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it's often been said, and it is true.

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Donald Trump demonized and pitted our immigrant communities against each

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other during this pandemic. He scapegoated our community with

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references that you've heard. He emboldened his supporters,

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allowing racism to fester. Unfortunately, when you have

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leadership that allows hatemongering, it gives license for communities

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to come out and hate. And the only way

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we stamp out hate as a community is to come

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together, and not just as an Asian American community

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, because an L G B T community as an

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African American communities, Latino community as the women's community

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, all our communities coming together to say that this

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type of behavior to stop the hate, this type

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of violence, these types of murders are 1000% completely

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unacceptable. We are affected by what we say.

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That has an impact. And unfortunately, some folks

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allowed the president, United States, to fan the

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flames of racial hatred against Asian and Pacific Islanders for

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four years for four years, and people did not

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stand up against it. So the first and most

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powerful thing we can do is to say we're not

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going to continents that anymore. It's too dangerous,

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It's too violent. It's too harmful to everyone