Olivia Munn speaks out after racist Zoom bombing disrupts an AAPI meeting

Munn, the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum and Asian-American beauty brand Cocokind had gathered to discuss efforts to end discrimination against the AAPI community. They wrote about the incident on their respective Instagram accounts.

“We were communicating to celebrate, uplift and protect the AAPI community and we were subjected to a hate crime in real time,” Munn wrote Monday. “It was a cowardly and unscrupulous act.”

Monday’s incident will be reported to the FBI, Cocokind and the NAPAWF wrote on Instagram.

“Although it disrupted our conversation, we later resumed it because these evil acts will not stop the conversation,” both Cocokind and the NAPWF wrote. “We started our event with beautifully upbeat and empowered members of the AAPI community speaking about our experiences and using our voices, and we will continue.”

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, racist attacks against Asian American and Pacific islanders have steadily increased. More than 10,000 hate incidents against AAPI people were reported from March 19, 2020 to September 2021, according to a report by Stop AAPI Hate.

This month, 40-year-old Michelle Go was pushed to death in front of a subway train in Times Square. While the incident has not yet been labeled a hate crime, many proponents say the incident is still inextricably linked to the trend of the past two years.

“You can tell me anything you want, this has nothing to do with me being Asian, but when I look at photos of Michelle Go and read the story, I see myself in it,” said Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive director of the NAPAWF, earlier this to DailyExpertNews. month.