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Andrew Yang says it’s sad but true — many Americans are aiming their hostilities over the coronavirus at Asians … but he’s trying his best to be empathetic.
The former presidential candidate — who’s Taiwanese American — tells us he understands that times are tough for everyone right now, and with tough times comes feelings of anger … and for some, it creates a need to find scapegoats.
Unfortunately, many Asian Americans like Yang are bearing the brunt of what he calls “racial hostility” … due in part to people falsely equating the coronavirus’ Chinese origins to all Asians somehow being responsible for it. It didn’t help Trump started calling it the Chinese virus.
Yang points out that Asian Americans’ lives have been upended just like everybody else’s by the COVID-19 crisis … but everyone else isn’t having to deal with daily prejudice on the streets because of it, as well.
It’s totally unfair, but Andrew’s not one for sulking during the pandemic … he’s about solutions.
He’s been urging his fellow Asian Americans to not cower in fear, but to “do everything in our power to accelerate the end of this crisis.”
Yang added … “We should show without a shadow of a doubt that we are Americans who will do our part for our country in this time of need.”