San Francisco, which excluded Chinese Americans from much of the city through the 19th and early 20th centuries, is the latest in California to issue an apology.
crimes. About 60 Asian Americans were victims of reported hate crimes in 2021, up from nine in 2020, according to the city’s police department.
“Discriminatory policies the San Francisco Board of Supervisors have passed, all of which were eventually overturned by state and federal courts, continue to have lingering impacts on our city, particularly its API community,” Supervisor Matt Haney, who sponsored the resolution, said at a committee meeting last week, using an acronym for Asian and Pacific Islander. “This formal apology is long overdue.
Still, many community advocates noted that the city’s Asian American neighborhoods are reeling from the pandemic.
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