The violence rattling Asian Americans

Post Reports

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🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Asian American communities are bracing themselves against an increase of violent assaults, leaving the marginalized group feeling under attack and isolated.

Attacks against Asian Americans are surging. While data is scant, the numbers in New York City and San Francisco — cities with large, long established Asian American communities — are up.

Racially motivated attacks are chronically underreported, reporter Marian Liu says. “On top of that, there's a high threshold to proving what a hate crime is.”

Liu spoke with Post Reports senior producer Reena Flores about the recent string of viral videos showing violence against elderly Asian Americans and how those attacks have left people in the minority group fearful. “The community has been left feeling very isolated.” Liu says. “They had to report this on their own, create their own database. And many have taken to patrolling their own streets —like people are patrolling Chinatown on their own.”

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:06.2	I'm Martine Powers.
0:07.4	It's Friday, February 26th.
0:14.9	Recording in progress.
0:17.0	All right.
0:18.0	And you're recording on your end?
0:21.0	Yes.
0:22.0	Rina Flores is a senior producer for Post Reports.
0:25.0	She's Filipino American and she's been having a lot of conversations about a kind of
0:29.9	racism that's felt like it's become more visible during the pandemic.
0:34.8	Attacks against Asian Americans.
0:37.0	And she talked about it with one of our colleagues.
0:39.0	I'm going to ask you first off to tell me who you are and what do you do at the post.
0:45.4	My name is Mary and Lou.
0:46.9	I'm an Operations Editor at the Washington Post and I also write four about us, a newsletter
0:53.3	about race and identity.
0:54.8	Hi, is this Ayona?
0:58.0	Hi, this is Mary and from the Washington Post.
1:03.0	Carl said that it would be okay.
1:05.0	I guess it was really hard finding victims to speak up.
1:10.9	But Ayona Chang was one of them who was really thought it was important to speak out.
1:17.6	I think there's a lot of empowerment for myself in going through this process and sharing
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