ABC10 - Empowering Sacramento communities to address anti-Asian hate

"Folks would say to me, Mai, this is not Sacramento. and I would tell them that this is Sacramento,” said Sacramento City Councilmember, Mai Vang. She said one of the first steps in stopping AAPI-Hate is addressing the reality of it. 

Vang added that the "model minority myth" perpetuates divisive stereotypes.

"It ends up masking, hate incidents and trauma and disparities within our own communities,” she said. 

So too are some generational practices among older Asian Americans who prefer to lay low, and keep silent. 

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