Educators, Your Asian Students Could Use Your Support

When Michelle Go and Christina Yuna Lee were murdered in New York City earlier this year, followed by targeted attacks on Asian women, I was still a student at Columbia Journalism School. Living in Manhattan, I became fearful. In class, I expressed my anxiety around taking the subways in broad daylight. My professor, a white man, casually responded, “Don’t jump to think that they are hate crimes. It could’ve happened to any woman of any race.”