TACOMA, Wash. – On Tuesday, the Tacoma City Council adopted Resolution 40763 – brought forward by Mayor Victoria Woodards and Council Members Robert Thoms and Catherine Ushka – denouncing anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander sentiment due to fears of the COVID-19 pandemic. The resolution affirms the City of Tacoma’s commitment to the well-being and safety of Asian-American communities.
“We express our deepest sympathies, and stand in solidarity with the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community in condemning and denouncing the alarming rise in hate crimes targeting Asian-American and Pacific Islanders throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Mayor Woodards. “No matter what challenges we face, we are stronger when we face those challenges together. By adopting this resolution, the City Council and I reaffirm our commitment to providing a safe and welcoming environment for all Tacoma community members and visitors.”
In June 2020, the Tacoma City Council passed Resolution 40622. This resolution formally acknowledges that the City of Tacoma’s existing systems have not adequately served the needs of everyone in our community and, in particular, have not adequately served the needs of Black community members and other community members of color.
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Norman Wagemann says
I have read the city mayor and city council’s resolution 40622 which is a thorough “confession” of failure, on their part, to bring any “meaningful” change in over a decade of “trying.” Consequently, if the mayor and city council are “honorable” people they should resign immediately and let others with better and more realistic ideologies take over. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr would be appalled by the actions of this group who only see color of one’s skin and have not a clue how to enhance the character of the individuals heart. It is our of the heart that either hate or love (the term they used in their resolution) immerge. And until you develop a program(s) that speaks to changing the hearts of people, you can continue to pass resolutions and as all the other programs and policies you have identified in your resolution that have obviously “FAILED,” this one will have no effect either. You should be ashamed of yourselves and do the honorable thing and resign.
John Arbeeny says
Indeed! Why would anyone trust those who are self admittedly racists, according to critical race theory, to be the ones now suddenly “woke” to solve the alleged problems they’ve created and allowed to continue? Irony of ironies! Critical race theory is itself racist: content of melanin is more important that the content of character for them. 1619 Project supporters? So the USA was founded on racism and slavery and you believe that? Really? And I’ll bet they also believe in “diversity, inclusion and equity”, the new religion of the “woke”; the new holy Trinity as it were for them. This is what happens when there is a vacuum of values in our elected officials. When you believe in nothing anything will fill that space. Nature abhors a vacuum! This leftist propaganda should disqualify any supporter on the city council, school district or any other elected representative office from ever holding office. It is the antithesis of our Country’s values as contained in the Declaration of Independence. Race is only important to racists!
Norman Wagemann says
Correction to my previous comment. I discovered a typo. it should read, “…out of the heart….” not “…our of the heart….”
Thank you
John Arbeeny says
The violence against Asians narrative of the left is that it’s white people who are to blame……….as though confirming critical race theory. Unfortunately despite what leftists believe it isn’t so. Take a look at this article. Conclusion: racists come in many colors.
“For many Americans, a 21-year-old white man has become the face of anti-Asian violence that has swept the country over the past year. That impression may be misleading. In New York City, where anti-Asian hate crime soared nearly nine-fold in 2020 over the year before, only two of the 20 people arrested last year in connection with these attacks were white, according to New York Police Department data analyzed by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. Eleven were African Americans, six were white Hispanics and one was a Black Hispanic. “I thought it was jarring,” said Brian Levin, executive director of the center, noting that the finding runs counter to assumptions made by many that perpetrators of anti-Asian hate are mostly angry white men who blame China for the COVID-19 pandemic.”
www.voanews.com/usa/anti-asian-hate-crime-crosses-racial-and-ethnic-lines
Well, well, well: so much for the benefits of “diversity”. The perpetrators of these racist “hate crimes” were10% white; 55% black; 30% white Hispanics; 5% black Hispanic. So apparently it is possible for Blacks and Hispanics to be racists…………..whites not so much in this case. But I thought according to critical race theory……….the new religion of the left and their lackeys……that only whites were racists. Only goes to show that racists come in many colors.