This week, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts released an internal email to the organization to speak out against the rising cases of racism and violence towards Asian Americans. Roberts, whose father is Black and mother is Japanese, felt it was necessary to speak out.
While racism towards the Asian American community is not new, it has seen a stark rise in the wake of the pandemic. Los Angeles has an incredibly dense Asian population “with 11.3% of the population identifying as Asian, according to the 2010 census” (according to Joon Lee’s ESPN article on Roberts’ statement).