Lawmakers and local advocates called on the North Carolina General Assembly Wednesday to pass bills incorporating AAPI contributions into school curriculums and preventing hate crimes.
North Carolina Asian Americans Together organized the press conference as part of its annual Asian American Advocacy Day.
There are more than 300,000 Asian Americans in North Carolina, according to Carolina Demography. Asian Americans are one of the fastest growing communities in the state and across the south.
Phuong Tran, communications director at NCAAT, said the group celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. It was founded to provide a voice in the state policy arena for the needs of Asian communities.
“Too many people felt invisible, spoken about or to, but not with,” Tran said. “So we set out to change that, and over the past decade, we built a multilingual state infrastructure for civic participation.”
The group worked with lawmakers to introduce House Bill 835, “Learning AAPI Contributions in Schools.” This legislation would ensure the inclusion of the contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the American history curriculum, like their work on the transcontinental railroad and Civil Rights Movement.
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There’s been traction at the local level, Rep. Ya Liu (D-Wake) said.
“In one of the high schools in my district, Green Hope High School, the history teacher started to teach a course on AAPI history, which is so popular that it will be one of the elective courses in Wake County,” Liu said. “We’ll continue to push it at the state level.”
The bill was introduced in the House last April, but was assigned to the Rules committee, where bills filed by Democrats are often left to languish.
Lawmakers have also pushed legislation against hate crimes.
Senate Bill 827, “Hate Crimes Prevention Act,” would establish a statewide database to track statistics on hate crimes, train law enforcement officers to identify and respond to them, and increase the punishment for them.
Sen. Jay Chaudhuri (D-Wake), a primary sponsor of the bill, said he filed the measure because the current system isn’t working.
“We lack a comprehensive statewide database tracking hate crimes, which means that we cannot fully see what is happening in our communities,” he said. “Our law enforcement officers often lack the training to identify, respond to and report these crimes. Our prosecutors need better tools to bring these cases to justice, which means too many perpetrators walk away without accountability.”
The bill has been assigned to the Senate Committee on Appropriations/Base Budget.
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