(D block) The Long Legacy of Anti-Asian Racism in the US by Kathryn Reusch https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax Please write the quote that you chose (in quotation marks). You don't have to put your name. Make at least 2 thoughtful comments on other people's quotation posts. Please put your initials in parentheses at the end of your comment. en-us 2021-03-19 01:26:58 UTC 2021-03-20 00:35:57 UTC hello@padlet.com “Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did.” hdoherty2022 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330296968 2021-03-19 15:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330296968 “This mass shooter was targeting Asian women and their businesses. This isn’t an isolated incident. There have been 500+ hate crimes targeted at Asian people this year alone,” https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330308717 2021-03-19 15:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330308717 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330313416 "Since the start of the pandemic last spring, Asian Americans have faced racist violence at a much higher rate than in previous years. "]]> 2021-03-19 15:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330313416 dwalsh2022 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330314359 Daniel Dae Kim and Daniel Wu shared on Twitter a video of a 91-year-old man being pushed down in Oakland, Calif., Chinatown.]]> 2021-03-19 15:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330314359 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330315190 "Yet while racial violence has been an undeniable part of the history of Asian Americans in the U.S., the pervasive “model minority” myth has helped to obscure it."]]> 2021-03-19 15:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330315190 cworthley2022 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330316680 “There’s a clear correlation between President Trump’s incendiary comments, his insistence on using the term Chinese virus, and the subsequent hate speech spread on social media and the hate violence directed toward us”]]> 2021-03-19 15:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330316680 preming2022 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330318577  Stop AAPI Hate, a reporting database created at the beginning of the pandemic as a response to the increase in racial violence, received 3,795 reports of anti-Asian discrimination between March 19, 2020, and Feb. 28, 2021; women reported hate incidents at 2.3 times the rate of men.]]> 2021-03-19 15:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330318577 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330319540 "The brutality runs through more than two centuries of U.S. history, from the incarceration camps of World War II, when over 100,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up and imprisoned because of xenophobic fears, to the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin, who died after being beaten by white men in a racially motivated attack in Detroit."]]> 2021-03-19 15:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330319540 "There have been 500+ hate crimes targeted at Asian people this year alone." rjohnson20221 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330319662 2021-03-19 15:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330319662 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330343179 "In the dissonance was confirmation of what many Asian Americans already knew: the violence that has long targeted their community is rarely seen for what it is."]]> 2021-03-19 15:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330343179 "Rather than turning to additional policing, community leaders have stressed the importance of grassroots organizing at this time, as well as the need for cross-community solidarity. 'We know that this is an issue that affects all our communities, and we have to break the cycle of violence,' says Jeung, the Stop AAPI Hate co-founder." dpatel20222 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330485787 2021-03-19 16:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330485787 “Atlanta shooting suspect told investigators that killings of Asian women weren’t racially motivated, police say,” dwachtel2022 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330514839 2021-03-19 16:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330514839 “Additional policing doesn’t pose a threat just to Black and brown communities; people of Asian descent have also suffered disproportionately at the hands of law enforcement.” wspellman2022 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330516353 2021-03-19 16:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330516353 “Yet while racial violence has been an undeniable part of the history of Asian Americans in the U.S., the pervasive “model minority” myth has helped to obscure it. That false idea, constructed during the civil rights era to stymie racial-justice movements, suggests that Asian Americans are more successful than other ethnic minorities because of hard work, education and inherently law-abiding natures.” https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330517351 2021-03-19 16:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330517351 glittlewood2022 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330529960 "The current surge in anti-Asian hate crimes was exacerbated by the xenophobic rhetoric of former President Donald Trump, who has continued to refer to COVID-19 as “the China virus,” blaming the country for the pandemic."]]> 2021-03-19 16:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330529960 “Trump’s choice of words followed a long American history of using diseases to justify anti-Asian xenophobia–one that has helped to shape perception of Asian Americans as “perpetual foreigners.” https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330582252 2021-03-19 16:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330582252 Ending anti-Asian racism in the U.S. means confronting centuries of discrimination, violence and oppression, and recognizing how it manifests in the present day. As Au noted in her statements this week, “This is a new chapter in a very old story.” In order to write a new story, we have to acknowledge the ugly past that brought us here. https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330599070 2021-03-19 16:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330599070 ncoiscou2022 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330622649 former President Donald Trump frequently called “the China virus," “the Wuhan virus,” and the “Kung Flu.”]]> 2021-03-19 16:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330622649 The “yellow peril” ultimately led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first time the U.S. had ever barred a specific ethnic group from the country. The brutality runs through more than two centuries of U.S. history. tthomas20221 https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330648597 2021-03-19 16:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kathrynreusch/zpdepiipos9cfwax/wish/1330648597