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🚨 JUST OUT ➡️ The 2023 STAATUS Index

Now in its third year, the STAATUS Index (Social Tracking of #AsianAmericans in the US) is the leading nationally representative survey of Americans' attitudes towards #AsianAmericans

🧵of some findings @taaforg #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIHM Image
1 in 4 Americans believe that #AsianAmericans are MORE LOYAL to their country of origin than to the United States

1 in 5 Americans still believe that Asian Americans are partly responsible for #COVID19 Image
31% of Americans believe that #AsianAmericans should be subject to MORE SCRUTINY when working in areas considered critical to US global strategic competitiveness Image
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A tribute to Vincent Chin begins at 11 a.m. PT today. Watch here: fb.me/e/1xXAk2MAY
Only 15 percent of police departments acknowledge that there are hate crimes. Data collection is poor, says Mike German of the @BrennanCenter
The news media, politicians were talking about "the threat China posed." It was not fringe groups, it was members of Congress, says Mike German, explaining the roots of anti-Asian hate. #StopAsianHate #HateCrime
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3/16/21--6 Asian women were gunned down in Atlanta. We were devastated. We grieved. Then we fought back fast & furious...That fight was grounded in 50 years of Asian American movement building.
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3/17/21 @AdvancingJusticeATL organized a massive community call & directed donations to victim’s families. All #AsianAmericanAdvancingJustice offices around the US have been mobilizing for justice since the formation of the @AsianLawCaucus 1972 and @AALDEF 1974. 2/14
The Georgia Asian Am community was on the ground and provided invaluable leadership to the national response. Advocacy orgs, churches, business orgs, student orgs, community groups. In the 2020 election year Asian Americans had already helped flip the state. 3/14
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How am I? I realize, NOT OK.

I realized just a few minutes ago I'm being hit with a lot of waves right now I hadn't put together in my head:

I'm a
Chinese Asian American
elementary special ed teacher of students of color
living in Chinatown
NYC
the #COVID19 epicenter

AHH 1/
Being Chinese Asian American right now, I've heard stories from all my Asian friends about how people look at them suspiciously now, they're, we're afraid to go outside. My friend just told me her dad was going to a bakery one day late March when someone kicked his leg down.. 2/
...told him he, a Chinese American man, was the cause of #COVID19. Limping, my friend's dad had to run into the bakery to hide from this man, call my friend who finally called 911 from miles away, 30 minutes after the incident, and the guy had run off already. 3/
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I'm so excited for @PBS #AsianAmericans starting in just minutes!!! Watch on your local PBS station 8pm EST OR ONLINE HERE!!!

I'll be semi-live tweeting what I learn from #AsianAmPBS here! Follow this thread! pbs.org/show/asian-ame…
It's starting!!! So excited! #AsianAmPBS
I hear you, @danieldaekim! #AsianAmPBS

Interesting to start @PBS #AsianAmericans w/ the St. Louis World Fair, how the US announces its arrival as an imperialist power, its takeover of the Philippines as a colony, & the white savior complex towards brown people! Rolling w/ this!
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