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 BRONX TIMES REPORTER, M 12     ARCH 26-APR. 1, 2021 
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 BY BRONX TIMES 
 Arguably, the worst aspect of our  
 modern era is the politicization of both  
 a global pandemic and of hate. 
 The issues of our health and respect  
 of one another in society should  
 be a universally shared belief, regardless  
 of race, creed, color or party affi liation. 
  We should want to protect each  
 other from a plague; we should want to  
 stop spreading hate and instead promote  
 kindness and justice for all. 
 But that’s not where we are in  
 America in 2021. We are a society split  
 in two factions: those who respect  
 each other, and those who only respect  
 themselves. One side cares to solve  
 two of the biggest issues of our time;  
 the other side couldn’t care less about  
 them. 
 Look at the rash of hate crimes targeting  
 Asian Americans both in New  
 York and throughout the country.  
 Slurs that the former president trumpeted  
 throughout  the  COVID-19  pandemic  
 last  year  fueled  an  ugly  backlash  
 that continues to this day. 
 Over the weekend, as hundreds  
 protested the most recent rash of hate  
 crimes, an elderly man was beaten up  
 by a bigot on the Lower East Side; and  
 a protester was attacked by a hatefi  
 lled brute in NoHo who stomped on  
 the sign she carried, then punched her  
 repeatedly in the face. 
 It’s refl ective of the kind of ignorance  
 that has permeated the country  
 during the pandemic. The simple act of  
 wearing a mask to protect other people  
 was wrongly confl ated into a debate  
 over  personal  freedom.  Business  closures, 
  painful as they were, were also  
 roped into the false debate. 
 And there fi gures  to  be  more  ignorance  
 to come now with media outlets  
 reporting on what they’ve dubbed  
 as  “the  crisis on  the border.”  It  is  indeed  
 a humanitarian crisis, but the  
 response to this is not one of concern  
 over the welfare of migrants coming  
 into America. 
 The same people on the right who  
 condoned the former administration’s  
 jailing of immigrant children are  
 again  smearing migrants on our border  
 as some sort of foreign invasion to  
 be stopped. That will only kindle more  
 acts  of  hatred  in  this  country —  and  
 they don’t seem to care. 
 Enough is enough! 
 We cannot allow this ignorance to  
 continue. We must rise up and drown  
 it out. 
 Speak up, New York! Say no to hate,  
 ignorance and bloodshed. Say yes to  
 unity, justice, tolerance and equality. 
 Put an end to ignorance  
 in New York City 
 
				
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