Amid anti-Asian hate crime spike, AAPI
groups get $20M from New York State
Posted By: Ribicon, 5/1/2022 7:23:50 PM
Asian-American groups are getting $20 million in the new New York State budget to fight an alarming tide of hate crimes that has shaken local communities. The money in the $220 billion annual budget deal falls short of the amount Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations had sought, but it doubles last year’s funding. “The Asian American community has never been properly accounted for in the state budget,” state Sen. John Liu told the Daily News Sunday. “The need is unprecedented because everybody is painfully aware of the anti-Asian hate that has accompanied COVID,” the Queens Democrat said. Complaints of anti-Asian hate crimes more than tripled
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Only $20 million, and not $30 million or even $50 million? For shame. Meanwhile, they blame the 'Rona and the word "black" appears nowhere in this article, and there's no thought given to demanding that bLACK Lives Matter pay the hush money. And of course there's no funding earmarked for White people, even though they've been targeted for years by bLACK hate criminals, ramping up very sharply during the reign of Queen Barry.