#StopAsianHate

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There is a terrible, terrible darkness afoot in American society right now.

One that, sadly, is not getting the air time it so desperately deserves.

And that is the recent spike in hate-driven attacks towards Asian Americans.

Photo: The Washington Post

Recently, in the last several weeks, assaults on Asian Americans – particularly the elderly – have reached a disturbing high.

With the help of brands like Nike and Kith, and celebrities like Olivia Munn to raise awareness, videos have been circulating on social media, depicting innocent elderly Asian American men and women getting shoved to the ground, beaten with objects, slammed into poles or mailboxes, spit at and/or verbally assaulted with racial slurs.

The cruelty and criminal behavior is absolutely sickening.

And it is going completely unnoticed.

Because the media is stunningly silent on this injustice.

To be completely honest, I probably would not have known about these heartbreaking attacks, had it not been for my boyfriend, who himself is Filipino and part of the Asian American population.

He is angered and outraged and saddened. And so am I.

Asian Americans make up only 5.6 percent of our population, and yet, thanks to the racially insensitive nomenclature “China Virus” and “Wuhan Flu,” they have been the target of everyone’s blame for the pandemic. A stereotype and way of thinking that is completely false, wrong and misdirected.

During the height of the pandemic, from March to December of 2020, there were 2,808 reported hate crimes against Asian Americans. In New York City alone, attacks on Asian Americans in 2020 were up ninefold from the year before.

And in just the past few weeks, there has been an acute spike in attacks.

I fear for my boyfriend’s safety, for the safety of my Asian friends, and for my Asian American brothers and sisters in Christ, across the country. How did we get here? How is this reality? How is hatred so rampant in today’s world?

Sure, we’re all fed up with the pandemic, tired of masks and isolation, angry at the suffering we’ve endured this past year, and desperately long for life to return to normal. But that in no way constitutes or warrants acts of deliberate hatred and cruelty.

Where have we gone so wrong?

People spent the entire summer protesting (and rioting) for Black Lives Matter, but where is the outcry for justice for our Asian brothers and sisters?

Hate is hate is hate, and wrong is wrong is wrong. And any act of injustice deserves to be righted, no matter what skin color, culture, background or creed.

And we all have a role to play in helping the Asian community. If we see something, we need to do something. We cannot be bystanders. We can raise awareness. We can offer support and solidarity to our worried Asian friends. We can stand up for them, if we witness injustice taking place.

To be honest, in many ways, I feel that the BLM protests of this summer, only carved the knife deeper into the divide, and fostered a collective spirit of animosity in our nation, rather than sowing seeds of peace, love or unity.

Which leads me to my question…how do you teach love?

To drive out hate, you must replace it with love. With respect. With understanding and compassion. But how do you teach these things?

Photo: The Washington Post

One would think they are instilled into us as children, but sadly, as we’ve seen demonstrated on the national stage, that is sadly not always the case.

I knew I wanted to write about this tonight, but had been struggling with how to end it. Because, frankly, “love your neighbor” just seemed incredibly hollow and flat. Especially when a 84 year old Asian man in San Francisco was just shoved to the ground so hard that he died.

“Love your neighbor” doesn’t cut it.

Back at the beginning of the pandemic, my mom included me in a group chat “prayer group” with about 20 of her Bible study friends. And this afternoon, I was moved to actually open the chat thread and read it….something that, to be honest, I rarely ~if ever~ do. As with all of my group chats on my phone, I have them on the “no-notifications” setting. Because…mental health.

But the very last text resonated with my heart, and pertained to this whole ugly situation so well, I wanted to share. It was the prayer from one of her friends for today.

“Jesus…may your love rule in my heart that I may only think, act, and speak with charity and good will for all.”

We must pray for hearts of love. For ourselves, for others and especially for those whose hearts are cold and full of hate. They are, not only the ones who are hardest to pray for, but the ones who need it the most.

The thing about love about this woman’s prayer is that it reminded me that love is an action verb. And to love means that you think with love, act with love and speak with love.

