As the debate over what legally qualifies as anti-Asian bias unfolds, the community is grappling with the reality that the law is simply not designed to account for many of the ways in which Asian Americans experience racism.
Don Lee, a community activist, in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York on March 11, 2021. Lee has been calling for more anti-Asian attacks to be publicly identified as hate crimes.
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