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Anti-Asian sentiment has always existed in America. Legislation like the Alien Land Acts, the Exclusion Acts and the internment during World War II are examples of past government-sponsored injustices toward Asians and Asian Americans...
Unfortunately, racial insensitivity and injury are not just restricted to the past. These wounds are being reopened today, both subtly and violently. In fact, recent events point toward a rise in anti-Asian sentiment in American. Articles on anti-Asian incidents appear daily in all the major American news publications. Here are only a few examples...
Around the Tonight offices, the sentiment is starting to get thick. "Everyone in the country has been tied together by Johnny Carson," says co-executive producer Peter Lassally, who, along with De Cordova, will depart from the show when Carson does. "A part of Americana is leaving." Says bandleader Doc Severinsen, who started out in the trumpet section of the Tonight show orchestra in 1962: "In a way, it's agonizing. The ending is going on and on. The pain is being extended -- and there is pain...
...these irrationally motivated hate crimes extend beyond attacks against Japanese. Anti-Japanese sentiment becomes hate against Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, Filipinos and other ethnic groups. "Whatever animosity they have towards Asia affects all of us. The can't tell us apart," said Kimura, who is the president of the New York chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League...
...Jackson attacked what he said was burgeoning anti-Japanese sentiment in the U.S. and decried racism of all sorts. He said Americans are using the Japanese as scapegoats for their economic problems...