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May 06, 2021
Racial Justice Groups Rip CNN For Giving Cover To Rick Santorum s Racism CNN intrinsically ties itself to a blatantly racist commentator by going silent after his comments about Native Americans, say the groups.
National civil rights and racial justice organizations laid into CNN on Thursday for going silent in response to senior political commentator Rick Santorum’s racist and inaccurate comments about Native Americans.
Santorum, a former Republican senator and presidential candidate, sparked outrage last week after claiming that there was “nothing” in America before white colonizers arrived and that Native American people haven’t contributed much to American culture, anyway.
Russell Jeung knew trouble was ahead for the Asian American community when President Donald Trump labeled SARS-CoV-2 “The China Virus” in early 2020.
“It was deadly. It racialized the virus. It made a biological virus Chinese and stigmatized the people,” said Jeung, a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and founder of Stop AAPI Hate, which tracks COVID-19-related discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. “It made Chinese people disease carriers.”
What followed was all too predictable. The rise of racism, harassment, and violent hate crimes against Asian American has became so pronounced that a new survey shows members of the group are more worried about the possibility of being a victim of pandemic-related racism than the virus itself, Jeung said at an online discussion on the topic on Friday by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Juliet K. Choi, president and CEO of the
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, released the following statement: In their first 100 days in office, President
Joe Biden and Vice President
Kamala Harris have reversed an inventory of harmful policies against Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders; extended and strengthened the Affordable Care Act; and invested in hard working families and communities of color with the American Rescue Plan, which notably includes a
$10 billion investment to expand COVID-19 vaccines for communities of color and underserved populations. We are thankful for
President Biden and Vice President Harris decisive and thoughtful leadership to guide our nation through this devasting pandemic. We are encouraged by their commitment and invitation to work through consensus, urging
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