Residents of Oakland, CA have stepped up to help elderly Asian-Americans who are facing hate crimes just for being Asian.
Like so many others, they're appalled to see that knuckle-dragging racists are hurting Asian-American individuals with the idea that it’s revenge against China for the COVID19 virus.
Since the Pandemic began, more than 3,000 Asians have been affected or attacked by these haters, and some have even been killed. After an 84-year-old man died in San Francisco after being shoved to the ground, virtually everyone in the Bay Area with a trace of compassion was appalled by such brutal and misguided crime.
Jacob Azevedo of Oakland responded with an Instagram post offering to accompany any Asian-American in Oakland's Chinatown when they had to go out in public, to help them feel safe. Hundreds of other people followed his lead.
One of the people who spotted Azevedo's post was Jess Owyoung, a fourth-generation Chinese-American born in the Bay Area. She contacted him and the pair, along with four others, founded “Compassion in Oakland” in February.
As of March 8, the organization has 700 volunteers to escort elderly Asian-Americans around town. The group also helps with translation and police reports. And they're helping form additional chapters elsewhere in the U.S.
Owyoung says that the volunteers are of all ages and all ethnicities. "It's a beautiful conversation that we have together about our individual experiences....[with our] commonalities and differences.
"But it's what makes America so wonderful."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asian-american-seniors-california-volunteers-escort/
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