At a hate crimes summit — “Prevention & Protection: Keeping Our AAPI Community Safe” — hosted by San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, Justice Goodwin Liu opened up about how anti-Asian prejudice affected him personally. As Tyler Pialet reports in the Daily Journal, Justice Liu recounted how elementary school classmates embarrassed him about the lunches his mom would pack for him and he said that discrimination has continued throughout his life, including still being complimented on his ability to speak English.
Speaking broadly, Liu talked of the law’s limitations to end structural racism. The article quotes him pinpointing “a set of social norms” as underlying racial violence. “It is about what our leaders say, and what they should be saying. It is about how we are portrayed on television and in the movies and in art. It is what our teachers and our parents teach our kids, just like when I was a kid experiencing the school lunch problem.”
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