'We are tired of being invisible, of being mistaken for our colleague or told our struggles aren't as real.'
for ESPN in which she opened up about being profiled and feeling unsafe in public during the pandemic.UCLA guard Natalie Chou makes a pass during a college basketball game in Austin, Texas, March 22, 2021.
"Whenever a disease came from Asia, Asians get blamed for it. They face violence and racist policies," he said."That happened with the diseases of smallpox, malaria and leprosy and the 19th century. It happened with the bubonic plague in 1900. It happened with SARS in 2003, most recently." This is a common thread in some of the reflections of Asian American athletes, as they opened up about how their Americanness continues to be questioned.Toronto Raptors' Jeremy Lin stands on the court during the second half of the team's NBA basketball game against the New York Knicks in New York, March 28, 2019.
Washington State's Pat Chun, the first Asian American athletic director at a Power Five school, told ABC News that Asian Americans continue to be underrepresented in athletics and"a lot of times you just feel kind of isolated." This energy is reflected in some of the accounts of Asian American athletes who candidly shared their experiences and spoken out in support of the AAPI community.
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