CONFRONTING RACISM. Fight COVID-19 Racism is a website launched to track, report COVID-19 related attacks against Asian-Canadians.
Three out of four victims said that they suffered emotional harm as a result of these attacks, said Kong. About 65% of the victims are women, illustrating the gender dimension of these incidents, he said.“It’s about targeting someone who you think can’t fight back; taking out hate and anger against them,” said Henry Yu, historian and professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
“Being silent and not speaking out makes us complicit.” Bigotry is “now mainstream, it no longer lurks in dark corners,” lamented Landry “It’s on our phones, in our feeds, in our faces.”Katherine, a Canadian-Chinese nurse and frontline worker, who has publicly spoken out about her experience of being attacked in Toronto in April, said she did so because not many people are aware “of how many are suffering silence.
She cited the head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants from 1885 to 1923, and the Chinese Exclusion Act which barred Chinese immigration from 1923 to 1947, and physical harassment endured by Asian-Canadians during the SARS outbreak in 2003. She also urged Canadian police services to support victims “and immediately lay down charges against perpetrators, or explain to the public why charges are not laid.” She noted that some victims who have reported incidents to the police are still waiting to hear results from investigations.of a 92-year-old Chinese-Canadian man with dementia.
The Bible said that 'God is not partial, but in every nation the man who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.'-Acts 10:34,35 God will soon remove racism for good.(Revelation 7:9,10)