By Leonardo Castañeda, The Mercury News, June 19, 2021
Aggie Yellow Horse’s son had just turned 1 when she saw the news in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic about an Asian American family, including a 2-year-old, being attacked and stabbed at Sam’s Club in Midland, Texas.
The suspect had targeted the family because he believed they were Chinese and spreading COVID-19, the FBI said, an early case in a growing wave of hate initially set off in part by racist conspiracies about the coronavirus.
The attack hit a painful chord for Yellow Horse with her young family, so when the second-generation Korean-American professor was offered a chance a few weeks later to volunteer with the San Francisco-based Stop AAPI Hate project, she jumped on it. Her work involves reading the stories sent in by community members, filtering out trolls and cleaning the data for analysis.
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