Atlanta, New York, Washington ... Thousands of Americans demonstrated this weekend against anti-Asian racism, after the deadly shootings at massage parlors in Georgia.
Xing Hua, an Asian American, said she was "very angry" that Tuesday's bloodshed had not yet been described as "racist" by the police.
“The fact is that six Asian women have died,” denounces the thirty-something in Washington, the capital of the United States, where several hundred demonstrators gathered on Sunday.
Arrested Tuesday after opening fire in three Asian massage parlors in Atlanta and its suburbs, Robert Aaron Long admitted the facts and was charged with murder.
During his interrogation, he denied any racist motive, presenting himself as a "sex addict" eager to suppress "a temptation".
"I am not a temptation"
, criticizes Kat, 31, on her placard, regretting the hypersexualization of Asian women.
“I've been accosted by men on dating apps who tell me,
'
I need to cure my yellow fever
,' she says.
Racism on the rise under Donald Trump?
In New York City, the city's mayoral candidate and former Democratic presidential primary contender Andrew Yang, son of Taiwanese immigrants, on Sunday urged protesters to raise their hands if they had felt an upsurge in acts racist since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a virus that Donald Trump has repeatedly called the “Chinese plague”.
Hundreds of raised hands responded in the affirmative.
Hundreds of people also marched Sunday afternoon in Montreal, Canada.
"We are demonstrating against years of anti-Asian racism, fomented by a white supremacist president in the United States who insisted on labeling the virus as the Chinese virus, which has encouraged hatred and attacks against all kinds of oppressed minorities.
" , said of Donald Trump, May Chiu, of the progressive Chinese group of Quebec, and organizer of the march.