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It feels like that people are showing hate for Asian Americans because they are taught to hate them and that past generation told their children that Asians are bad. In the video it also says that it was mostly people who are black and I think its because they want people focusing on more BLM instead of the Asian hate, but that is just in my opinion. Also as they said in the video I think it's because of Donald Trump because he was the one who said the China virus when actually the virus is racism.

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Eight people, six of them Asian women, were killed Tuesday night in three shootings by a single gunman at spas across the Atlanta area. The shootings have sent shock waves throughout the country, especially in the Asian community, which has been reeling from an apparent surge in racist violence that coincided with the start of the coronavirus pandemic a year ago.

So far, authorities have released the names of those killed in the first shooting at Young's Asian Massage spa in Acworth, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta: Xiaojie Tan, 49, of Kennesaw; Daoyou Feng, 44; Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez, 33, of Acworth; and Paul Andre Michels, 54, of Atlanta. At a press conference Wednesday, a Cherokee County Sheriff's Office official said two of those killed were of Asian descent and two of the dead were white. Elcias R. Hernandez-Ortiz, 30, sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

Officials have not yet publicly identified those slain in a pair of spas in Atlanta.

Meanwhile, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday that its diplomats in Atlanta have confirmed from police that four of the victims who died were women of Korean descent.

Here is what is known so far about the deceased.

Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez, 33

Yaun was the mother of a 14-year-old son and an 8-month-old daughter, according to her younger sister who described her as outgoing and family-oriented in an interview with The Daily Beast. Yaun had worked at the Waffle House just a few stores down from Young's Assian Massage spa since 2013, according to Buzzfeed News. On Tuesday, Yaun went to the spa with her husband of less than a year, said Dana Toole, Yaun's 29-year-old sister.

"[Yaun's daughter] is not even going to get to know her mom," she said, adding that she believes it was the couple's first time at the massage parlor. "How do you explain that?"

Yaun's husband, Mario González, was not injured according to Fox News Atlanta. Her family has set up a fundraiser to help cover her funeral expenses.

Paul Andre Michels, 54

Michels was a local business owner who had been married for over two decades, according to The Daily Beast. Family members described him as a hardworking Army veteran who owned an electric company. John Michels, his 52-year-old brother, who lives in Michigan, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday that his brother was interested in "getting in the massage business" and was looking to owning establishments.

"I'm mad, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy," Kikiana Whidby told CBS about Paul Michels, who is the godfather to her son. She adds that Michels was doing handy work for the Acworth Spa when the shooting took place.

Xiaojie Tan, 49

Xiaojie Tan owned Young's Asian Massage and at least one other spa, according to The Daily Beast. Tan is a licensed massage therapist, according to NBC News.

Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, 30

Hernandez-Ortiz's wife, Flor Gonzalez, told the New York Times he called her after being wounded by the gunman steps away from Young's Asian Massage. "I've been shot!" she recalled him saying. "Please come." She said her husband has been hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds, including one in his forehead. Hernandez-Ortiz, a mechanic, immigrated from Guatemala 10 years ago and the two have been married as long.

"He's still alive, he's fighting for his life," Gonzales told the Times. "But the doctors told me that he will have a long recovery after he leaves the hospital."

She added through tears: "Many others died, and my heart breaks for them. Whoever did this is not human."
This is a developing story.

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These Are the Victims of the Atlanta Spa Shootings

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Eight people, six of them Asian women, were killed Tuesday night in three shootings by a single gunman at spas across the Atlanta area. The shootings have sent shock waves throughout the country, especially in the Asian community, which has been reeling from an apparent surge in racist violence that coincided with the start of the coronavirus pandemic a year ago.

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You may be wondering what you can do to help the Asian and Asian-American communities, amid an ongoing wave of attacks against Asian Americans that coincided with the spread of the coronavirus across the U.S.

Authorities arrested a man who they say is suspected of stabbing two Asian women without warning in downtown San Francisco in May. In another recent incident, two Asian women were attacked in New York City by a stranger who demanded they remove their masks before striking one in the head with a hammer, police said.

And eight people - most of them women of Asian descent - were killed in March in three shootings at Atlanta-area spas.

Stop AAPI Hate, a group that tracks acts of discrimination and xenophobia against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, found nearly 3,800 incidents of hate, discrimination or attacks on Asian Americans from March 2020 through February 2021.

