America, since before its founding, has always endured hating "the other." This hatred of "the other" led to Native American genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, Japanese interment during World War II, and a spate of racially and ethnically motivated mass killings over the past five years. These murders, by white males, killed African Americans and Jews worshiping, Latinos shopping at a Walmart, and now Asians working in massage parlors.
The white supremacists who murdered the African Americans worshiping at the Emanuel African Episcopal Church in Charleston and killed the Latinos shopping at the El Paso Walmart echoed racist memes spread by Donald Trump. Obviously, Trump did not create the hatred; he used it for his own political purposes. However, by labeling the coronavirus the "Chinese virus" and calling it the "kung flu" (which he did as recently as March 16 on a Fox News interview), he focused white hatred of "the other" directly on Asians.
Not to minimize the current divide in U.S.-China relations, they were at an all-time low under Trump. His "Kung Flu" campaign was a diversion to distract from his inept handling of the pandemic by shifting blame to China. It is not a coincidence that hate crimes against Asian Americans spiked 149 percent between 2019 and 2020 during Trump's anti-China campaign. Nor should it be a surprise that six out of the eight people massacred at the Atlanta area massage parlors were Asian women. Kamala Harris is our first female vice-president. She is of Asian, and Black, decent. She has been called a jezebel by two right-wing Southern Baptist preachers, and a white man was arrested outside her home with a gun in his car.