flaws that have led to their societal ills. Indeed, the model minority myth, while addressed more explicitly in recent movements, still has yet to be interrogated in its more insidious manifestations.