Atlanta, New York, Washington … Thousands of Americans demonstrated this weekend against anti-Asian racism, after the deadly shootings at massage parlors in Georgia.
Thousands of Americans demonstrated over the weekend in cities across the country against anti-Asian racism.
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Xing Hua, an Asian American, said she was “very angry” that Tuesday’s bloodshed had not yet been described as “racist” by the police.
“The fact is that six Asian women have died,” denounces the thirty-something in Washington, the capital of the United States, where several hundred demonstrators gathered on Sunday.
Hyper-sexualisation
Arrested Tuesday after opening fire in three Asian massage parlors in Atlanta and its suburbs, Robert Aaron Long admitted the facts and was charged with murder. During his interrogation, he denied any racist motive, presenting himself as a “sex addict” eager to suppress “a temptation”.
“I am not a temptation”, criticizes Kat, 31, on her sign, regretting the hyper-sexualization of Asian women. “I have been accosted by men on dating applications who tell me ‘I have to cure my yellow fever’,” she told AFP.
Upsurge
In New York, the city’s mayoral candidate and ex-contender for the Democratic presidential primary Andrew Yang, son of Taiwanese immigrants, on Sunday called on protesters to raise their hands if they had felt an upsurge in acts racist since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Donald Trump has repeatedly called this virus the “Chinese plague”. Hundreds of raised hands responded in the affirmative. Hundreds of people also marched Sunday afternoon in Montreal, Canada, noted an AFP photographer.
“We are demonstrating against years of anti-Asian racism, fomented by a white supremacist president in the United States who insisted on labeling the virus as the Chinese virus, which has encouraged hatred and attacks against all kinds of oppressed minorities” , said of Donald Trump, May Chiu, of the Chinese progressive group of Quebec, and organizer of the march.
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