Not much has changed over the last year, but how can we care and respond for our AAPI brothers and sisters who are hurting? How can we affirm the dignity of our fellow image-bearers?
Don t leave the house, not even to check the mail, said one husband. Don t check the mail until I get home, I ll bring a gun to keep us safe, said another husband. I am too afraid to go to my local [Korean] market, said one mother. I canceled my mother/daughter date to the [Korean] spa, said another mother. I m too scared to leave my house, said one Asian gender-fluid person. It hurts; it hurts because only my fellow Asians reached out to me, said a Korean woman.
These are six quotes from six Asian Americans in Central Texas in the aftermath of the Georgia murders of six Asian women and two other people.