Ohio Man Charged After Verbal Attack on Black Delivery Driver Went Viral
You ain't never lied....Preach
Ohio Man Charged After Verbal Attack on Black Delivery Driver Went Viral
BREAKING: James Rhodes of Stow, OH was just arrested & charged with aggravated menacing & ethnic intimidation (felony) after verbally attacking a black woman, who was delivering food with her 2yo child, b/c she’s black & saying he’d kill her.
She recorded him.
the asian hate crime bill seems designed for revised data collecting and making sure asians are included in the data..the money allocated seems to be for creating programs that educate about hate crimes and inclusion of AAPI.
You see the Asian attacks in the media, and for sec there - one would think the media was suggesting these attacks came from black folk.
Proud Boys saw wave of contributions from Chinese diaspora before Capitol attack
The Proud Boys enjoy support from some Chinese Americans and the broader Chinese diaspora, attracted by the group's claim to be fighting communism.news.yahoo.com
Proud Boys saw wave of contributions from Chinese diaspora before Capitol attack
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So it's symbolic bullshit? Still better then telling black voters you will do shit and doing nothing.Why over 85 Asian American, LGBTQ groups opposed the anti-Asian hate crimes bill
May 14, 2021, 3:30 PM EDT
By Kimmy Yam
Dozens of Asian American and LGBTQ groups have raised concerns around the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act, which passed in the Senate last month with nearly unanimous support.
More than 85 organizations, which range from the civic engagement nonprofit 18 Million Rising to the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, a federation of Asian American LGBTQ organizations, released a statement this week in opposition to the legislation. The bill, which would in part direct the Department of Justice to expedite the review of hate crimes related to Covid-19 and bolster law enforcement to better collect data on such crimes, is expected to be taken up by the House this month and has already received support from President Joe Biden.
But the groups argue that the legislation fails to provide resources to address the causes of anti-Asian bias and, in turn, ignores police violence against Black and brown communities.
“What we're trying to do is we're calling for a redistribution of wealth and resources into things like health care, and housing, social services, because we know that’s at the root of the violence that we see in our communities, is due to inequality,” Jason Wu, co-chair of the GAPIMNY-Empowering Queer & Trans Asian Pacific Islanders, which helped spearhead the statement, told NBC Asian America. “The things that will keep us safe require us to think more long term and systemically about what the root causes of violence are.”
In the statement, the groups argued that “relying on law enforcement and crime statistics does not prevent violence,” citing the continued violence against trans people despite hate crime measures that should protect them. According to the Human Rights Campaign, at least 44 transgender or gender-nonconforming people were fatally shot or killed by other violent means in 2020 alone. The majority of the victims were Black and Latinx transgender women.
The organizations also point out that a great deal of violence comes at the hands of law enforcement. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences cited police violence as the leading cause of death for young men in the U.S. Roughly 1 in every 1,000 Black men can expect to be killed by police, the researchers found.
“Hate crime classifications and statistics do not change the structural conditions that lead to violence against marginalized communities,” the statement reads.
In the context of the ongoing attacks on Asian Americans related to the pandemic, Wu said that law enforcement has not been helpful, or preventative.
“What the police do is that they show up afterwards, and they issue press releases. And they really take these horrific moments of pain and trauma, and they use it to demand more money for their budgets,” Wu said. “When we know that more policing and prisons is not keeping us safer, why is it that we continue to ask for the same approaches to violence and crime?”
Citing the case of Yao Pan Ma, a 61-year-old Chinese American man who was attacked while collecting cans to support his family — and remains in a coma — along with other victims of anti-Asian violence, Wu explained that many people and their families have had to crowdfund to cover their own health care and other costs, some of the most dire needs. Law enforcement does not aid in many of these critical essentials.
“Hate crimes, prosecution and incarceration of the attacker does nothing to address those needs,” Wu said. “It also doesn't address the reality that, at least in New York City, many of the attacks involve people who do have mental health issues, who are poor, potentially homeless … we have to address inequality in our society.”
