Many activists had been frustrated that the Biden team would initially cite Harris’s presence as though it eliminated the need for any other Asian American representation. Give us a senior staff person in the White House who gets our issues.”Harris is of Black and Indian descent. An Asian American schoolteacher and her husband found a slur spray-painted on their car after leaving the movies. In his first televised address as president, Biden condemned “vicious hate crimes against Asian Americans, who have been attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated. Richmond said he often tells Asian American advocates that he empathizes with them, reflecting on discrimination he has faced as a Black man in America.

Source: Washington Post March 18, 2021 23:31 UTC