China News Service, San Francisco, March 9th, title: Anti-discrimination resistance of Chinese in the San Francisco Bay Area

  China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan

  At the end of 2020, Wendy, a Chinese living in Chinatown in Oakland, California, was robbed three times in a row.

For the last time, the robber who hadn't snatched the money pushed her against the wall in a desperate manner.

The skinny Wendy bounced off the wall to the ground, "the whole side of the body changed color".

  The injury allowed Wendy, who is in her 50s, to receive a long period of treatment.

More difficult to heal than physical trauma is mental suffering.

Wendy said that for several months after the third attack, she "always couldn't fall asleep at night, and she would see that scene when she closed her eyes, just like playing a movie, recurring scene after scene."

  These encounters made Wendy afraid to go out, but because of life needs, she sometimes had to go out.

She saw many volunteer security patrols spontaneously formed by businesses and residents in Chinatown.

After a period of observation, Wendy joined one of the teams.

  At 3 pm on March 6, Wendy and 16 companions gathered in Chinatown.

They wear blue vests and carry whistle, pepper spray, body recorder and other equipment.

Wendy said: "Although it seems she can't do anything, but at least one more person can play a little role." In addition, being with teammates makes her "relaxed as a whole."

  During the two-hour patrol, the team drove away two men wandering the street back and forth.

One of the men on bicycles tried to rob a fruit stand, and the other man was violently destroying an iron fence in a store.

Patrol Captain Kwong Wei said that recently, similar incidents have occurred in Chinatown every day.

Chen Xipeng, president of the Auckland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, also said that discrimination and attacks on Asians in Auckland Chinatown have never been more serious than in the past year.

From the end of last year to the beginning of the year, the intensity of cases has reached its peak.

In the two weeks at the end of January alone, more than 20 cases of theft and robbery against Chinese shops occurred in Chinatown.

  Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the number of discrimination and hate crimes against Asian groups has continued to rise in the United States.

According to a report issued by the US non-profit organization "Stop Hating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders" on February 9, the organization received a total of 2,808 first-hand reports on "Qiuya" incidents from mid-March to the end of 2020. The origin includes the capital Washington and as many as 47 states.

Among them, California has 1,226 and San Francisco has 292, which are the states and cities that have received the most reports in the United States.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, where there are a large number of Chinese, there are more than 700 reports.

  On the morning of January 28 this year, an 84-year-old Thai man in San Francisco was suddenly pushed to the ground while walking and died two days later.

At noon three days later, a 91-year-old Chinese-American man in Oakland's Chinatown was suddenly pushed from behind by an African-American man.

On the same day, the man also attacked a 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman in Chinatown.

  Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chinese-American actor Daniel Wu and Korean actor Kim Da-hyun, who had gone to school in Oakland, immediately released a $25,000 reward to collect clues about the assailant.

Wu Yanzu said: "My father is also 91 years old, and he can't imagine the same thing happening to him."

  "I always think that the Bay Area is a diverse place, and different communities support and care for each other." Daniel Wu said, "What has happened here in the past year is shocking. This is not the Bay Area as I know it."

  The changing situation of Asian Americans also shocked Jeremy Lin, another basketball player who grew up in the Bay Area.

Last summer, Jeremy Lin, who ended the CBA season, returned to the United States and found that these problems faced by Asians had become more serious.

  Jeremy Lin, who currently plays for the Santa Cruz Warriors, has spoken many times for this. During the closed game, he recorded a video speech for a rally supporting Asians in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Recently, Jeremy Lin said on social media: "Although I have played in the NBA for 9 years, I am considered a senior player, but I still cannot avoid being called the'new crown virus' on the court."

  However, Jeremy Lin refused to disclose the name of the other party.

He said: “I don’t want to name the other person, nor do I want to humiliate anyone. What’s the benefit of destroying someone in this situation? It won’t make my community safer, and it won’t solve the long-standing There is a problem of racial discrimination."

  Jeremy Lin said on social networks, "Fighting against ignorance with ignorance will make us nothing." He believes that if you want to really help, you should directly help those Asians who need help.

Jeremy Lin said: "I believe the new generation can be different."

  A new generation of Chinese descent, younger than Jeremy Lin, has already begun to act.

  The successive violent incidents made 13-year-old Chinese junior high school student Su Kaiying very uneasy. She said: "I just think these crimes are very bad. I have to stand up and do something, and then tell my mother that I want to start a rally."

  On February 27th, hundreds of people from different ethnicities participated in a rally against discrimination against Asians initiated by Kaiying Su in San Mateo, San Francisco Bay Area.

Su Kaiying gave a speech in the crowd with a sonorous tone and firm eyes.

  People walked along the road next to San Mateo’s Central Park. Su Kaiying and her mother stood at the forefront of the team, shouting slogans supporting Asians with a loudspeaker. Many passing car owners also honked their horns to show their support.

At this moment, someone rolled down the window of a passing car, cursed an swear word at the crowd, and then drove away.

The marchers faced the direction the vehicle was leaving and responded with louder slogans.

  Although Asians from all walks of life are fighting in different ways, and U.S. Department of Justice officials promised that the Department of Justice will launch an investigation into hate crimes, the sudden "murmur" at the rally site still invades the equal and friendly world of the rallyers' ideals.

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