hooting officers into situations in which they are not well we prepared to respond and we need to bring note that until that happens he says mental health crises will likely often continue to end in tragedy and bloodshed john hendren al jazeera chicago you can find a lot more detail on our website all dizzy era dot com. this is our visit with these are the top stories parts of europe are back under lockdown as the continent struggles with rising corona virus infections france poland and ukraine are among those clamping down that are protests against domestic violence in istanbul as turkey withdraws from a global women's rights convention president dressed up to about one issued a presidential decree pulling the country out from 2011 istanbul convention the

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and why is violence against asian americans on the rise a mass shooting in georgia is the latest example of what some call upon demick of racism with deep roots in american history so what can be done to stop the hate this is inside story. alone welcome to the program and that clock the u.s. president is calling for unity to combat racist attacks on asian americans on choose day a white man shot dead 8 people in mass all its policy and spas near atlanta 6 of

the victims were women of asian descent police have not called it a hate crime but many say it's hard to see it any other way a california based group reported nearly 4000 cases of harassment and assault on asian americans since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year gabriel elizondo has this report trying to console the nation president joe biden said on friday evening that hate crimes against asian americans needs to stop too many asian americans have been walking up and down the streets and were waking up each morning the past year feeling their safety and the safety of their loved ones are at stake they've been attacked. blame scapegoating harassed they've been virtually assaulted physically its own killed the comments came in a previously planned stop by president biden and vice president camila harris in

atlanta where on tuesday 8 people were killed 7 of them women 6 being up asian descent the alleged gunman a 21 year old white man was arrested and charged with the murders investigators have so far resisted calling the murders a hate crime but on friday vice president harris herself of asian descent as her mother was born in india said racism is alive and well in america ultimately this is about who we are as a nation. this is about how we treat people with dignity and respect everyone has the right to go to work to go to school to walk down the street and be safe and also the right to be recognized as an american in new york where there have been more than 10 documented

hate crimes against asians in recent months a peace vigil was held calling for an end to the violence that really holds i really hope this is the culmination of the hate and teaching the asian american child he said clearly that they will not have to be another vigil in this seemingly never ending state of hate against even the president biden and vice president harris planned a political rally on friday night and it led to but decided to cancel it and instead met with members of the asian american community in the wake of the tragic shootings gabriels on al-jazeera washington well former u.s. president donald trump has been blamed for a few he hates against asians. when the china virus invaded our sure's corona 19 the china virus comes lou i can. 90 different versions of they. repeatedly use racist terms to describe covert

19 some say though it's not all trumps fault this comedians tweet pointed to a long history of xenophobia jokes in popular culture and historians say sentiment against asians has been made in the united states since the arrival of the 1st immigrants back in the 19th century. or let's 1st talk to a coven son who's an emergency physician in new york city about his experience as an asian american working in the current climate at the calvin thanks for joining us here on al-jazeera as i say you're an asian american doctor you're a staunch advocate of asian american rights what were your thoughts 1st of all when you found out about these deadly attacks. when i 1st found out about these tax which attacks the ones i grew up with but when i was growing in new york city 34 years ago. it's about the attack this week it's exasperate

it's hasn't changed nothing has changed if anything they've gotten worse but like it's getting more attention i've always said about the penn demick their healthcare system all the problems in our health care system were not new problems a pandemic just clarified and it just seems that it's doing the same thing for these decades generations and generations of trauma that are you know people enter sectionally not just even americans but all people of color and people who have been oppressed you know since the dawn of time have been you know just been highlighted and i think we're just getting more attention because the vehicle the lens in which it's portrayed through the pen demick has been just been barred to the floor of the front of maine's the mainstream so we're finally getting our you know our 15 minutes but i worry that it's only going to last resort long for people start forgetting or scapegoat us further or i say it's always been there but to what extent do you think what we just heard from the former president just what do

you think how much is he fan the embers of this with the rhetoric he's been using. it definitely didn't help anyway i'm a big believer that every little bit counts bottom up top down we need all the help that we can get and i hope people sometimes you will need that when they're when they're going through whatever they're going through is that push whether it's from a leader they look up to or a background tension of you know being through a pandemic all these these these years and years of of this racism or discrimination or all these things that they have and tagged as a torch i want to take it out and so and scapegoated people can bring up to the forefront with a little push from words of a leader that they never met before but look up to so definitely the rhetoric of the an administration that we voted out only anything help.

