CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/RACISM: “In the past several months, countless Asian Americans have been punched and kicked and threatened, told that they’ll be sorry if they don’t leave this country — their country. They’ve been blamed for COVID-19: yelled at by strangers in parking lots, refused service at stores and needlessly, cruelly scapegoated by the most powerful man on the planet, President Donald Trump, who has racialized the pandemic and stoked xenophobia every time he’s uttered the term ‘Chinese virus.'”
-Joe Biden and Tammy Duckworth, “Joe Biden and Sen. Tammy Duckworth Trump’s encouragement of racism against Asian Americans is an affront to all Americans,” nbcnews.com, May 27, 2020