Asian-American Orgs Aim to Document, Expose Hate Crimes as Trump Administration Begins
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Asian-American Orgs Aim to Document, Expose Hate Crimes as Trump Administration Begins
As Asian-American groups across the country prepare for Friday’s inauguration, many are approaching the start of the next four years by launching projects aimed at tracking hate crimes and bias incidents.
“There has definitely been an uptick in hate incidents in the months leading up to and after the election,” Karin Wang, the Vice President of Programs and Communications at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles told NBC News. “We felt that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have always had to shoulder this outsider burden and that our stories have not been covered.”
Take a #StandAgainstHatred. Today we’ve launched a hate crime tracker to collect harrassment targeted towards AAPI’s https://t.co/ClRZpGeC5T pic.twitter.com/9HxmwVgeud
— Advancing Justice LA (@AAAJ_LA) January 18, 2017Wang said that while hate incidents against Muslim Americans have received extensive coverage since the election, she says crimes against other members of the community may be being overlooked. “There have been attacks at Asian-American churches, there have been Asian Americans harassed in the street,” she said. “What we are worried about is that people are getting complacent.”
