US Government Should Better Combat Anti-Asian Racism

Expand In this March 31, 2020, photo, Kyle Navarro poses in San Francisco. The school nurse was unlocking his bicycle when an older white man called him a racial slur and spat at him. © 2020 AP/ Jeff Chiu In Brooklyn, New York, an Asian woman suffered an apparently race-based acid attack while taking out her garbage on April 5. A few weeks earlier in Texas, a man targeted and stabbed a Burmese-American man and his two children, ages 2 and 6, at a Sam’s Club. He said he had attempted to kill the family because he believed they were “Chinese and infecting people with the coronavirus.” One of…

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