Commentary One day, my 17-year-old daughter showed me a Facebook post that said 74.5 percent of hate crimes between 1992 and 2014 against Asian Americans were from white offenders. The purpose of the post was to ask Asians to fight alongside the Black Lives Matter movement to “improve minority communities.” I reminded her to check online the percentage of white people in the U.S. population. It was 76.3 percent in 2019 according to Census.gov. “Look, the percentage of white offenders is less than the percentage of white population, even if the statistics are correct,” I said. Actually, I have read several media reports talking about the surge of attacks against Asian Americans recently. Some reports blamed President Trump and “white supremacists” for the attacks, without any factual evidence. I used this as an opportunity to converse with my daughter: “You need to be careful and know how to protect yourself. …
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