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Smashed windows and racist graffiti: Vandals target Asian Americans amid coronavirus
Some vandalized Asian-owned businesses can't afford repairs amid huge customer declines.
Eric Chan and his sister, Ivy, showed up at their familys restaurant Jade Garden in Seattles Chinatown-International District on the morning of March 26 to discover the windows had been shattered.
Its one of many examples of vandalism across the country directed at Asian Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic, reports say.
Chan estimated that the damage to Jade Garden was around $1,500. Business was already down 80 percent at the beginning of March, forcing Chan to temporarily lay off 33 employees. Now, the restaurant doesnt have the money to make the necessary repairs, he said.
This wasnt just a simple rock being thrown," Chan told NBC Asian America. "Someone took the time in the middle of the night to smash the windows in hard, very forcefully, five times.
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In another instance in Yakima, Washington, in late March, Tony Yan was checking up on his restaurant, Minado Buffet, which he had closed in concordance with the states shelter-in-place directive.
Lisa Li, his wife and co-owner, said the windows were broken and a message was spray-painted in black on the restaurants exterior: Take the corona back you chink.
Hes very angry and upset, their son Nianzu Yan, a Seattle University student, said. When I heard about it, it was sad and disappointing, but I didnt feel all that surprised. I had never experienced racism like that.
With insurance, Yan said it will cost $1,000 to fix the damage to the restaurant.
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In the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California, home to one of the largest Asian American populations in the country, Josh Fleagane and Madeline Yang said they were driving in Pasadena on March 13 when they saw a defaced Mulan movie poster.
Josh Fleagane and Madeline Yang said they were driving in Pasadena last month when they saw a defaced "Mulan" movie poster.Courtesy Josh Fleagane
It was on the opposite side of the street, so we made a U-turn," Fleagane said. "It was important to document."
A white mask was spray-painted over Mulans mouth, as well as the words Toxic, Made in Wuhan.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/smashed-windows-racist-graffiti-vandals-target-asian-americans-amid-coronavirus-n1180556
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Smashed windows and racist graffiti: Vandals target Asian Americans amid coronavirus (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Apr 2020
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)1. Sometimes people really suck.
Dan
(3,554 posts)2. Well I don't know who did this terrible thing to "Jade Garden',
In the International District in Seattle, but for those that dont know, there are a couple plus large homeless camps within close proximity of International District. Combined with closer proximity to King Countys Jail. And from experience, at night in the southern part of downtown Seattle - the animals do come out.
Archae
(46,326 posts)3. Racism changes targets, but stays the same.
Stupid, illogical, and helps no one.
Cha
(297,184 posts)4. trump breeders.