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Like so many of us in our campus community—and like Chancellor Marks, who immediately voiced her condemnation of the Atlanta area murders—I am deeply heartbroken and enraged by the continued rise in violent hate attacks against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. The horrific recent murders in the Atlanta area have shattered countless lives and have once more exposed what is a centuries-old racism, misogyny, and xenophobia toward the AAPI community. Reading of a 9-year-old having to calm herself in the wake of her father’s shooting, as she watched him being rushed away in an ambulance, or our venerated elders physically assaulted over and over should be evidence enough to spur us to action to stop what is a deep multi-generational anguish and call for justice. Our intertwined and diverse society demands we act if we are to flourish as a democracy where justice is truly for all.