'I've been completely disenchanted.' Billionaire speaks out after attacks on Asian Americans
"This unconscious bias and racism is pervasive. It's almost inherent, sadly, in the historic fabric of this country," Soon-Shiong, the founder and executive chairman of biotech company
ImmunityBio, told CNN Business in his first public comments about the surge of anti-Asian hostilities. "We have to recognize that, accept it and then break it."
Soon-Shiong, who is of
Chinese descent and was born in South Africa, expressed dismay at the
recent spike in hate crimes
against Asian Americans as well as the
racial tensions that fueled the Black Lives Matter movement.