or hurt us even more of something that's been existing long before that they have been around give us a sense of what it's like to those of us who haven't experienced this what kind of racism you have personally faced to what kind of things have said or happen. it's all from the big things and obvious things i mean everyone will notice a grandmother being punched in the face those people who can who watch those images on the screen can relate to the pain and trauma that they would feel that obvious island and it goes all the way down but think about all the things that all the factors those micro behaviors that lead to those obvious actions that the people feel right now think about all the little micro aggressions and behaviors and i want people like mike regressions i heard that word before and it's about what does that mean and it's all those things where people have good intentions but have bad behavior we judge others by their behaviors and only ourselves by our intentions

the road to hell is paved with good intentions people wait come to you with good intentions seemingly to say one thing to want to compliment you but the actions and up running over my foot or end up hurting me and old me that's what we judge others by their behaviors how much they have harmed us even if the tensions are good but you may have good intentions and break my foot by running over it with your car my foot is still broken it doesn't help me any further i'm the one injured even if you have the best of intentions i am now deeply hurt or permanently injured by these well intentioned behaviors then and of harming us and all of the factors whether it's not quite really understanding where we truly are from even though i'm born and raised in new york where that's not really truly understanding though we are mad as american as anyone else around us and not understanding that we're not a perpetual foreigner and even a small little behavior that you have that we are very sensitive to knowing that you never would ask someone else that is an asian american where they're truly from

where they are you know whether they're truly america or not or even the way you behave toward them that your subconscious subconscious bias where you is the same thing as how we treat black and brown black and brown brothers and sisters out there when you know people. at a certain way when they clutch their purses a little tighter or they feel a little more unsafe around them and they are sensitive to that and that adds up all the tension that builds up it boils 'd over when you have an administration or a leader that says the if you will right in the wrong thing that is the straw that broke the camel's back all right calvin sutton thank you for your insight of the window on your life as an asian american thanks very much for a fascinating to get that perspective but let's move on to our panel now from san bernardino we have brian levin who's director of the center for the study of hate and extremism at california state university and from monterey bay is screwed up who's a historian and assistant professor at california state university welcome to you

both great to have you here on this important story 1st of all so as we've been hearing racism against asian americans is is nothing new give us a very brief overview of it steeped in history if you would it goes back to the very origins of modern america doesn't. yes and haitian violence is nothing new. what we seen in atlanta are part of larger and longer patterns and he should violence. that dates back to add to chinese violence during the $1000.00 century the passage of the akan $75.00 page law that was directed at chinese banning chinese women but in practice ended up stereotyping all chinese women as prostitutes we continue to see banning japanese immigrants with the $924.00 and the gratian act and then in the late are the middle to late 20th century we see us imperialism in asia and the establishment of military camp towns in korea

that condoned perpetuated sexual violence against korean women during the cold war and in other us wars and asia and so all of this picks tree deeply informed what we saw happen in atlanta and why historians are calling for the fact that racism and sexism must be understood as part of the factors that contributed to this he cried right so there is this kind of underlying seem if you like racism is always the crissy can erupt to any at any moment as we see there are particular moments we've seen athey asian violence that arise during great that precious like the 1930 s. watsonville riots where white mobs chased out the latino's. because of the global depression that was occurring and even during now we are in the midst of

a depression there are people who are out of work and men are former president tries to pin the blame by racialized on the virus and called it the. you know the chinese flu and this enabled white mobs to start attacking. asian americans across the u.s. stop a.p.i. hate an organization has tracked that there were 3800 reports. submitted to them many of them were acts of hate towards asian american women and so asian americans are scared during this time period brian brown 11 so for the past year or more since the pandemic began really we've seen this despite good asian american hate crimes give us an idea of what you'll say and if it represents a true picture of the scale of the problem. then q and let me just begin by

saying we stand in complete solidarity with our asian american brothers and sisters today just like we did decades ago when we started the center and we're not going to stop we stand with you now if i could answer your question we started seeing particularly in early march the convergence of 2 things one. an escalating number of hospitalisations particularly in new york city which had the most anti asian he crimes of any of the official reports that we've gotten and if you're doing a part of your question what we're getting with reports is minuscule compared to what we know is occurring across the country and that's why our friends and stuff a.p.i. hate really illustrate just the breath of it but we have some really interesting

data that really fits hand in glove with that so what we saw is around the beginning of march an increase in these hospitalizations but we also saw for instance a congressman and march 8th make stigmatizing ethnic statements with regard to coded and then around the same time a secretary of state pump ale on march 16th president trump started using these terms and he used it about 2 dozen times through march 30th so we saw hate crimes go up along with that at the same time and many times. offenders have said things that minute what they heard from these leaders so that was terrible so in new york for instance 12 out of the 28. they had last year were in march alone and what we saw is just in 16 cities alone $122.00

hate crimes. and that was 149 percent increase over the previous year we're talking historic surges in this 4 and the nazi are very certain seems to correlate with donald trump's rhetoric so chrissy there was a suggestion there is a suggestion out there that these attacks may not have been directly a racially motivated that this could be more about the man's and the gates his sexual addiction in itself raises a question about how asian american women are perceived there is a longer history of hyper sexualized asian asian american women i did discuss that the page act in $875.00 which stereotype all chinese immigrant women as prostitutes and then us imperialism in asia. really recent little 5 the stereotype asian women as prostitutes by condoning sexual violence and military camp towns so

