Several dozen people attended a rally against Asian-hate at Village Green Park in Garden Grove on Sunday afternoon, March 21, as multiple crimes against Asian Americans have gained notoriety recently throughout the nation.
Various advocacy groups for racial justice in minority communities aligned to decry anti-Asian sentiments and hate crimes against Asian Americans that have played out across the country since 2020, said rally contributor Koko Dodson with Minorities Make America.
Police in several major cities saw a sharp uptick in Asian-targeted hate crimes between 2019 and 2020, data from the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino shows.
On Tuesday, March 16, a gunman went to three Georgia massage parlors and killed eight people, six of them women of Asian descent. As concerns were raised throughout the nation that hate and race played obvious, inextricable roles in those shootings, the gunman, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, who is White, claimed that the attacks were not racially motivated and that he was acting out of a “sex addiction,” according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia.
At the Garden Grove rally, signs displayed such messages as “racism is a virus,” “your fetish dehumanizes Asian women” and “protect our elders.” One speaker wondered if she would make it home alive while walking after dark.
At a similar rally and candlelight vigil in Alhambra on Saturday, someone showed a local TV reporter a video posted to social media that appeared to depict an Asian woman being berated at a gas station in Fullerton on the basis of her race. A woman could be heard in the video saying things such as, “Go back where you came from” and telling the woman to bow.
The Fullerton Police Department was unable to immediately respond on Sunday as to whether anyone reported the incident.
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