{"id":56696,"date":"2023-02-25T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56696"},"modified":"2023-02-25T13:58:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:58:47","slug":"stand-with-asian-americans-rep-goodens-comments-create-serious-threat-to-our-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56696","title":{"rendered":"Stand with Asian Americans: Rep. Gooden\u2019s Comments Create Serious Threat to Our Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Feb. 25, 2023 (February 25, 2023)\u00a0<\/strong> \u2014 In an appearance on Fox News this week, Rep. Lance Gooden (TX-05) questioned Rep. Judy Chu\u2019s loyalty to the United States and trustworthiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The following statement is attributable to Justin Zhu, co-founder of Stand with Asian Americans:<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cRep. Gooden is creating a very real, very serious threat to Asian Americans. It has barely been three years since politicians began casting suspicion on Asian Americans for the pandemic, which led to a horrifying rise in attacks on our community. Words \u2014 especially the words of elected leaders \u2014 can and do lead to anti-Asian hate. With his comments casting suspicion on Rep. Chu because she\u2019s Asian American of Chinese descent, Rep. Gooden is callously putting Asian American lives at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cRep. Gooden\u2019s comments come in the context of a frightening new Texas bill (SB 147) that would ban people holding citizenship from China, Iran, North Korea or Russia from buying property. Our community is rightfully afraid. If our leaders care about the safety of Asian Americans, they must not only denounce Rep. Gooden\u2019s comments, but put a stop to anti-Asian hate in politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stand with Asian Americans is the largest coalition of Asian American entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders and activists that are united in our mission to drive justice and equity for all. Anyone can get involved to use their ingenuity and talent to galvanize the next generation of Asian American activism. Please visit<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/standwithasianamericans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/standwithasianamericans.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1677448134809000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1g6eSVWC3tp-H3HwOmfF_f\"> https:\/\/<wbr \/>standwithasianamericans.com\/<\/a> to learn more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 25, 2023 (February 25, 2023)\u00a0&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56698,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56696\/revisions\/56698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}