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I’m a Filipina American and racism makes me afraid for me, for my family

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I could be the next victim of anti-Asian hate. I am a Filipina American living in Chicago. Following one of the latest violent attacks against Asian Americans — a 65-year-old Filipina beaten by a stranger as she walked to church in Manhattan — I thought about my mother and aunties. I have so much anger, so much rage at the realization that any of us might be the next victims. The New York attack is just one of the many that have happened across this country over the past year. My community is fa…