Almost all the suspects in recent high-profile attacks against Asian Americans are from minority groups. Here
I guess I signal my "White Fragility" by even posting this. Information on what's actually happening in these attacks. But; stubborn things, facts.
Zaid Jilani, himself an Asian-American reveals the inconvenient truth behind a rash of attacks on minorities in America: that they are mostly carried out by other minorities, and in the case of attacks on Asian-Americans they are carried out predominantly by African-Americans.
But may not even be because of race hatred:
We don’t know how many of the attacks are even motivated by ethnic hatred to begin with. Yahya Muslim, an African-American man who is the center of one of the highest-profile attacks on Asian Americans, is reportedly homeless and mentally ill and prosecutors have yet to bring hate crime charges against him.
Over the past year, we’ve seen a huge spike in violent crime, particularly shootings and homicides. It’s possible that these crimes against Asian Americans are simply part of a larger crime wave that is making major American cities increasingly unsafe.
Some of these crimes, however, involved explicit invocations of anti-Asian hatred. One Seattle court filing from January I reviewed described Samuel Green shoving Asian American Kathyrn Yeager ‘so hard it knocked the wind out of her’ while saying ‘Asians need to be put in [their] place.’ Again, Green is not a white supremacist. He is black.
It’s hard to know Green’s exact motivations, but we know that for years, Asians have been stereotyped as greedy entrepreneurs and interlopers for owning and operate businesses in inner-city communities. This stereotyping has created resentment that sometimes explodes into violence.
