Asian Hate: An American Tradition

Jericho Turnpike
4 min readOct 14, 2021
Photo by Kareem Hayes on Unsplash

When a U. S. president made bigotted statements, such as referring to COVID-19 as the Chinese Virus, it truly pissed me off. It was hardly the first, nor the last thing that that particular vile human spewed or did that angered me. The sad thing is, that awful man had plenty of Americans before him that were also disrespectful of members of the Asian race.

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Jericho Turnpike

Former Air Force staff sergeant, learning disabilities specialist, high school assistant principal, special education director, and husband. Gay dad of three.