Mrs Helen Fung, honorary chair of Community Cohesion Advocates CIC, governor of London Hackney Chinese community school and Dr Bonnie Kwok (right), headteacher of London Hackney Chinese community school, East Croydon. Over the past year there has been a significant rise in hate crime against people of east Asian appearance. “I think Covid has definitely brought about certain incidences and these kind of strange suspicions of east Asian people,” she said. The 28-year-old said the pandemic became an excuse for people to be actively racist towards the east Asian community. “The east Asian community is one which doesn’t like to speak up or is afraid to.

Source: The Guardian May 19, 2021 04:52 UTC