Sunday, December 6, 2009

Many Asian students fear return to S. Phila. classes | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/05/2009


Many Asian students fear return to S. Phila. classes Philadelphia Inquirer 12/05/2009:

"Chaofei Zheng hiked up his shirt to reveal an angry bruise, about four inches long, on his right side. He pointed to a matching yellow-and-purple mark above his left eyebrow.
'I'm scared to go to school,' Zheng, 19, a freshman at South Philadelphia High School, said through a translator yesterday.

Zheng is one of several - community organizers say 30 or more - students who were attacked at the school on Thursday, targeted, they said, because they're Asian.

Racial violence at the school is not new, but students and activists say this week's attacks are emblematic of a problem that's not going away."