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Over a period of two weeks in November, racist graffiti targeting Asians, African Americans, and Jewish people was found on or near Syracuse University.
Students have been taking action by hosting sit-ins and a movement they call #NotAgainSU.
Read more for a timeline of incidents.
Early November 2019, two suspects assaulted a group of men in their 60s. The suspects approached the group, who was walking in San Francisco's Chinatown around 9:00 pm, before punching the men in attempted robbery. Three men were hurt during the attack, two of whom suffered non-life-threatening injuries. It is unknown whether the crime was racially motivated, although the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the violent beating of these elderly men sparked fear and outrage among the city's Chinese-American community, who feels they are increasingly targeted. The two suspects remain at large.
In a series of tweets in July, President Trump told four women of color currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives to ““go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” All four are U.S. citizens. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx, which she now represents. Her family is Puerto Rican. Representative Rashida Tlaib was born in and represents Detroit. She is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants. Representative Ayanna Pressley was born in Cincinnati, raised in Chicago, and now lives in and represents Boston. Representative Ilhan Omar fled Somalia with her family when she was a child. They received asylum in the US. She became a US citizen in 2000 and represents Minneapolis. Immigrants are familiar with such attacks, which are leveled at us to express that we don’t belong, that we are not and perhaps cannot ever be accepted as fully American. We never expected that such racist and xenophobic statements would be expressed by the President of the United States. Read more.
My Asian American friends and I were walking to a museum when an older white man came up to us and said, “China, China, what are you doing in America? GO HOME.”
I was at a Boston Celtics game with a friend up in the balcony. As the game went on, my friend and I, who are Vietnamese American and Chinese American, noticed that someone kept yelling in our direction. We did not think much of it until it got much louder. Turns out it was a young white man who appeared to be drunk and was very focused on us. He screamed out things like “I hate Asians” and “go back to your country” and that he wanted to throw us off the balcony. I called security and they came and escorted the guy out. I couldn’t help but notice that he had friends with him. They tried to get him to stop, warning him that he’d get kicked out. Despite that, I’m still frustrated that they – and the other people around us – did not call him out for being racist
My husband was with our two young children grocery shopping when he was attacked. All three were subjected to death threats and my children were attacked with racial slurs based on their mixed Asian race.
I am a young woman of Korean decent living in the US. I enjoy going to comic/anime conventions. (I also enjoy cosplaying) And every year without fail I am subject to harassment and degradation. One specific convention I have attended the past 4 consecutive years. The first year I was 15 and a man lifted my skirt as I walked up the stairs, then he and his friends corners me and made lewd comments while pulling and prodding at me/my costume. I have been bowed to by white men, criticized for cosplaying non Asian characters. And even spoken to in broken Japanese by other attendees (I’m of Korean decent and was born in the US). People just throw me into a vague place of “Asian” rather than trying to understand the difference of my culture and heratige. The worst is the fetisization of East Asian women and how it surfaces within interactions during these events. Other attendees would never touch or harass another cosplayer because they hold cosplay in high regard as an art. But many of the see me and break boundaries that my friends say have never been crossed with them. I feel as though they see my handmade cosplay as a cheap costume in an Asian themed porno. Like I am there to cater to them instead of dressing up for fun and to express myself (like the other cosplayers)
It was the night of the election around 2 am and the news had not yet called the presidential election but it was pretty clear that Donald Trump was going to win. I was putting out the trash and there was this young man sitting on the stoop across the street from me waiting for his friend. He was talking to a friend of his who was upset about the outcome. He very clearly said "We're fine. Donald Trump likes us, white people. Who cares about the rest? Trump will lower taxes and white people are fine." I looked over at the young man because I was shocked and went back to my apartment. Eventually, his friend showed up and his friend brought up the election saying something along the lines that we are all screwed. The young man replied to his friend "Naw, we're good but the chink across the street is screwed." The guy didn't realize that I lived on the ground floor and my window was open. I grew up in Columbus, Georgia where my family and I were one of the few Asian families that lived in Columbus during the late 80's. I am used to dealing racism because of the South but I was shocked to hear it in Philadelphia and in my neighborhood that is diverse.
My friend and I were heading to my apartment and as we walked by a neighborhood bodega that is run by a Chinese-American family a man yelled at the owner of the store "Your fucking English is no good. Learn how to speak! Fucking yellow Chink! Mangia merde e morte! Vaffanculo! " My friend and I yelled back at the man "Yo, you're yelling at this woman about her lack of ability to speak English and you are yell at her in Italian? You are a racist and an ignorant idiot." The man just sulked away. My friend and I then asked the lady if she was okay and not to let this man get to her.
