Stephen A. Smith is in a HUGE quagmire this week after saying MLB baseball star Shohei Ohtani — who is Japanese — is “harming” the marketing of professional baseball in America because he “doesn’t speak English.” Smith made the comments on ESPN‘s popular Monday daytime sports debate show First Take, where he and co-host Max Kellerman were discussing the MLB […]
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BTS Reflects On Anti-Asian Discrimination They’ve Faced Amid Rise Of Hate Crimes, Talk Being ‘Mocked For The Way We Look’
BTS, one of the world’s largest K-pop bands, is speaking out on the rise of anti-Asian violence following recent and deadly acts of racial discrimination in the US. In a new post shared to social media, the group comprised of Jungkook, V, Jimin, Jin, Suga, RM, and J-Hope condemned hate crimes based on race while […]
Meghan McCain Apologizes After John Oliver DRAGS Her For Supporting Trump’s Racist CHY-NA VIRUS Talk
The tragic events of last week have had a lot of folks talking about a form of racism that often goes unspoken in the US. After a white man killed eight people, including six Asian women, at a series of massage parlors in Atlanta, it’s really brought the rise of anti-Asian violence over the past […]
Sandra Oh Delivers Emotional Speech At Stop AAPI Hate Rally: ‘I’m Proud To Be Asian’
Sandra Oh is speaking out just days after eight people were killed in the deadly shooting at three Atlanta-area spas. On Saturday, the Grey’s Anatomy alum stopped by a Stop AAPI Hate rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to deliver a very important message to a mask-covered crowd. In a video making the rounds on social media, […]
Daniel Dae Kim Denounces Anti-Asian Hate Crimes In Powerful Speech To Congress!
Enough is enough. On Thursday, Lost alum Daniel Dae Kim addressed Congress about Anti-Asian hate, especially related to Tuesday night’s Atlanta shootings, which took the lives of eight people, six of whom were Asian women. In a poignant speech referencing the recent hate crimes, the 52-year-old expressed via a virtual call: “We as Asian Americans […]
Celebs Speak Out After Eight Killed — Including Six Asian Women — In Atlanta-Area Spa Shootings
[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] There are no words for this kind of tragedy. On Tuesday evening, eight people were shot to death in the Atlanta, Georgia area at three separate massage parlors. Six of the victims were Asian, leading authorities to originally suspect the shootings were part of a wave of recent Anti-Asian hate crimes that have […]