'The second they saw my face, their eyes widened and they went, 'NO! NO, NO, NO!''
"I'm not Asian, but my best friend is. We were supposed to go to DC with our select choir, and he saidWe didn't even end up going, but just to hear him say he was scared was terrifying for me, as he is the one I go to when I'm scared."got spit on at the store and told to go back to China and 'spread her disease' there.
My mom answered, 'Sorry, I'm Korean.' The man then said, 'Well, they're pretty close right? So don't you know what's going on?' I just laughed it off. I didn't realize it was a little taste of the the racism the Asian community would be facing in the coming months.""I go into a clinic twice a week to have labs drawn because I am a post-transplant patient. When I go in, the heads swivel and the tension in the waiting room is through the roof. Most of the clinic patients are older and Caucasian. They tend to look at me like I’m the grim reaper.
Now, I’ve always dealt with people being shitty by making it a joke or being sarcastic. So my first instinct was to sneeze and just see the reactions I would get. Or say something like, 'I’m immunosuppressed so you’re more likely to kill me than I am to kill you.'
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