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About four-in-ten Black and Asian adults say people have acted as if they were uncomfortable around them because of their race or ethnicity. America's racial reckoning has reignited conversations about anti-Blackness, privilege and solidarity within the Asian American community. Van Jones writes that Black solidarity with the Asian American community is no surprise to those who know the long history of America's.

 · OAKLAND, Calif. — This spring, Black political leaders and civil rights activists delivered a message to Asian Americans: We stand with you. Asian American activists and political leaders responded in kind, publicly acknowledging the daily reality of racism faced by Black people. The two groups were reacting to violence aimed at their communities.  · Why the trope of Black-Asian conflict in the face of anti-Asian violence dismisses solidarity. A recent survey shows that more than three out of four Asian Americans worry about experiencing hate.  · I have seen a black woman berate an Asian man as a "f***ing Chinese person" on a Greyhound bus traveling between New York and Washington, D.C. The recipient of the verbal abuse was Korean.

Black Americans have been disproportionately killed by the police, while Asian Americans are among the least likely to be harmed in police encounters, according to multiple studies. Hate crimes against Asian people rose 73 percent in , according to the F.B.I. The police killed Black people in the United States this year, compared with. In the spring, there was a “lot of support” for Black and Asian people to achieve change together, said JaMae Rooks, 29, a co-director of Atlanta’s Black Lives Matter chapter. Why the trope of Black-Asian conflict in the face of anti-Asian violence dismisses solidarity. A recent survey shows that more than three out of four Asian Americans worry about experiencing hate.

Asian American activists and political leaders responded in kind, publicly acknowledging the daily reality of racism faced by Black people. The two groups were reacting to violence aimed at their communities. That included the police killing of George Floyd last year in Minneapolis, which led to a surge in the Black Lives Matter movement. In March, a gunman killed eight people at Atlanta spas, six of whom were Asian women, amid a spree of anti-Asian attacks. The two groups, which historically have been divided by racial tensions and socioeconomic inequality, promised to cooperate to reduce violence and discrimination against people of color.