Korean-American actor Daniel Dae-Kim talks about her Asian racial discrimination experience on CNN. CNN capture
As the state of Asian racial discrimination in the U.S. is being re-examined in the serial shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, where 8 people, including 4 Korean women, were killed, celebrities are concentrating on anti-Asian violence. In particular, Asian figures introduced their personal experiences and appealed for solidarity.
Korean-American actor Daniel vs. Kim (Kim Dae-hyun), who appeared in the ABC drama’Lost’ with actor Kim Yoon-jin and is familiar to domestic fans, appeared on CNN on the 17th (local time) and revealed that her younger sister is also a victim of hate crimes in Asia.
Kim appeared on CNN’s’Quomo Prime Time’ that night, referring to the Atlanta shootings that took place the day before, and confessed like this.
He said about his sister’s fatal accident in 2015, “While my sister was running near the house, a man drove up and shouted to go to the sidewalk instead of the shoulder. Even though the younger brother went to India, the man hit her sister from behind by car. “The younger brother asked the man,’Are you hitting me now?”
Kim criticized that the investigators who were in charge of his brother’s case at the time did not recognize it as a hate crime. He added, “Even though the perpetrator had a history of assaulting other Asian women, only the charges of violent driving were applied to the perpetrator.”
“This is a part of our history,” Kim said. “When I heard that there was no link between racism and this (Atlanta) incident, I felt skeptical.”
On the 18th, he attended the shooting case hearing held at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and expressed its position on the Korean side. 23 million of us are united and awakening,” he emphasized solidarity.
“Hate remarks while covering hate crimes targeting Asians”
CNN anchor Amara Thornwalker
A Korean CNN reporter also reported that he had experienced listening to hate speeches of Asians on the street during a coverage of the Atlanta shootings.
Reporter Amara Son Walker told CNN Tonight host Don Lehman, “While preparing to broadcast live in Atlanta, I heard someone passing by by car shouting’virus’ to us.”
Walker said he had experienced racism three times in an hour at the Louisiana airport he visited for travel after an interview in October last year. On Walker’s Twitter, “I really hate having to say this. I’m Asian-American. I was born and raised in America. Please don’t ask if I’m American.”
According to the count of’Stop AAPI Heights’, an Asian hate crime reporting site, there were 3,795 Asian hate damage cases in the past year after Corona 19. As a result, following last year’s black human rights movement’Black Lives Matter (BLM)’, a social network service (SNS) centered on the appeal for Asian human rights,’#StopAsianHate’, It is pouring, according to the US media.
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