The Board of Directors and Staff of the Chinese American Museum are sickened by the news that eight innocent victims, including six Asian American women, were murdered at the hands of a gunman who went on a killing spree March 16, targeting three Atlanta, Georgia area spas.

Our hearts are broken over these senseless deaths, and we grieve alongside the families and friends of the victims.

Even as we mourn, we are outraged! As a community, we know that the pandemic is the excuse that these haters are using to justify and carry out their despicable deeds. These acts have brought to light the underlying culture of hate that the Chinese American community and other communities of color continually endure. The love-hate relationship of how our people are viewed, either the dirty foreigner or the model minority, results in our men being ridiculed as weak and our women sexualized.

This systematic acceptance of hate has now risen to the surface, with the harmful rhetoric becoming the norm, leading to deadly consequences.

The organization ‘Stop AAPI Hate’ has documented 3,800 accounts of harassment, verbal attacks, and violence from all 50 states, especially violence directed at our helpless elders. The statistics substantiated our fears that anti-Asian sentiment has been intensifying since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

The leadership of the Chinese American Museum stands against hate! We are dedicated to proactively assisting and educating the public to recognize and help eradicate race-based crimes in all its forms.

If you are a victim of Anti-Asian hate and/or incidents, please contact and report it to one of these organizations dedicated to assisting victims:

OCA Asian Pacific American Advocates Hate Incident Reporting: aapihatecrimes.org
Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center: stopaapihate.org
Asian Americans Advancing Justice’s Stand Against Hatred: standagainsthatred.org
ADL Hate Tracker: adl.org/reportincident
Los Angeles vs. Hate: lavshate.org
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – Civil Rights/Hate Crimes: www.fbi.gov/contact-us
National Center for Victims of Crime provides resources to victims of crime: victimsofcrime.org/
L.A. County 211 community services hub: https://new.211la.org/form/anti-hate

華美博物館全體董事及職員對於近日發生的槍擊殺戮事件感到厭惡不安。一名槍手於3月16日分別向喬治亞州亞特蘭大的3家按摩水療中心進行射殺，造成8名無辜者受害，當中包括6名亞裔婦女。

我們對於這些無辜遇害者痛心難過，我們對受害者家人和朋友的悲傷感同身受。

我們感到悲哀，我們也感到憤怒！作為一個社區，我們深深明暸，流行病是這些仇恨犯罪者用來掩飾及進行其卑鄙行為的藉口。這些行為揭露了美國華人社區和其他有色人種社區持續忍受著潛在的仇恨文化。他們看待我們的眼光充斥著愛與恨，無論是骯髒的外國人、或是模範少數民族，都會導致我們族群中的的男性被嘲笑為軟弱，女性被嘲笑為性愛。

這種仇恨意識有系統地被人們接受並於目前浮出水面，各種傷害的言論逐漸成為常態，最終發生致命的後果。

「停止針對亞太裔的仇恨」 (Stop AAPI Hate)組織記錄了來自全美50個州的3,800宗騷擾、語言攻擊和暴力事件，特別是針對我們無助長者的暴力行為。統計數據證實了我們的擔憂，即自2020年3月疫情大流行以來，反亞裔情緒持續加劇。

華美博物館的領導階層反對仇恨！我們致力積極協助和教育民眾，去認知和幫助消除一切形式的族裔仇恨犯罪。

若大家是反亞裔仇恨和/或事件中的受害者，請向下列任何一家組織提交報告，讓他們向受害者提供支援：

美華協會美國亞太裔倡議仇恨事件報告：aapihatecrimes.org
「停止針對亞太裔的仇恨」 舉報中心： stopaapihate.org
美國亞裔倡倡正義反對仇恨：standagainsthatred.org
反誹謗聯盟仇恨跟進：adl.org/reportincident
洛杉磯與仇恨：lavshate.org
聯邦調查局（FBI）–公民權利/仇恨犯罪：www.fbi.gov/contact-us
國家罪案受害者中心為罪案受害者提供資源：victimsofcrime.org/
洛杉磯縣211社區服務中心：https://new.211la.org/form/anti-hate