"Silence and indifference from leadership may actually encourage hate."

I am Chinese and I work in NYC. In January 2020, people started to pay attention to the outbreak in China. My coworker who sit next to me asked me why people eat wild life in China. She then commented, "Why don't you tell your people to go back to China and not come spread the virus?" I later realized that she said the same thing to a Korean coworker. I reported this incident to her manger and human resource and told them that I don't feel safe sharing the same office space with her. Management made "an arrangement" so that she would sit further away from me but still in the same space. I was so disappointed at this institution that claims to promote racial justice but ends up tolerating discriminating behavior like this. Silence and indifference from leadership may actually encourage hate. The system has to change first for individuals to change.