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<br />A RESOLUTION OF THE SANTA ANA CITY COUNCIL CONDEMNING RACISM,
<br />XENOPHOBIA, AND HATE AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANS
<br />WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and
<br />advancing social justice for people of all races, ethnicities, and national origins; and
<br />WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana is home to an estimated 332,318 residents, of which
<br />12.1 percent —or approximately 40,210 residents —are of Asian or Pacific Islander descent; and
<br />WHEREAS, the first Asians arrived in what is now the continental United States in the
<br />1500s but are still perceived as "perpetual foreigners'; and
<br />WHEREAS, no city, including the City of Santa Ana, has escaped the history of hateful
<br />actions against Asians; and
<br />WHEREAS, Orange County's first Chinatown, located in the heart of Santa Ana, was
<br />burned to the ground due to racist and xenophobic falsehoods spread about its Asian residents;
<br />and
<br />WHEREAS, the United States has a long history of anti -Asian violence and discrimination,
<br />including the Page Act of 1875 which prohibited Chinese women from entering the United States,
<br />the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which prohibited any Chinese laborer from immigrating to the
<br />United States, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as authorized by
<br />former President Franklin D. Roosevelt through Executive Order 9066 in 1942, and murders of
<br />Asian Americans such a$ Vincent Chin, and
<br />WHEREAS, since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, racist and
<br />xenophobic rhetoric such as "kung flu" and "China virus" was proliferated by former President
<br />Trump, which contributed to an unprecedented and alarming rise in reported hate crimes against
<br />individuals, communities, and businesses perceived to be Asian throughout the United States;
<br />and
<br />WHEREAS, from March 19, 2020 through February 28, 2021, Stop AAPI Hate, a national
<br />coalition aimed at addressing anti -Asian discrimination amid the COVID-19 pandemic, received
<br />reports of over 3,795 hate incidents in the United States against those believed to be Asian; and
<br />WHEREAS, throughout American history, Asian women have been fetishi7ed, sexualized,
<br />and objectified; and
<br />WHEREAS, on March 16, 2021, a white man targeted three Asian American -owned
<br />businesses in Georgia and murdered eight people, six of whom were Asian women who he
<br />fetishized, sexualized, and objectified in order to eliminate his "temptations'; and
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