150 members of Congress demand U.S. Justice Dept. action against anti-Asian racism.
He added,"We did not understand why the Department of Justice wasn't doing more in countering hate crimes."
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division laid down a three-part plan following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to protect communities that were dealing with similar racist attacks. The plan included outreach to the communities, including Sikhs, Muslims, South Asians and other Americans who were targeted by discrimination, as well as coordination of civil rights enforcement across agencies. Similar efforts, however, have not been made during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"It's fine and appropriate to criticize China. What they did at the beginning with this virus — China absolutely should not have suppressed information about this virus or lied about the virus. Those initial actions are not defensible," Lieu said."That's very different than calling it the 'kung flu' or calling it 'the Chinese virus,' because that leads to, first of all, making a joke of this pandemic, which he shouldn't be doing.
"It's clear that Donald Trump started to resort to xenophobic, anti-immigrant and racist actions when he started to sag in the polls. He started to embrace the Confederacy. He started to again use statements about the pandemic that negatively affected Asian Americans," he said."It'd be great if the president condemned racism, but I just want him to stop making his own racist statements. If he could do that, that'd be very helpful," Lieu said.
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