'I'm shaking right now': CNN reporter describes 3 racist attacks within an hour
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Length: 7min 49sec (469 seconds)
Published: Fri Oct 30 2020
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Well this really pisses me off. I'd like the name of that hand waving racist cop.
I've not experienced racial animus during this pandemic (yet), but have been chomping at the bit to get some thrown at me. These racists go after what they see as easy targets. They're cowards.
I'd like one to try me.
She also posted a Twitter thread where she talks about the situation. All of these racist assholes are disgusting, but I'm really struck by the audacity of the airport security officer who thought he could yell at her that she was wrong about what she'd seen with her own eyes.
I did not expect to get as pissed at this as I did. What airport was it? She needs to name and shame them. I hope she got the responding security's name.
Unfortunately, what happened to Amara was not unique. Like the reporter mentioned, racially charged incidents towards Asian Americans are increasing as the American public buys into anti-Asian rhetoric under the Trump administration. Not unlike the anti-Muslim sentiments and hate crimes triggered by 9/11, the American public has found another group to place the blame of the current condition.
Many times, the microaggressions or racial incidents we as Asian Americans face are related to the perpetual foreigner stereotype that posits we are perceived as less American than someone of a white racial background.
Here are a few relevant resources for how to respond to incidents like what Amara experienced so that we don't simply enable "othering" and marginalization (not to say that there must always be a physical response to a given incident):
-A Guide to Responding to Microaggressions | Kevin L. Nadal
-How to Respond to Microaggressions | Hahna Yoon
Hope everyone stays informed, takes care, and please VOTE if you haven't already done so! Our future is at stake!!!!!
I'm so glad I've just been staying inside, away from this disgusting racist shit. Once things start opening up, I am genuinely terrified for the encounters I will experience when things "go back to normal".
This made me tear up-could relate to the blood boiling part-so glad more Asian-Americans are speaking up.
God this was painful to watch. This shit is institutional and we need to throw our political and financial weight around to stomp it out.
It's a good thing there's a pandemic out there so I'm not missing much because I don't want to go outside. I really only go outside to bike and get groceries. I don't have an overwhelming fear but there is this subconscious fear that I have of encountering a racist like this. I feel the need to project strength constantly by standing and walking with good posture but it's so tiring.
I've done a couple of road trips in the past year and I've carried pepper spray with me any time I step out of my car.
Wow that cop backing up the racist aggressor is just horrendous. I didn't know Amara was Asian, but I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of Asian females are in journalist/media based jobs. I never knew we had this much representation, most seem to marry white husbands and take their last name so it was hard to tell based on name alone but when look at their pics they look like myself.