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The Persistence of Anti-Asian Violence

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In early 2020, reports of violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders began to go up. More alarming is that two years later, the attacks don’t seem to be going anywhere. Why, after so much time passed, hasn’t the story changed? 


Guest: Jo-Ann Yoo, Executive Director of the Asian American Federation.


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0:00.0

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0:35.9

So, Joanne, can you tell me how you feel about the subway right now?

0:42.9

Mary, that's a full lot of question there.

0:45.9

Joanne, you lives in New York City.

0:48.9

My feeling is about the subway is that I really take the subway. I am very nervous.

1:01.9

Joanne's nervous because the subway is kind of a strange place to be right now.

1:06.9

There aren't as many commuters as there used to be. And a few weeks back, there was a string of violent attacks.

1:12.9

I used to love the subway. I'm one of those people on the subway. Whoever sits down next to me,

1:20.9

I'm going to make you talk to me. We're going to have a conversation.

1:24.9

Now, instead of chatting, Joanne is on high alert.

1:29.9

You're underground. You are sometimes the ride from one station to the next is a long ride.

1:37.9

And you're basically in a little metal box.

1:43.9

One more thing to know about Joanne. She's Asian. In fact, she's the executive director of New York's Asian American Federation.

1:51.9

Which means that for the last two years, she's been counting up one attack after another.

1:56.9

Well, a terrific senseless attack has many subway riders understandably on edge.

2:01.9

Police say 40-year-old Michelle Alyssa Goh was shoved onto the tracks in front of an oncoming New York City subway train

2:08.9

at the 42nd Street Times Square Station on Saturday.

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