After a year of the COVID pandemic and its adverse consequences, racism has made its way into the crisis. Attacks on Asians and Pacific Islanders are up all over the country as hate has caused some to blame Asians for the pandemic.
In this edition of Northwest Now we’ll take a closer look at local and national attacks on Asians and Pacific Islanders and what’s being done to stop these hate crimes.
Northwest Now is a weekly public affairs program that airs Friday at 7:30 p.m. on KBTC Public Television, a service of Bates Technical College. You can visit our website to watch past episodes and learn more about our show.
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Originally posted on the Bates Technical College’s Blog.
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.