No one wants to sing that old song. And it’s time to make the tough decision. Maybe you’ll be like some bullheaded schools that insist normalcy shall take place.
Or maybe you’ll be like Rice.
But first, let me bring to your attention something I noticed in social media.
Did your school get all self-righteous about diversity when reports showed that Asian Americans were being scapegoated and attacked during the pandemic?
How about when the six Korean American women were gunned down in Atlanta? (The killer, Robert Aaron Long, makes an appearance in Fulton County, Ga., this week).
How about when the number of hate incidents against AAPI since the pandemic began throughout the country, ranging from verbal harassment to murder, is now around 9,000? That’s a number from StopAAPIHate, a consortium run out of the San Francisco State University College of Ethnic Studies.
Emil Guillermo
Given all that, did your school hire more Asian American Studies teachers and scholars? That’s causing some real buzz in social media.
