Day 30. With Racist Violence on the Rise, Asian American UUs Turn to Community for Support.

“Hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders rose by almost 150 percent in America’s largest cities in 2020, according to a study by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. The surge was fueled by racist rhetoric from former President Donald Trump and others that sought to blame China for the coronavirus pandemic, which was first identified in the city of Wuhan in late 2019. And on March 16, 2021, a white man who claimed to be suffering from a “sex addiction” shot and killed eight people, six of whom were women of Asian descent, at spas in the Atlanta area.”

“The Zoom group of about twelve to fifteen people now meets on the second Tuesday of every month. They usually have a mix of regulars and people who drop in occasionally, according to Kate Goka, who sits on the steering committee of DRUUMM’s Asian Pacific Islander Caucus.”

“People who are interested in joining the coffee hour can RSVP at info@druumm.org.”

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