Rather than enacting hate crimes legislation, the organizations advocate for a shift in resources from law enforcement to community-based solutions including interventions and noncarceral alternatives. They demanded the removal of police from communities and instead called for investing in mental health care infrastructures, neighborhood trauma centers and community food banks among other programs.
In addition to such programs, the groups advocated for a reframing of bias violence, recognizing the topic as a public health issue and “so that public policy interventions can be based on noncriminal legal research and prevention efforts.”
“This means no partnerships, contracts, and arrangements between law enforcement and other entities, including data-sharing agreements,” the statement read.
It also reinforced the groups’ commitment to reject any solutions that address anti-Asian bias with those that are also “inherently anti-Black, anti-immigrant, and harmful for the most marginalized in our communities.”
Why over 85 Asian American, LGBTQ groups opposed the anti-Asian hate crimes bill
“The things that will keep us safe require us to think more long term and systemically about what the root causes of violence are," Jason Wu, co-chair of the GAPIMNY-Empowering Queer & Trans Asian Pacific Islanders, said.
Now @Soul On Ice be HONEST the statements and observations made would the EXACT sames ones you would make and have made about any bills or legislation made for black americans. It doesn't go far enough...what it actually does doesn't address the real issues....etc etc..
yet you post social media bullshit as if this is a big win for asians when asians on the ground (much like you are) dont see it as such...
so whats your point really???
Nigga please...if that's the case then you should be doing backflips for any symbolic bullshit thing ever, done and to come the way you guys played this shit up
They don't mean anything. That makes it even worseNigga please...if that's the case then you should be doing backflips for any symbolic bullshit thing ever, done and to come the way you guys played this shit up
Symbolic gestures mean nothing you've said as much in the past..NOW its better than blah blah blah...GTFOH.
You're bullshit is exposed we all can see it..
Over 75 Asian, LGBTQ groups oppose anti-Asian hate crimes bill
Shawna Chen
Photo: Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
More than 75 Asian and LGBTQ organizations issued a statement Wednesday rejecting the anti-Asian hate crime bill that recently soared through the Senate.
Why it matters: The groups say the bill will bolster law enforcement and further harm marginalized people. Their opposition reflects a fracture among Asian Americans as the community looks to address a yearlong spike in anti-Asian hate.
What they're saying: In Wednesday's statement, published on writer Jenn Fang's blog, "Reappropriate," activists called the bill a contradiction of "Asian solidarity with Black, Brown, undocumented, trans, low-income, sex worker, and other marginalized communities whose liberation is bound together."
- The bill, backed by prominent AAPI Congress members, including Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), aims to improve hate crime tracking and train police to better identify anti-Asian hate.
- Lawmakers have denied criticisms that the bill reinforces policing. The House is expected to take up the bill in mid-May and will likely send the legislation to President Biden, who has said he would sign it.
The organizations called on members of Congress to oppose the legislation and instead shift resources from law enforcement to communities.
- The bill does not create "systemic change" and only increases "crime statistics collection," the organizations write.
- Relying on crime statistics does not actually prevent violence, they argue, pointing to the 2009 Matthew Shepard Act.
- The Matthew Shepard Act expanded federal hate crime categories to include sexual orientation and gender identity, but the statement notes that the U.S. continues to see high rates of deadly anti-trans violence.
- Bolstering law enforcement "ignores that police violence is also anti-Asian violence, which has disproportionately targeted Black and Brown Asians," they write.
- The statement cites the deaths of Christian Hall and Angelo Quinto, Asian Americans who were recently killed by police during mental health crises.
The big picture: In 16 of the country's largest cities and counties, reports of anti-Asian hate crimes have surged 164% since this time last year, according to a recent study from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State University San Bernardino.
- Investing in non-carceral alternatives and removing police presence from neighborhoods are among their demands.
Over 75 Asian, LGBTQ groups announce opposition to anti-Asian hate crimes bill
Bolstering law enforcement would only hurt Asian communities' most vulnerable members, they say.
The bill is to address that local law enforcement and state agencies should fully comply with the Hate Crimes Statistics Act, and efforts should be made to include disaggregated data on the Asian American and Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander communities.
dont be naive......
thats why asian activist groups oppose the bill as not going far enough??
Can run this pic for any of the presidents
