Op-Ed: Why the Monterey Park shooting feels like an attack on Asian America
1 year, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: Why the Monterey Park shooting feels like an attack on Asian America

LA Times  

For thousands of fellow Asian Americans, Monterey Park is our home — even if we don’t live there. Monterey Park represents Asian America, today — how far we’ve come and how we’ve built community despite encountering barrier after barrier. By the early 1990s, Monterey Park became majority-Asian, with Chinese culture on full display and an array of Asian businesses to patronize. Saturday’s mass shooting in Monterey Park rattled Asian America.

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