It still serves as a lesson. Too few of us see the recent anti-Asian madness for what it is: a plague that can only end when non-Asian Americans see the blind spot within us. A Ladera Ranch family was repeatedly harassed with rocks, verbal attacks and pounding at their door over the course of several months early this year, until neighbors stepped in to help.
In April, Orange County prosecutors charged a man with a hate crime for allegedly throwing rocks at an Asian woman and her 6-year-old son as they drove in Fullerton. That same month, Sakura Kokumai, a karate champion who represented the United States in the Olympic Games, was verbally attacked by a man while working out at Grijalva Park in Orange.
Weeks later, an elderly Korean couple were attacked in the same park by the same man, leading to his arrest. During the pandemic, calls to the Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance, a Garden Grove-based nonprofit, reporting mental health issues sparked by racial trauma have jumped threefold, she said. In hate incidents motivated by religious prejudice, members of the Jewish community were the primary targets, with 94 of incidents classified as antisemitic.
This marks an increase of 50 in antisemitic hate incidents, according to the report. She joined the newspaper in as a reporter for the Daily Pilot, a Times Community News publication.
Fry most recently covered breaking news for The Times and was part of the team that was a Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of a boat fire that killed 34 people off the coast of Santa Barbara. Anh Do is a Metro reporter covering Asian American issues and general assignments.
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Skip to content A moment of meditation and prayer during a demonstration on March 23, Handling Hate This story is the first in an ongoing series exploring concrete steps Orange County leaders can take to tackle racial justice and hate across the region, amid a recent spike in hate incidents across the county and U.
Nguyen made her mask and plans to sell them to raise money for AAPI organizations. Self defense skills are taught by two members of the Vietnamese Martial Arts Center, at an event outside Advance Beauty College in Garden Grove — in light of a spike in anti-Asian racism.
Since you've made it this far, You are obviously connected to your community and value good journalism. Prior to the pandemic, four hate incidents against Asian Americans were reported in Hate incidents, in all, spiked in March , the same month that initial stay-at-home orders in California sought to flatten the curve of rising coronavirus infections. As the Asian American community faced blame for the pandemic, they braced for a wave of hate.
As policies surrounding the vaccine campaign have been discussed, considered and carried out this year, anti-vaccine activists have also arrived at civic meetings in O. The presentation of the hate crime report ended on a hopeful note and a call to action, as the combined number of hate crimes and incidents in outpaced the year before by Support our coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.
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