“Stand up. Speak Out.” That’s what members of New York’s AAPI community did on Sunday in order to speak out against the silent, anti-Asian hatred they have been facing for years.
Attacks being systematically carried out on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders throughout New York City and the United States as a result of prejudice related to the COVID-19 pandemic slowly faded from the public consciousness until the city was once again forced to face the horrors of another young woman’s death.