Asian-American Congress Members Say U.S. Is at ’Crisis Point We Can’t Ignore’

A congressional commitee is holding a hearing on discrimination and violence against Asian Americans following a wave of assaults that have coincided with the pandemic. Asian Americans were already worn down by a year of pandemic-fueled racist attacks when a white gunman was charged with killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. The chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Democratic Rep. Judy Chu said Thursday, “the Asian-American community has reached a crisis point that cannot be ignored.“