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Politico: Atlanta massacre sparks a political awakening in the Korean church

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Politico - This month’s killing spree at Atlanta-area spas is pushing Korean American pastors to do something quietly radical: Urge their flocks to get politically involved and rise up against racism against Asian Americans. . .

An invigorated Korean community, pushed to action by Korean churches, could be good news for Democrats, who have been losing ground with the Korean community in recent years, according to early poll data. Although nationally, 57 percent of Korean Americans said they would vote for Biden pre-election, an exit poll conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund found that only 39 percent voted for the current president. While the numbers are still incomplete, it shows that Democrats need better outreach to the community to secure their vote in future elections. . . .

https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2021/03/26/atlanta-massacre-sparks-a-political-awakening-in-the-korean-church-1370020