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“#Daniel Dae Kim Denounces Anti-Asian Hate Crimes In Powerful Speech To Congress!
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\nEnough is enough.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Lost<\/em> alum Daniel Dae Kim<\/strong> addressed Congress about Anti-Asian hate, especially related to Tuesday night\u2019s Atlanta shootings, which took the lives of eight people, six of whom were Asian women. In a poignant speech referencing the recent hate crimes, the 52-year-old expressed via a virtual call:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe as Asian Americans have come to this country because we believe in the American dream. Many of us have succeeded. And some of us are even the frontline health care workers upon all whom we\u2019ve come to depend during this terrible pandemic. But many of us are struggling, too. In fact, the wealth disparity between the richest Asian Americans and the poorest is the largest of any ethnic group in America. In New York, Asian Americans have a higher poverty rate than any other minority group. Fully one in four are living below the poverty line. And poverty rates among Asian American seniors are much higher than the national average. That\u2019s something to consider as we watch the most vulnerable in our community get taunted, pushed, slashed, and murdered. Despite this wide disparity of experience, we continue to be tagged the model minority. We simply cannot continue to live with the myth that the most successful of us represent the totality of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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His plea, which included the names of Asian-Americans who had passed or were horrifically injured, comes just six months after Daniel argued in favor of HR-908, a resolution to call \u201con all public officials to condemn and denounce anti-Asian sentiment<\/a>, racism, discrimination, and religious intolerance related to COVID-19.\u201d The bill eventually passed, but shockingly without a single vote from the GOP.<\/p>\n

He recalled:<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of you may remember I that I was with you just this past September discussing the importance of diversity in American media<\/a>. I was disheartened to find that for a bill that required no money or resources, just a simple condemnation of acts of hate against people of Asian descent, 164 members of Congress\u2013all Republican\u2013voted against it\u2026 I\u2019m not naive enough to think that I\u2019m going to convince all of you to stand up for us \u2014 trust me, I\u2019ve seen your voting records. But I am speaking to those to whom humanity still matters. There are moments in a country\u2019s history that chart its course indelibly for the future. For Asian Americans, that moment is now. What happ<\/a>ens right now and over the course of the coming months will send a message for generations to come as to whether we matter, whether the country we call home chooses to erase us, or include us, dismiss us, or respect us, invisible-ize us, or see us. Because you may consider us as statistically insignificant now, but one more fact that has no alternative is that we are the fastest growing racial demographic in the country. We are 23 million strong. We are united, and we are waking up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, in the wake of Captain Jay Baker<\/strong>\u2019s explanation that the suspect, Robert Aaron Long<\/strong>, had a \u201creally bad day\u201d prior to the mass murder, Kim had this to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cI will tell you to start that when I have a bad day, I think about going home, having a beer and watching a movie with my family. I don\u2019t think about going out and murdering eight people. And it says a lot about this person that when he says he\u2019s trying to eliminate temptation from his life, instead of seeking help for himself, his way of eliminating temptation is to kill people, to take a gun and shoot people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In fact, he even called out Baker\u2019s controversial past when it comes to Anti-Asian hate himself.<\/p>\n

\u201c[He] tweeted out t-shirts making fun of coronavirus and connecting it to China. This is a person who has a direct connection to the shooter of eight people. He is not impartial. So it calls into question the veracity of his position.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As of Thursday, the Captain was removed as a spokesperson for the case, which has brought light to the rise of Anti-Asian hate in the US following Trump<\/strong>\u2019s racist claims the coronavirus was the \u201cKung Flu.\u201d It has also called attention to gun laws since the shooter bought his weapon on the same \u201cbad day\u201d as the violent crime.<\/p>\n

In a press conference Wednesday, Sheriff\u00a0Frank Reynolds<\/strong> reported the suspect had indicated \u201csome issues, potentially sexual addiction,\u201d which is why he had \u201cfrequented some of these places in the past.\u201d But Kim (obviously) did not accept Robert\u2019s \u201csexual temptation\u201d trigger as an appropriate reason for the public not to be addressing the Atlanta shootings as a \u201chate crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Hawaii Five-O<\/em> star wondered:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does it mean when he sees the manifestation of sexual temptation as an Asian female? These are three places all that had an association with Asian people. If this was a synagogue or a Black church, and somebody shot up those places, would we really be asking whether this was a hate crime or not?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Daniel is just the latest celeb to take his deeply personal pain to a public stage in hopes of enacting true justice and real change. On Monday, Stop AAPI Hate<\/strong> released a statement condemning the actions that took the lives of the spa workers, and many other celebrities used their voice to speak up for the Asian community in the aftermath of this tragedy.<\/p>\n

Sending love to all those mourning the loss of these innocent victims gone too soon. We must all rise up together to combat these blatant examples of racism within our country!! We simply cannot let mass murder become an acceptable way to handle a \u201cbad day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the speech (below):<\/p>\n