White supremacy kills

[Mr. Scorpio]

We’re given examples of that truth every single day.

A violent white man just didn’t have a “bad day.” He had a day when he understood that he was just another armed, entitled white man in this country who felt empowered to take the lives of people that he believed were less than human.

The murdering POS knew where he could target Asian women, he knew that they would be vulnerable and never considered their lives of any worth.

He was taught this lesson by merely living as a white man in America. White supremacy taught him to kill.

Don’t think that he’s not the only one.

[dalton99a]

1. Last year's headline: Federal agencies are doing little about the rise in anti-Asian hate

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/federal-agencies-are-doing-little-about-rise-anti-asian-hate-n1184766
Federal agencies are doing little about the rise in anti-Asian hate
The CDC and DOJ worked to stop bias incidents and hate crimes following the SARS outbreak and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. No such plans have been released amid the coronavirus pandemic.
April 16, 2020, 5:00 AM CDT
By Alexia Fernández Campbell and Alex Ellerbeck

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The 9/11 terrorist attacks also set off a wave of hate incidents against Asians. Two days after the attacks, a man tried to torch cars in the parking lot of a Seattle mosque and then fired a gun at worshippers. That same day, someone set a Pakistani-American restaurant on fire in Salt Lake City.

The Justice Department — the country's top law enforcement agency — came up with a three-pronged response right away.

First, leaders of the agency's civil rights division asked public officials to make clear that Arab, Muslim, Sikh and South Asian Americans are Americans, too, and that hate crimes and discrimination against them would not be tolerated. President George W. Bush, a Republican, and his attorney general and FBI director immediately issued such statements.

The second part of the plan: an outreach program to the affected communities. Within a few months of the attacks, Justice Department officials had attended more than 100 meetings and events with leaders from the Arab, Muslim, Sikh, and South Asian communities.

The agency also coordinated civil rights enforcement, working with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, for example, to file lawsuits related to job discrimination against Arabs and Muslims.

One of the people who helped spearhead the effort was Jim Zogby, head of the Arab American Institute in Washington, D.C. He started to receive death threats a day after the terrorist attacks and was surprised to see the Justice Department take them seriously. The FBI arrested three men in connection with the threats; all three went to prison. Zogby said he helped organize the monthly meetings between federal law enforcement agencies and community leaders.

Another key figure at those meetings was Amardeep Singh, who co-founded the Sikh Coalition. At the time, followers of Sikhism were often mistaken for Muslims because of their turbans, and they were victimized, too.

Singh, now at the Open Society Foundations, said the Justice Department's efforts were "tremendous" when it came to prosecuting job discrimination, school bullying and hate crimes — but the FBI racially profiled and surveilled Arabs and Muslims, creating major distrust between those groups and federal law enforcement. Still, Singh said, at least the message coming from the Bush administration was that Americans must not discriminate.

That's not the message coming from the Trump administration, Singh said. "Instead, the president is stoking anti-Asian sentiment by blaming China for the virus, and it's encouraging a climate of hate crimes, a climate of suspicion and fear," he said.

In addition to using the "Chinese virus," Trump has said he didn't mind that a White House staffer reportedly called it the "Kung Flu."