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Black, Asian and Latino communities all faced mass shootings in 2 weeks. How they're showing support.

The nation was still reeling from a deadly shooting blamed on an alleged white supremacist in Buffalo, New York, an anti-Asian shooting in Dallas’ Koreatown

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Black, Asian and Latino communities all faced mass shootings in 2 weeks. How they're showing support.
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Black and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities are showing their solidarity with the Latino population in Uvalde at a time when calls to protect America’s most disadvantaged populations are becoming increasingly urgent. Latino and Hispanic residents make up 72.7 percent of Uvalde County’s population, according to census data.

“I hope that we can use this moment to lean on one another,” said Chas Moore, the founder of the Austin Justice Coalition, a Black-led social justice organization. “The Black community just went through the terrible hate crime that happened in Buffalo. Now the Latino community is going through this. Our communities are mourning.”

Civil rights leaders across communities have been texting and emailing with one another since the Dallas and Buffalo shootings this month, said John C. Yang, the president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

“Even after the Buffalo, Laguna Woods and Dallas shootings, all of our communities had been talking to each other by text, cellphone and email,” he said.
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Bobby Blount, a spokesperson for the San Antonio Area African American Community Fund, said the organization is willing to do all it can to support the Latino community in Uvalde.

“We have to continue the mission to make the world better for our demographics, the Latinx demographics, for Asians and others,” Blount said. “It’s important that we not only support each other on this but on other matters that we’re facing across the board.”

And as gun violence affects three distinct communities, solidarity among them doesn’t take just a single form, said Manju Kulkarni, a co-founder of the civil rights organization Stop AAPI Hate.

“It involves at a minimum acknowledging what is happening to other communities, seeing that the hate against African Americans is both similar to but also different from what our AAPI communities are experiencing,” she said.

Policy solutions can’t be one-sided, she said, and leaders need to put forward legislation that would benefit all communities of color.