Osaka Against The Crime Of Racism Against Asians: Now Common Sense Is Uncommon In This World

Naomi Osaka (Twitter @naomiosaka)

JAKARTA - Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka opens her voice via her Twitter account against crimes of racism against Asian people in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"If people like Asian people as much as they like bubble tea, anime, mochi, sushi, matcha, etc ...", wrote Osaka, Sunday, March 28.

Osaka has a Haitian father and Japanese mother and lived in the United States since she was three years old.

"Imagine taking advantage/enjoying things that come from a culture and then attacking/diminishing the ethnicity that created them", continued her tweet.

If people loved Asian people as much as they love bubble tea, anime, mochi, sushi, matcha etc ... Imagine profiting/enjoying things that come from a culture and then attacking/diminishing the ethnic group that created it.

- NaomiOsaka 大 坂 な お み (@naomiosaka) March 27, 2021

The first cases of COVID-19 infection were reported in Wuhan, central China, at the end of 2019.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said earlier Monday he was "deeply concerned" about the escalating violence against Asians and people of Asian descent since the pandemic began.

The remarks followed the shooting in Atlanta on March 16 by the suspected white male, in which six of the eight murder victims were women of Asian descent.

"It's sad that this even has to become a hashtag/slogan", wrote Osaka on her Instagram referring to #stopasianhate. "It should make sense but it looks like common sense isn't common in this world now".

During last summer's US Open, which Osaka won for the second time, at each round, Osaka wore a mask bearing the names of victims of police brutality in the United States to support Black Lives Matter and the fight against racism.