Chinatowns and other working class communities of color in urban areas are being ravaged by gentrification, displacement, policing. The people causing this violence don't wear hoodies; they wear suits, they have galleries, they won elections.
Here is Los Angeles Chinatown, seniors have to walk an hour or take a half hour bus ride to get to the closest walk-in covid vaccine site.
Why can't they go to Dodger Stadium, which is literally around the corner? Because Dodger Stadium is drive through only.
Here in Los Angeles Chinatown, hired goons of the privately-run publicly-sanctioned Business Improvement District routinely physically harass "undesirables" and are on texting terms with the local LAPD cops, who they share laughing emojis over the suffering of houseless folks.
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