The Senate passed with overwhelming bipartisan support a hate crimes bill to address a drastic increase in violence and discrimination directed at Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here are some key ways you can aid the communities, from donating to organizing.

Where to donate to help Asian communities, and how to organize

A host of organizations could use your donations, including but not limited to:

New York Magazine has a list of over 50 ways you can support the Asian communities.

Read before you share resources. As is typical with social media, many people share social posts on platforms like Instagram and Twitter offering statistics, resources and places to donate. Make sure the posts you're sharing are rooted in facts, because even the most well-intentioned person could spread misinformation. Also consider whether groups are advocating for unity between minority groups, like Black and Asian people.

Learn how to organize. Actor Daniel Dae Kim told USA TODAY in March that a lot can happen on a local level: "We need to be able to contact our local (district attorneys) and the Department of Justice to discuss how we can deter (these crimes) and how we can prosecute them properly. There's a lot we can do to foster understanding among communities. There are many community groups that have been created out of the ashes of this, like Compassion in Oakland, where they're escorting Asian-American elders from place to place so that they feel safe."

Not everyone believes further law enforcement and policing are the answers, however.

"We cannot conflate police and incarceration with justice or public safety," writer Sam Lew said in online magazine The Bold Italic. They do not keep us or our elders safe, even as much as we wish they could.

Reach out to your Asian friends and colleagues - but don't ask them to educate you

Anti-Asian racism, like any form of racism, isn't new.

Read up on the history of and present day anti-Asian racism in the U.S. This can be done through news articles. Consider documentaries and news programs that feature information on the subject. Netflix's " Amend" touches on anti-Asian history in its sixth episode. Consider reading books by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors, too.

"The Real" host Jeannie Mai told USA TODAY in February she doesn't think white Americans are educated enough about Asian history or culture.

"I don't think our school system is catered around educating us what we really need to know," she said.

Remember that racism can be unlearned. Mai added: "Racism is taught. And it may not be your parents sitting you down telling you specifically like, 'Don't trust those Asians. Don't be friends with Black people.' No, I think it's in every grain of your upbringing."

In order to unlearn racism, you need to question your own privileges, take a look at the media you consume and accept the fact you will make mistakes. Also, apologize and own up to your mistakes.

Margaret Cho, in a recent NBC News segment, said there is room for improvement when it comes to Asian representation in entertainment.

"Just now, we're starting to see more Asian Americans in TV shows, in movies, but on a very peripheral basis," she said. "And it's not exactly a stereotype, but we're not all super rich and we're not all crazy rich. It's not all 'Bling Empire,' which, I love those shows and movies, but at the same time, it enforces this narrative that we are untouchable and invisible, which is kind of a volatile combination when it comes to violence."

Movies like "Minari," "Raya and the Last Dragon" and "Boogie" feature different types of portrayals.

Sometimes your first instinct may not be the best instinct when reaching out to friends or colleagues. CNBC's "Make It" has a helpful tips for those looking for guidance in the workplace.

One key point: Don't ask "How are you feeling?" or "Is there anything I can do for you?" as this puts the onus on them. Consultant and author Kim Tran suggests saying something more like: "I know the news is stressful. Can I help you with anything workwise?"

What to do if you see anti-Asian racism

Get proper training. Hollaback!, an organization working to end harassment, is working with Asian Americans Advancing Justice on free bystander intervention training geared to aiding the Asian and Asian American communities. You can sign up here for that as well as conflict de-escalation training.

Follow safety tips. Stop AAPI Hate recommends these five safety steps if you are a witness to anti-Asian racism:

Take action. Go to the targeted person and offer support.

Actively listen. Before you do anything, ask - and then respect the targeted person's response. If need be, keep an eye on the situation.

Ignore attacker. Try using your voice, body language or distractions to de-escalate the situation (though use your judgment).

Accompany. Ask the targeted person to leave with you if whatever is going on escalates.

Offer emotional support. Find out how the targeted person is feeling and help them determine what to do next.

Contributing: USA TODAY staff and The Associated Press

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There's been a rise in anti-Asian attacks. Here's how to be an ally to the community.

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You may be wondering what you can do to help the Asian and Asian-American communities, amid an ongoing wave of attacks against Asian Americans that coincided with the spread of the coronavirus across the U.S. Authorities arrested a man who they say is suspected of stabbing two Asian women without warning in downtown San Francisco in May.

