A History Of Anti-Asian Racism, Plus 'Married At First Sight'

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of Tuesday's mass shooting in Atlanta, guest host Ayesha Rascoe talks to critical race theorist and professor Jennifer Ho about the history behind anti-Asian racism and what it means to be an Asian woman in America. Then, Ayesha chats about her latest obsession, the reality dating show Married at First Sight, with fellow devotees Delece Smith-Barrow, education editor at Politico, and Brittany Luse, former co-host and executive producer of The Nod.

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0:00.0	Okay, so you say, I'm Aisha's daughter and my mom is hosting, it's been a minute this week.
0:06.0	My mom.
0:08.0	I thought we could just say what we wanted.
0:11.2	No, no, no, no.
0:12.8	Can we start it?
0:14.4	Stop eating paper.
0:16.4	Shall we start it?
0:17.6	Okay, don't eat paper.
0:19.6	My mom is hosting, it's been a minute this week.
0:26.4	Let's start the show.
0:27.4	Let's start the show.
0:29.4	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:34.6	I'm Aisha Roscoe, filling in for Sam Sanders.
0:38.4	I'm usually on the White House beat, but now, at least temporarily, I get to sit in the
0:44.0	host chair.
0:46.5	So this week of news was rough.
0:51.5	It's never easy reporting on a mass shooting, but the one that happened at three Atlanta
0:56.6	massage bars earlier this week didn't happen in a vacuum.
1:01.2	Eight people were killed and six were women of Asian descent.
1:05.7	As of this taping on Friday, officials have yet to say whether this was a hate crime.
1:11.6	The suspect, a white male, claimed he has a sex addiction and that this was an attempt
1:16.6	to get rid of temptation.
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