As the NBA announces its plans to investigate allegations made Thursday by G-league player and NBA veteran Jeremy Lin that he was called an anti-Asian slur “on the court,” Lin has not publicly named the player or the game where the alleged incident happened. Lin used his Facebook page, which has 3.5 million followers, to post a long statement on anti-Asian racism in America. In his post, Lin spoke for all Asian-Americans, saying, “We are tired of Asian American kids growing up and being asked where they’re REALLY from, of having our eyes mocked, of being objectified as exotic or being told we’re inherently unattractive.” Taiwanese-American Lin, who is a forward for the Santa Cruz Warriors, also referred to alleged Asian bias in sports in his post, saying, “I want better for the next generation of Asian American athletes than to have to work so hard to just be ‘deceptively athletic,'” and added, “Being a 9 year NBA veteran doesn’t protect me from being called ‘coronavirus’ on the court.” Lin has a history of speaking on Asian-American bias. He was featured on NBC Sports’ “Race in America: A Candid Conversation” last week to speak on Asian bias in the U.S., and considers himself a role model for the Asian-American community. NBA sources told the Athletic on Friday the “G League is opening an investigation into guard Jeremy Lin’s statements that he has been called, ‘Coronavirus,’ on the G League court”: The NBA G League is opening an investigation into guard Jeremy Lin’s statements that he has been called, “Coronavirus,” on the G League court, source tells @TheAthletic @Stadium . Lin is playing for Golden State’s affiliate, Santa Cruz. — Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 27, 2021 Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr supported Lin’s statement, saying, “I applaud Jeremy for his words and echo his sentiments regarding racism against the Asian American community.” Kerr has echoed sentiments from left-leaning agendas before and ...
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Owner Sought After Large Tortoise Found Crossing Santa Anita Avenue In Arcadia
ARCADIA (CBSLA) — A really big tortoise was found crossing a busy thoroughfare in Arcadia, and now its finders are hoping to get him home. The tortoise, estimated to be between 50 and 65 pounds, was found crossing Santa Anita Avenue in Arcadia Sunday. READ MORE: LA City Vaccine Sites Set To Reopen Tuesday, With Mostly Second-Dose Appointments Jeff Camacho says his family had to wrestle the big guy into the back of their car to keep it out of the road. READ MORE: 'Magic School Buses': LAUSD Purchases 10 More All-Electric Buses To Bring Students Back When Campuses Reopen “He didn’t appreciate his apprehension but I think he will be happy once he’s back in his yard,” Camacho wrote in a Facebook post. MORE NEWS: Teachers, Food Workers Now Eligible To Get Vaccinated In LA County The family says they are actively trying to find the tortoise’s owner so it can go home. ...
Supreme Court faces landmark challenge on voting rights
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday over a set of Arizona voting restrictions alleged to be racially discriminatory in a dispute that could set the most important voting rights precedent in nearly a decade. A potentially landmark ruling in coming months may determine whether a suite of voting curbs working their way through GOP state legislatures across the country will survive legal scrutiny before the pivotal 2022 midterms and the next race for the White House. For the 6-3 conservative majority court, the case marks a first chance to define the sweep of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). That provision, Section 2, makes it illegal to enact laws that place an unequal burden on the franchise of racial minorities. ADVERTISEMENT Civil rights groups say it’s crucial that the justices use the Arizona case to give a robust reading to Section 2 in light of a past Supreme Court ruling that narrowed safeguards for minority voters. “It is imperative that this Court continue to construe Section 2 expansively, as Congress intended,” the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense Fund wrote in an amicus brief. Such a ruling, the group said, is the only way to fulfill the law’s “original purpose of ridding the political process of racial discrimination.” Tuesday’s arguments will see the justices revisit the scope of voting protections after the court’s highly controversial decision 8 years ago in Shelby County v. Holder. There, a 5-4 court voted to invalidate a section of the VRA that forced former Jim Crow states and other locations with a discriminatory past to get federal approval before changing their voting rules. In striking down the preclearance requirement, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority in 2013, said that the VRA could continue to guard against racist voting laws after the fact — through Section 2, the provision at issue in Tuesday’s case. The Arizona dispute now ...
Poll shows most GOP voters back Trump 2024 bid
A narrow majority of Republican voters say they would support former President Trump Donald Trump Sacha Baron Cohen calls out 'danger of lies, hate and conspiracies' in Golden Globes speech Sorkin uses Abbie Hoffman quote to condemn Capitol violence: Democracy is 'something you do' Ex-Trump aide Pierson planning run for Congress MORE for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill. The poll shows 52 percent of GOP voters back Trump, who has floated a potential comeback in 2024 after losing to President Biden Joe Biden Biden offers support to union organizing efforts Senate Democrats nix 'Plan B' on minimum wage hike Kavanaugh dismays conservatives by dodging pro-Trump election lawsuits MORE in November. That makes him far and away the favorite for his party’s presidential nod; former Vice President Mike Pence Michael (Mike) Richard Pence CPAC, all-in for Trump, is not what it used to be Democrats don't trust GOP on 1/6 commission: 'These people are dangerous' The Memo: CPAC fires starting gun on 2024 MORE placed second with 18 percent support, while former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley Nikki Haley The Memo: CPAC fires starting gun on 2024 The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by The AIDS Institute - Ahead: One-shot vax, easing restrictions, fiscal help Haley isolated after Trump fallout MORE came in third with only 7 percent support. ADVERTISEMENT If Trump ultimately decides against another presidential bid, however, it’s Pence who picks up the most support, according to the poll. Forty-one percent of GOP voters surveyed said they prefer Pence for the nomination if Trump isn’t on the ballot. Sen. Ted Cruz Rafael (Ted) Edward Cruz Five takeaways from CPAC 2021 Trump wins CPAC straw poll with 55 percent 'SNL' envisions Fauci as game show host, giving winners ...
Families Of Loved Ones Lost To COVID-19 Push For National Day Of Mourning
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A grassroots effort is growing to establish a national day of mourning for the victims of COVID-19. More than 100 events are taking place across the country Monday to honor the more than 514,000 Americans who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Hugh Freyer, an 86-year-old Korean War veteran and retired banker, was among them. READ MORE: OC Officials Believe They Could Reach All Metrics This Week To Move Towards Less Restrictive Red Tier Freyer’s death last July still weighs heavily on his daughter, Carolyn Freyer-Jones, and his granddaughter, 13-year-old Lucinda Jones. He left behind the wife he had been married to for 60 years and seven grandchildren. “There was so little conversation about the loss. So little acknowledgement of the loss,” Freyer-Jones said. So she went on to found the Friday Minute – 60 seconds at the end of the week to honor her father and the more than half-million who have died of COVID-19. “People do better when things are acknowledged and people are seen,” she said. The Friday Minute is one of many movements that are seeking to remember loved ones lost to the virus. Thousands of felt roses are also being collected to represent every life lost for the Rose River Memorial, art installations that are being set up in Santa Monica, Orange County and other sites across the country. The roses will connect the grief flowing across the nation into a beautiful rose river. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rose River Memorial (@roserivermemorial) READ MORE: For 2nd Straight Year, San Diego Comic-Con Will Be Virtual View this post on Instagram A post shared by Marcos Lutyens (@marcoslutyens) Lucinda is creating a felt rose for her grandfather, whom she misses keenly and speaks of fondly. “We’d go to the movies whenever we went out, or I went to ...