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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there's been a significant uptick in violence against Asians and Asian Americans. The organization Stop AAPI Hate collected more than 2,800 reports of verbal abuse, harassment, and physical assaults against Asians in the United States from March to December 2020. These reports depict a disturbing reality, especially for Asian women, who experienced violence nearly 2.5 times more than their male counterparts. However, the numbers do not tell the full story: They don't include many of the unreported and increasingly normalized incidents of violence that started as soon as the Trump administration began to unapologetically characterize the global pandemic as the "Chinese virus." Since then, Asians and Asian Americans have shared countless accounts with one another, privately describing the challenges of everyday life in the U.S.

As an example, early last March, my aunt came home from the grocery store visibly upset. She explained that she had been chased out of a local Bay Area supermarket by another shopper because he insisted that she was carrying the virus. My uncle then suggested that perhaps dying his hair blonde could save him from the anti-Asian harassment.

These stories are painful, but they are also part of a larger, and often dismissed, history of violence. In addition to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the assaults against Filipino farmworkers in the 1930s by white mobs, and the Japanese internment camps of the 1940s, there's a longstanding history of racialized colonial wars that shaped our communities' histories before we even arrived to the United States.

As a Vietnamese woman born in Oakland, California, I was never taught about the effects of the Viet Nam War or how, in the aftermath, refugees and immigrants spent indefinite amounts of time in various camps across the globe. I didn't know about the estimated two million civilians and more than one million Vietnamese soldiers who were killed. I did not understand the enduring impacts of the chemical Agent Orange, which U.S. troops used during the war, until I visited my mother's homeland in the early 2000s. And it wasn't until later that I learned about the massacres or the racist characterizations of Vietnamese people used to legitimize millions of deaths. It was then that I also learned about the anti-war protests across the globe, including those led by Black civil rights leaders, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Angela Davis, and Muhammad Ali. These leaders also fought hard for our rights as new immigrants and children of immigrants in the United States.

Fortunately, I've been able to seek out knowledge and learn directly from Asian American leaders, including Yuri Kochiyama, a Japanese internment camp survivor who was friends with civil rights leader Malcolm X. She spent much of her life highlighting the issues impacting Asians and Asian Americans and in racial solidarity to end police violence and systemic racism against Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color.

The myth that we have not been impacted by white supremacy also ignores our diverse communities' experiences with Islamophobia and anti-South Asian violence, especially post-9/11. It dismisses the lived realities of and and Asian Americans, as well as our . And it often fails to account for the experiences of our Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander counterparts, whose stories are often conflated with that of Asians in the category of API, Asian Pacific Islanders. Yet, with all of these ongoing needs, less than one percent of philanthropicfunding goes to our communities.

But instead of this support, Asian communities are being scapegoated for the virus.

I've asked community ambassadors and organizers in Oakland, who know our neighborhoods intimately, what they think about the recent incidents of assault and harassment. They shared that the violence is much more systemic than what's on the news: It's about poverty, the impacts of gentrification, including displacement and houselessness, racial profiling, mental health needs, limited health care, and other social services. But instead of this support, Asian communities are being scapegoated for the virus.

We've been hurting for a long time, and we've been working to create solutions for just as long. Now, finally, our stories are getting some attention. Hopefully, resources will come next.

Regardless, this moment is a reminder to build together, to continue to share our stories, to provide resources, to help one another address immediate needs and create long-lasting change. Our lives depend on it-and each other.

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Ignoring the History of Anti-Asian Racism Is Another Form of Violence

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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there's been a significant uptick in violence against Asians and Asian Americans. The organization Stop AAPI Hate collected more than 2,800 reports of verbal abuse, harassment, and physical assaults against Asians in the United States from March to December 2020.

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UPDATE: On Tuesday, March 16, a 21-year-old man allegedly shot and killed eight people including six Asian women at spas across the Atlanta metro area. Though police have said motive is not yet known, though many suspect these were racially motivated shootings. More information is available here.
A recent string of attacks on elderly Asian Americans has brought attention to the rise of violence and harassment of Asian Americans. Just since the pandemic began, more than 3,000 anti-Asian "hate incidents" have been reported in the U.S., according to the group Stop AAPI Hate.

Some attackers looking for someone to blame for the coronavirus pandemic may partly explain the rise of violence against Asian Americans and highlights the long history of blame and scapegoating of Asian Americans in America.

"I was part of a very similar time in the 1980s, when a Chinese American man named Vincent Chin was killed in Detroit because Japan was being blamed for the economic crisis in America," Helen Zia, activist, author and former journalist stated.

