San Francisco apologizes for historical anti-Asian racism; 4th California city to do so

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously accredited a decision apologizing to Chinese language-People within the metropolis for historic racism, turning into the fourth California metropolis within the final yr to take action, based on a report. 

The Northern California metropolis has a big Asian inhabitants and the nation’s oldest Chinatown. The decision coincided with the Tuesday’s begin of the Lunar New 12 months.

The decision apologizes for “systemic and structural discrimination” and violence concentrating on Chinese language immigrants associated to historic resolutions from previous board supervisors calling for harassment of Chinese language residents and restrictions on Chinese language laundries. 

‘Uncommon noise’

One historic ordinance prevented using conventional gong percussion devices in efficiency as a result of the devices produced an “uncommon noise disturbing the peace.” 

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Supervisor Matt Haney, the chief sponsor of the decision, rallied Wednesday with Chinese language-American civic leaders for elevated investments within the Asian neighborhood.

Different actions

In 2021, Los Angeles, San Jose and Antioch handed comparable resolutions and President Biden additionally signed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act after it was handed by Congress.

The anti-hate measures come amid an increase in anti-Asian crime related at the least partly to misplaced blame surrounding the Chinese language origins of the coronavirus. 

Greater than a 3rd of San Francisco’s 900,000 residents are of Asian descent, with a majority of Chinese language descent.  

The Related Press contributed to this report.