this idea of a sexual addiction actually carries on this rhetoric of treating asian american women as objects as beings that need to be objectified or hyper sexualized a lot of this is continued through us popular culture movies t.v. and social media and so that this hyper sexual aviation plays a huge role. in casting the idea that asian and asian massage parlors asian workers. are a sexual addiction and might i add that. work oftentimes. it's stereotyped as sex work but massage workers. do not necessarily not necessarily consider themselves sex work but this oriental list conflation is part of the problem rather abroad do you think that attacks against asian americans

a cold up enough for what they are they recognised that as hate crimes and such. no absolutely not and unfortunately this is occurring not only in the white community but it's something that affects everyone once that bigotry that that that white supremacy or the massage gets out there that toxic smoke spreads throughout the society and one of the things that our reach or research has found is that when leaders like vice president how are us and president biden who just this week condemned this type of violence when they make those statements it actually of correlates to changes in behavior so for instance a couple of quick examples 6 days after 911 president bush spoke of tolerance hate crimes drop precipitously the next day into the next year similarly. when we saw

rhetoric against muslim people by the president after the san bernardino terror attack which affected our community he crying spike another 23 percent on top of what we saw from the terror attack one last quick thing listen to this on march 23rd president trump uncharacteristically spoke of tolerance after a.d.h. s report said he asians are going to be targeted here asian americans and you know what on that one day where he tweeted and spoke of tolerance we didn't have anti asian hate crimes in new york or los angeles on that day but then the next day or 2 we started doing it again and we saw a continuation of these terrible attacks against our asian american brothers and sisters yes i suppose i think chris is no if rhetoric can home he can also heal and biden's approach is the polar opposite to that of donald trump well i don't want to highlight on the ground organized by

a snare community organizers activists artists professors that have done the work to reframe the narrative to. identify that racism and sexism are huge factors in this hate crime where law enforcement police officers and national leaders were unwilling to call it a hate crime right so we get to this point now web page americans be ringing the bell on this issue for say loma raising the the red flag and you know as we've seen over the 200 years more than nothing has actually changed so what now proceed must be done asian americans have called for solidarity with asian americans educate yourselves on the history of anti asian violence. take bystander training. check and with your asian american friends and neighbors. what

you know volunteer to walk with asian americans and if they if they allow you to going to supermarkets or. elderly that are walking there there are community organizations that are organizing around carrying elderly folks so that they are not walking alone. the stigma type thing sex work supporting sex workers rights giving a living wage to service workers to nail salons to massage parlors do you stigmatizing some of their care work and then understanding care in a broader sense that the these massage parlors are are respectable work and they are work that should be paid a living wage and brought from a legal perspective is the law in america are actually capable of accounting for the many ways in which american that asian americans experience racism in the

united states. not enough we have to have non agents to stand up and say this is wrong this is un-american and as we seen these messages from the top carry weight but also one thing i can tell you our community was attacked in a mass killing and it's important for the whole community to stand up for these victims and recognize this attack for what we believe it to be irrespective of the limits of the law here in the united states one has to prove in court beyond a reasonable doubt motive so let's let this investigation continuing at the same time acknowledge the pain and the intersectionality that often exist with hate crimes we had many transgendered people killed in the united states last year a recent high. and that intersection was a lot of people of color black people who are also transgendered and we i think

we're seeing another example here you can have a hate crime that has one or 2 or multiple causes and you can have an intersection between race and gender for example and we stand with our fellow citizens and residents of this country because this is un-american and we have to speak out those who do not who are not members of each american community and say this is not reflective of what or national ideals and aspirations all if i could end with you jealous tell the world about how your daily life how much it's affected by this kind of racism and how it is and how important it is that the solution is sort i have been reading with american communities and. it's been a very sad time i have family and atlanta my at work the

rebbe locks from the site of the killings and the murders i have cousins i have friends in atlanta forests care and and so i feel all of this deeply and i am part of an organization known as the anti so in squad we are a collective of sowars that have made mass at the start of the pen demick we send our mass home in mass to the communities that are most vulnerable and have been the most impacted specifically by t.o.c. communities that have suffered from histories of disenfranchisement we prioritize their health and safety by sending those communities last. and so as part of the anti sewing squad we'd put out a statement by standing in solidarity with the murdered workers and really calling for

a re-evaluation of how we treat service workers in industries like massage parlors nail salon. and other service jobs that we need to respect their work we need to care for that we need to treat them as human beings. and also we need to identify a longer history of racism and sexism and call for more creative solutions and we oppose an increased reliance on policing ok. we appreciate your time we've we've run out of it but we do appreciate our time in focusing on this important crucial story thank you so much chrissy lao and brian levin and calvin sun thank you and thank you for what she you can see this and all our previous programs again by visiting our web site al jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to up facebook page that facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter we are at a.j.

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