My family moved to South in 1987 and we have dealt with racism on a daily basis. My parents like many Asian-Americans own a business. My parents run a typical small family-run mom and pop restaurant. One day in a very large white man came in to order food. He asked for an egg roll and my father informed him that we were sold out. The man became very angry and called my father all sorts of things and then proceeded to throw bottles of condiments at him. My father asked the man to leave and then called the police. The man became even further agitated and tried to punch my father. He couldn't get a punch in because my father was able to quickly move out of the way and then proceeded to run and charge at my father. Little did this poor man know that my father who is slender and not tall had extensive military train and has a black belt in taekwondo. My father out of self-defense flipped, pinned, and then choked out this man until the police came. The people in the neighborhood took video footage of the whole incident and the man was arrested.
Incident occurred in 2017.
I was camping in Yellowstone National Park with my husband. It was the middle of the day and I walked on a path between two campsites to get to the campground bathroom. A white man with Washington State plates was sitting at a nearby campsite yelled at me, saying "you know there is a certain etiquette around here..." implying that I had walked to close to his campsite. I said nothing and continued walking. He then screamed, "go back to where you came from!" He and his wife then glared at me with contempt while I walked away.
It’s 2 A.M and my boyfriend and I are trying to head home after celebrating a friend visiting Houston. The surge pricing on car services was crazy. We live by the museum and haven’t taken the tram before so we bought two tickets and hopped on.
We sat by ourselves and we were thrilled about riding the tram, how cheap it was and it was mostly clean. I’m texting my friend to take the tram down to our stop and then call a car to head home because her Uber ride from downtown would have cost $60. We are sitting quietly when this black man boards at the next stop and starts saying very rude comments about me being an Asian woman. At first I ignored him because he was clearly I toxicated but also I was still messaging my friend to take the tram down and away from the downtown surge pricing.
This man told me how an Asian woman can’t compare to a black woman because we have small boobs, waist and butt. He said he didn’t have an Asian fetish. He continued on saying how my white boyfriend and I could never produce a black child, and that we were unintelligent and beneath him because he had a bachelors in English. I looked up from my phone and asked him if he was done with his disgusting and ridiculous comments. He called us a racist when I said something. I stood from my seat, laughed and told him he was the one making racial and sexist comments from the moment he boarded the tram. I told him I did nothing to him to warrant this behavior when Ive been sitting down quietly, minding my own business. I didn’t even notice he got on the train let alone register what he looked like. I told him he had no respect towards anyone, especially women and was an embarrassment to society. That this society didn’t need more people like him with his small minded hatred towards someone who looked different from him. I continued on to tell him we are all human and genetically we are identical but apparently his superior English degree didn’t teach him with the hateful comments he was directing at me.
When my boyfriend stood up, he’s over 6 feet tall, he stood more than a head taller than this man. He told him to get away from us and that he was an ignorant man. That’s when the conductor stopped the train and came out from his post. We looked at the conductor and tried to explain what’s been going on but he knew. He heard everything He told this man to exit the train. We thanked him and got off at our stop.
In elementary school, there was a particular girl who I didn't get along with. In lunch one day, in front of all of our friends, she told me to "Go back to China!" I told her that I'm not even Chinese, and I'm also half white and I was born in the U.S. My mom later called her mom and made her apologize, but the school didn't do anything about the incident. Although it was only a small act of racism, it still resonates with me. Words and slurs like this often make me and other Asians feel like 'perpetual foreigners'- even when we were born and raised in America-even though I'm half white. I truly believe that these small acts of prejudice can add up to cause low self-esteem, distorted self-image, and in some cases lead to mental health issues.
I was doorbelling for local candidates in a residential area in my city. A man in about his mid-30's crossed the street to block my path and demanded to know what I was doing. I told him I was distributing election information. He then demanded that I show hims some ID. I pointed out to him that I was standing in a public street and refused. He kept demanding that I show him my ID, and I kept refusing and referring to my First Amendment rights. I finally told him to "knock it off" and walked away. He seemed confused about what to do at that point, and did not follow me.
I went to McDonald's and ordered breakfast for myself. I waited 10 minutes and went back to check if it was ready, the cashier checked for me and said it would be ready soon. I waited another ten minutes, and went back to check again. The casher said they called me before but I did not show up. The table next to me, two white people barely order two breakfast, and the casher even brought meals to their table in 5 minutes.