Teaching love…that is sadly a losing battle. Because in order to love, the heart has to change. Walls have to crumble, ice has to melt, and stone must turn to hearts of flesh. And the only one who can truly do that, is Jesus. EZ 36:26 “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.“

So what can we do?

We can pray.

There is power in prayer, I believe that with my whole being.

We must pray for those with hearts of stone and hatred, that Jesus transform them, and make them a new creation. Give them eyes to see goodness in others, hearts full of compassion, and spirits brimming with respect and love for others.

A tall order, but I am standing here today, a product of Jesus’ transformative power. Redeeming and restoring, not only my heart of stone in my eating disorder, but also my body: from a lifeless, osteopenic 78 pounds – infertile and afraid,- to a thriving, healthy and strong young woman.

God is in the business of miracles.

And Lord, please blanket our Asian American brothers and sisters in your protection. And calm their fears and anxieties. Help us all want to live and love like You.

“This is what the Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.” Ez 37:5

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162 thoughts on “#StopAsianHate”

  1. Racist attacks on old people of any race or creed make me so angry . How could anyone do that?!! It’s pure evil. I’m glad you wrote this because I didn’t know such things were happening. But sadly this is part of the larger problem of growing hate and violence and division in this country . The root cause is rejection of God. It’s not going to get better unless people admit their sin and repent and follow Jesus. He is the only mediator between God and man. These violent acts are proof that man is inherently evil, not good like the progress humanists claim. Our fleshly nature rebels against anything that we believe threatens our self interests. Love seeks the best for others but only God can give us that kind of love. As for China being blamed by Trump , I think that was irresponsible of him to use such a blanket term. Obviously he meant the Chinese government, not the citizens, especially those in America . But Biden is buddies with the Chinese government . Don’t expect things to improve as far as the treatment of Chinese citizens . Also, I think all of us Christians should expect growing persecution, such as in the comment above. We must continue to speak truth in love , be ever vigilant about our lives so that we give them no excuse to blame God, and pray for our enemies. May God be glorified in everything. These are the last days.

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    1. They make me so angry too. Thank you for this heartfelt response. Amen – Jesus is the ONLY mediator. Hugs and love xox

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  2. So I just did a little research and this has the smell of a propaganda campaign. My guess is that the Democrats want to to continue their push to turn the public against trump voters . They are trying to blame all kinds of things on white conservatives , especially Christians . Beware of jumping on that bandwagon. Biden is a puppet of the left . He wrote an executive order on this topic . The actual issue is the economy ,ruined by the unnecessary shutdowns that were politically motivated by the Democrats. They need to keep the lies going and racism is their preferred message, it has been used for years to create division. The true problem is CLASSISM . Greed and globalization are the problem. These violent incidents are probably paid attacks by Soros. Don’t believe the media when they all push the same agenda. They are part of the globalists toolkit .

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    1. Oh wow – that is terrifying. And there’s a lot of truth in that – there is an agenda afoot in the media. Terrifying to consider their power. Hugs and love xox

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  3. When a nation rejects God’s leading He gives them over to their barbaric, animalistic instincts and hatred is always the result. That’s what we’re seeing up close and in high resolution. May God have mercy on us all.

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    1. I so agree Rollie. Sadly our nation left God in the dust a long time ago, and with it went moralaity and goodness. Amen. May God have mercy. Hugs and love xox

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  5. I wrote an article a few months ago where I differentiated between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese people. I have been there five times. The people are wonderful. The presence of the party looms over every endeavor, with the thought of someone looking over your shoulder all the time. So, to hate Chinese Americans is ridiculous, but hate already drives beyond reason, thus anything is fair in that unfair world of hatred. I was spat upon and called a baby killer, because I wore a military uniform, in Mississippi, during the Vietnam War. Logic, common sense, it all goes away when you give in to that much hatred. Anyway, SlimJim wrote a comment on my old post to say that he appreciated my comments and his church, predominantly Chinese Americans in CA appreciated it too. If the CCP and the people of China are two different things. Chinese Americans are not even connected to either of those things, other than very distant cousins that never see one another.

