More mass killings, more collective grief — and this time, Asian Americans and immigrants are shouldering the bulk of the agony. Instead of Lunar New Year revelry, people are organizing candlelight vigils, memorials and funeral funds.
from 2021 to last year. This week, someone called a Los Angeles-area hospital where shooting victims were receiving treatment and threatened to “finish the job.”“We have felt like we’ve had a bull’s eye on our back this entire pandemic,” said Connie Chung Joe, chief executive of Asians Advancing Justice in Southern California.
“A stunning contrast going from that kind of high and excitement and hope just to absolutely senseless tragedy and shock and deep, deep sadness,” Wong said. For two months after, Kang, a Korean American, carried a stun gun in her purse. She’d lately felt safer.The comments on social media this week angered her. People noted that the California attackers were Asian — “as if it negates or dismisses our grief simply because it is our own people,” she said — but one silver lining stood out: People from different backgrounds were coming together.
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