SAN FRANCISCO — Russell Jeung's family was forcibly removed from their homes in Monterey, California, in the late 1800s.
"When the townspeople wanted the Chinese out, the landlord evicted them. When the Chinese wouldn't leave, a fire burned down the entire village," Jeung, co-founder of the Stop AAPI Hate group, told ABC News.They found a new home in San Francisco's Chinatown,"as the only place of safety against that racism," Jeung said. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, that safe haven became a target of anti-Asian racism.
This is markedly higher than the number of reported hate crimes during the same period of time, which advocates say are undercounted. "Although I have come to a place of forgiveness, there's still pain and feelings of grief that wells up occasionally," Yee, the granddaughter of Yik Oi Huang, said in an interview with ABC News. Her grandmother died a year after the attack.
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