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    1. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. You’re so right – hatred is so terrible, and there is no room for it in society. The while situation just breaks my heart. Glad you stopped by. Hugs and love xox

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  9. Thank you for sharing this. While I do disagree with your BLM comment, I do wholeheartedly agree the level of animosity and hate in the US right now is shocking, scary and sad to see. Very tense times and no doubt escalated by everyone’s anxieties with the pandemic. Thank you for speaking up. I think if more people did so, it’ll help push back against those perpetuating these awful hate crimes.

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    1. Thank you Ab, it really is so tragic that this is the reality right now. It is just terrible and wrong on every level. Thank you got stopping by. Hugs and love xox

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  10. Excellent post. We need to take a stand in this country that ALL LIVES MATTER. Lest we forget, the holocaust in Germany happened when people believed that some lives do not matter and that a particular ethnic/racial/religious minority should be blamed for the nation’s problems.

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    1. Thank you Michael! You’re so right – all lives matter. Period. End of sentence. From womb to tomb!! Thank you for stopping by! Hugs and love xox

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  11. The other day, I saw a video that someone had posted on Facebook. The video showed a African American guy caught on CCTV arguing with two women and then he glances to the other side of the street and darts over and kicks an Asian woman off her scooter.

    You watch these videos in disbelief because it just seems that these people (mostly elderly) are just going about their business and not bothering anyone. So why are they targeted?..

    Just before the BLM riots started all across the U.S., a number of videos went online where Black people were literally harassing Asian people.. one person on the subway. A group of 4 were caught on CCTV attacking a teenage girl on her way home from school and they killed her. They kicked her to death, took something from her bag and ran off.
    I am guessing that none of those guys were ever caught and prosecuted because not long after that, the George Floyd incident happened.

    I went online and asked a simple question why no one bothered to consider those attacks on Asians as hate crimes as well. But apparently it is racist to suggest that black people can be racist. How about that?

    After that I realized by comments were falling on deaf ears and even Asian people were upset at the term “All Lives Matter”. One Asian lady posted a video about stabbing the next person who said, “All Lives Matter”.

    Is this what it has come to? Is this the world that we are living in?
    We are not allowed to have rational discussions anymore about right and wrong, because right and wrong is now subjective. Palm, face.. WACK!!

    If at all, I think that All people should take to the streets and shout “All Lives Matter”, “Stop Asian Hate”.. More voices need to be heard and the media should give it some attention.

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    1. Oh my gosh!!!! That is just terrible! I know, to pick on someone defenseless if a new type of low if you ask me! It is just so sad. You bring up so many powerful points that I fully agree with. What has this world come to, indeed. And don’t me started on the media… it doesn’t fit their narrative, so they’re silent when these atrocities are happening. Makes me so sad. Glad you stopped by. Hugs and love xox

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  12. I may be ignorant, but I don’t remember hearing about violence like this back in 1969 specifically aimed at Asian Americans or Chinese citizens when the flu that Year got dubbed “Hong Kong flu”. Then again, I was only 8 years old, and what I did remember hearing in the news was about Vietnam, and MLK and Bobby Kennedy’s assassinations. So the hatred has just increased instead of decreasing. So sad.

    Interestingly, I remember my mother saying my grandpa had lost his sense of smell when he had that flu. He died in February of 1969 in a sort of freak accident. He had a wind shelter he had built and set on his tractor, and there was a hole in the tractor’s muffler, which allowed carbon monoxide to build up inside the shelter. Normally he would have smelled the fumes, or heard the extra loudness that comes from a bad muffler, but since he didn’t have his smell back and was bundled up extra warm against the cold, he died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
    All that to say I do not remember hearing anyone blaming Hong Kong for his death or being angry with that population. Why have we become such a culture of blaming, hateful people?!

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  17. One of the reasons of hate crimes towards Asian Americans is probably due to former president Trump who agressively marked covid as „china virus“ and told multiple times that China has to pay for the damages of the virus across the globe. Sad.

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    1. Thank Kana for sharing your thoughts on this. Yeah the nomenclature was definitely harmful! Hugs and love xox

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