The piece goes on to talk about the concerns and fears of Asian-American golfers “at a time when Asians have been scapegoated in American communities for the spread of the coronavirus.” Locating the source of racist bias and violence in “American communities,” with no mention of powerful politicians or powerful media, is a neat way to sidestep the role of systemic, structural racism, and imply that bias or “hate” is an individual, emotional issue, rather than one we can and should address together, across community, as a society. Add in media’s frequent prescription of law enforcement as the primary response, and you have what a large number of Asian Americans are calling a problem presenting itself as a solution, and not a way forward that actually makes them safer. We’ll talk about anti-Asian bias and underexplored responses to it with Bianca Nozaki-Nasser, from the group 18 Million Rising. Transcript: ‘If Police Made Asian Americans Safe, We’d Already Be Safe’Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at coverage of theft—retail and wholesale. Featured image: Solidarity Against Hate Crimes march, March 20, 2021, Columbus, Ohio (cc photo: Paul Becker)