It's a fog of terror, quite honestly, of, when people walk out the door, they don't know if they're going to get attacked and from where they're going to get attacked, right?," said Amanda Nguyen, social entrepreneur and civil rights activist and CEO and founder of Rise, a nongovernmental civil rights organization. Nguyen said she doesn't think mainstream media is covering the attacks on Asian Americans and has turned to social media instead.

Five Facts

Who is this story addressing?

What is one effect of this violence?

Where are these recent attacks happening?

When did this issue get worse and why according to some experts?

How does this story illuminate broader issues of hate crime in the country?

Focus Questions

The hatred and violence directed toward Asian Americans comes from an ignorance of history, according to Helen Zia, including the genocide of indigenous people in the U.S. and systemic racism.

What are important measures each of us can take to combat ignorance in ourselves and others close to us?

What are necessary steps our country needs to take on a national level to combat racism, xenophobia and all forms of hate?

Media literacy: There has not been a lot of mainstream media coverage on these attacks against Asian Americans, according to Amanda Nguyen, including the upward trend of violence since the pandemic began. Why do you think this is?

For More

1. Read and discuss this article on how to address the surge of anti-Asian hate crimes.

2. Learn more about Asian American history in the U.S. with lesson plan, and examine how the attack on Pearl Harbor led to xenophobia against Asian Americans similar to what the coronavirus has caused.

3. Check out lesson plan to examine how different groups of people have been affected differently by the coronavirus.

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Asian Americans face a wave of discrimination during the pandemic - PBS NewsHour Classroom

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UPDATE: On Tuesday, March 16, a 21-year-old man allegedly shot and killed eight people including six Asian women at spas across the Atlanta metro area. Though police have said motive is not yet known, though many suspect these were racially motivated shootings. More information is available here .

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I honestly feel like they shouldn’t be hating on Asian for things that they haven’t even done. It’s very unnecessary for them to say racial slurs and mocking them by pulling their eyes back and other things and it’s honestly very sad like the video said it was some black people doing this to them but when it was the black life matter movement Asian where there helping them spread awareness to stop black hate.And as community we shouldn’t be hating on any race we should stick together and end racism.

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As a community we should make Asians feel safe and not disregard them and make excuses like it wasn't a hate crime. And actually take a step and do something to try and fix this because its not okay.

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As a community we should make Asians feel safe and not disregard them and make excuses like it wasn't a hate crime. And actually take a step and do something to try and fix this because its not okay.

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I am feeling outraged that people are putting their anger of covid on the asian community. As a society something we can do to stop this are inform people on this and why it is bad. We can also hold protest and organizations to share this with the world.

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One thing I feel that should be dont is showing hate for asian americans is wrong by showing scientific proof

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As a community, we should protect elderly asian americans from the racism they are facing. 

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As a community, we should protect elderly asian americans from the racism they are facing. 

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I’m Asian and this isn’t right. Why would they do that. I can probably protest? We can tell people to stop

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As a community we should not hate and discriminate against asians

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As a community we should not hate and discriminate against asians

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I feel these attacks are false on attacking all Asians. I also think it is injurious to our goal of stopping COVID-19.

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I feel these attacks are false on attacking all Asians. I also think it is injurious to our goal of stopping COVID-19.

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I feel disappointed with society on how were are treating everyone based of their race. And i think we should unite and all be one

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I feel like these attacks are unnecessary, people are hating on others just because of there skin color or race.

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I feel like these attacks are unnecessary, people are hating on others just because of there skin color or race.

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I feel that these attacks are very unnecessary. They are still just humans like the rest of us and just because of their race it should not change anything. Everybody as a community should treat everybody the same.

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I am wondering how and why people are treated differently because of their race. I know that this has been going on for a long time but it is very serious and it is getting worse and worse.

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Vrithika- I feel that the hatred towards Asian Americans (or marginalised groups in general) is very unnecessary and should be stopped.

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Vrithika- I feel that the hatred towards Asian Americans (or marginalised groups in general) is very unnecessary and should be stopped.

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As a nation we should all treat everyone the same and feel protected by one another

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I think these attacks is are very unfair. Just because a group of people messed up, does not give other the right to blame the whole community for it

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miles- we should make Asians feel more safe and not put out our anger about COVID-19 on them.

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I feel sad and angry about these attacks because people are scared to even go outside, because they might get attacked.

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I feel like there's no point of
fighting each other over the color of the skin or the race of who you are.