The leaders say L.A. has a history of using Asian Angelenos to inflame racial tensions and score political points.
“Too often, it has been the AAPI community that's been that racial buffer, or that racial scapegoat to inflame and agitate the masses and to get more votes,” Kim said.
“Do not use AAPI’s as scapegoats as a way to win your campaign that will do irreparable harm to Los Angeles, especially now,” Chu said.issued this week by the group Stop AAPI Hate drew a line between hate incidents and discriminatory language about China, in particular, used by candidates and elected officials from both parties to play on fears about COVID-19 and downturns in the economy.
The group of AAPI leaders also demanded that all of the officials who made racist remarks on the leaked audio step down. “We are at a very raw point in the city of Los Angeles, where feelings are at an all time high of anger and outrage,” Chu said.
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