“There are those who characterize some of us as being more New York than others, as if some of us belong here more than other people. (The advocacy organization Stop AAPI Hate compiled data documenting nearly 3,800 anti-Asian hate incidents over the course of about a year during the pandemic.) “Hate is tearing our city apart, and we need it to stop,” he said. Do better candidate himself addressed the cartoon in a press conference on Tuesday, linking it to the recent spike in anti-Asian hate crimes in the city and elsewhere around the country. “That’s why AAPI representation like is so important. We are here and we’re not going anywhere,” the group added. Every single day Asian Americans have to fight the notion that we are foreigners. “To publish this racist disfiguration of as a tourist, in NYC where I was born, where Andrew has lived for 25 years, where our boys were born, where 16% of us are Asian and anti-Asian hate is up 900%.” She was referring to a cartoon by Bill Bramhall showing Yang, currently a frontrunner in New York City’s mayoral race, stepping off the Time Square subway stop while a couple of New Yorkers eye him and one remarks to the other, “the tourists are back.” (In an interview with pop-culture phenom Ziwe that aired Sunday, Yang, who lives in Hell’s Kitchen, called the Times Square subway stop his favorite in the city because it was the closest to his home.)Įvelyn Yang’s criticisms were echoed by the AAPI Victory Alliance, an Asian American and Pacific Islander advocacy and civil rights organization, which condemned the depiction as “disgusting and wrong. On Monday evening, Andrew Yang’s wife Evelyn had some choice words for the New York Daily News.
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