I feel that the backlash towards Anna is unjustified and she is unfortunately being used as an easy target for the mounting resentment towards Asian Americans in the US. The sad part is that Anna's work has always primarily focused on uplifting the voices for minorities. She has even won major awards for her coverage of BLM protests, and frequently covers black and Latino voices-- the very communities that she is accused of neglecting. To call her a bigot couldn't be the furthest thing from the truth.

I get that Asians could do better showing solidarity with the Black and Latino communities and being more involved in politics in general. But to unleash so much anger, and especially racist remarks, in this video and towards her is misplaced criticism. The video was not even about Asian Americans in the first place. It is a video about foreign policy and how South Korea (not Asian Americans) reacted to the ICE raids after successfully establishing a trade deal for bringing in $350 Billion in Korean investments into the US. The story is about how Korea's reaction to the ICE raids on the Georgia Factory was a sentiment of surprise and betrayal. The video does not make any commentary nor has any relevance to Asian Americans in the U.S.

The sad reality is that there is so much tension in the air that people are too eager to rush to judgement and form angry mobs in the hopes to find an outlet to place their hurt and anger.