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Following the killing of eight people, including six Asian women, at massage parlors in the Atlanta area, former UNC basketball player Kane Ma took to social media to share his own account of a racially-motivated attack against him. “Due to the horrific acts we witnessed in Atlanta this week and the increase in Asian hate crimes, I feel that I can no longer be silent,” Ma wrote in a LinkedIn post on Saturday. Ma said he was visiting Chapel Hill in 2019 when he was jumped by three men. The attack left him "lying in a hospital bed, diagnosed with a large skull fracture." "When I reported the incident to the police, it was dismissed as a ‘my word vs. theirs’ situation," Ma wrote. "Two months later, in a local bar, I was approached by the same attackers, and told by one, 'White people have power'" Ma said he recalled the words “You gonna try some kung-fu on us?” as the men approached. He added that despite his love for Chapel Hill, these “acts of hate” left a lasting impact on him phys...

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