'Black and Asian unity': attacks on elders spark reckoning with racism's roots
An 91-year-old man shoved to the ground in Oakland, California's Chinatown. A 50-something woman thrown into a set of newsstands in Flushing, Queens. An 84-year-old man fatally assaulted in San Francisco. A recent spate of violence against Asian elders has left many Asian Americans across the country feeling targeted, wondering whether these are random acts of crime or fueled by anti-Asian bias.
The attacks have shaken Asian immigrant communities already struggling after a year of pandemic-related challenges, including racist taunts of "kung flu" or "China virus" and economic devastation for Chinatowns and other immigrant communities and four years under an administration whose trade war with China fueled xenophobia.
