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Text abuse

Yesterday, while I sent out text messages to our community members in regards to voters receiving improper purge notices, I got a truly racist text back with "ching chong ...... and F@%k off." It is fine that they want to opt out of text message program but to have blatantly racist comment and text, this is unacceptable. #ThisIs2017

Outside of a church in Minnesota

Me and my fiancé were sitting in our car when an older white man got into his car parked behind us. He noticed our Planned Parenthood bumper sticker. He started looking around our car. I got out to ask him if there was a problem and he started harassing me and asking me "Do you like to kill babies?" I got back in my car and locked the doors. He pulled up next to us and told me to roll the windows down, and when I did he said "You're not from here are you?" He told me I should leave the town and go back to where I came from.

Unwelcome in Colorado

My husband and daughter were followed home, after returning from her piano lessons. The man got out and was approaching the side of the car our daughter was on, so my husband got out and asked him what he wanted.

He said, ""You don't live here, this isn't your neighborhood, you don't belong here, why are you driving around in your sketchy Audi, what are you doing here."" He also said he lives in our neighborhood and told him his name.

My husband told him, "I live here" and didn't want to open our garage door but the guy wouldn't leave and started filming my husband, so my husband sent our daughter inside and the guy left.

At this point he knows where we live. He was a white male. My husband is Asian. Somehow my husband had the ability to remember his license plate.

We called the police dept., they came and took our statement, traced the plates and went to his house. They confirmed that the guy lives in our the neighborhood. The guy basically said that this is his neighborhood and he is going to do what he wants. The officer said the guy thinks he's ""entitled"" to do what he wants. They think he had been drinking and my husband thought that as well. The police told him that if he does that again, he will be going to jail.

There was no road rage, there was no previous altercation, there was no excuse for what he did. This was racism. I post this because I want people to know that this is happening. I want him to be held accountable for trying to intimidate my family at our house and that now I have to tell our children not to walk alone and to be extra cautious because one of our neighbors doesn't think we "belong here."

Remarks in Chinatown

Incident occurred in November 2016: 

While walking through the streets of New York City, I was called "chink" and told to go back to China. The men shoved me out of the way, with no apologies, laughed, and belittled me for my skin, my nonexistent accent, and my culture. I was born and raised in Manhattan.

Man kicked off flight to Houston after racist comments

Incident reported on February 22: 

A man was removed from a United Airlines flight bound for Houston after making multiple racist comments to a couple in front of him.

According to KHOU, passengers were boarding a flight in Chicago when an unidentified man asked a Pakistani-Indian couple, "That's not a bomb in your bag, is it?"

Full News Story: http://www.sfgate.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Man-kicked-off-flight-to-Houston-That-s-not-a-10950635.php

TA Assault at UT-Austin

I am an international student and a TA at the University of Texas at Austin. While I was presenting during the class, one of my students said, "GO BACK TO CHINA. GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY." I feel that this is so rude. I am even not from China.

On the street where you live

It was about 10:30 am in Forest Hills, New York. I was walking to the train and realized I forgot something at home. As I was reaching the corner, I passed a man who was walking to cross the street perpendicular to where I was headed. I walked in front of him, but passed by about 3-4 feet. He started yelling at me to learn my manners and say "Excuse me" or I should go back to Beijing. I didn't respond and he started yelling "You stupid chink, I'm telling you to go back to Beijing."

It was the first time in my adult life I had ever faced prejudice, but it is even more soul crushing when it happens on the street you live on. I kept my head down and walked past my house because I didn't want the guy to know where I lived.

"It's why we have Trump"

My three friends and I were three minutes away from our airbnb (we had braved a storm to get there) when the host cancelled on me, pointing out that I was Asian and "wanting something for nothing", saying "it's why we have trump", that she will "not be ordered by foreigners" and that I was acting like I was at a "BOGO buffet" for verifying what we had previously discussed: that I could bring two guests (she had said yes before, just needed to pay 50 per person per night) and my two tiny two-pound puppies (the ad said dogs considered case-by-case).

She was very disrespectful and I cried. Fortunately, there was a news crew (KTLA 5) covering the storm next to us where we parked, and the anchor interviewed me about the airbnb incident. Airbnb issued me a full refund and agreed to reimburse us for different accommodation. I have screencaps of the conversation.

[A link to the incident: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Southern-California-Airbnb-cancellation-racial-dispute-418466753.html ] 

Bar Chatter

 

While at a bar with husband and a friend, we had a conversation with a fellow bargoer. The conversation (littered with microaggressions) turned political, to which this person asked us our nationality. We all replied that we were American, although our friend said he was Chinese (probably referring to his ethnicity, not his nationality), so the guy stated that he assumed our friend's allegiance was to China, which made no sense, so we informed him otherwise. The conversation escalated, and essentially we were told several things: 1. "Welcome to America! Welcome to MY country!" (despite being in the city that I was born in, and all of us born in the US) 2. "Learn to assimilate!"

"F**king China B*tch"

A middle-aged man followed me for two blocks, calling me a "f**king China B*tch." It was dark, and we were alone on the street. When I turned around to look at him, he spat at my feet. Eventually, I went into a grocery store to get away.

Racist Graffiti in Oakdale

Incident reported February 13: 

The search is on for the person or people who spray-painted a racial slur on the home of a Hmong family in Oakdale.

On Sunday morning they discovered their garage door covered in large letters that spell out a derogatory term for Asians. Their minivan was vandalized too.

Full news story: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/02/13/oakdale-racial-slur-on-garage/

Remarks in NJ Walmart

I was walking behind an older (mid-60s) white couple who was walking quite slowly and taking up the whole aisle when they stopped and moved to the side. As I passed them, the woman said in a loud obnoxious voice, "she could at least have said thank you!"

I stopped and turned around (which caught them by surprise) and said, "I didn't ask you for anything!" The man then told me to "go back to Japan" to which I angrily shouted "I'm from here, you idiot!"

Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a national affiliation of five leading organizations advocating for the civil and human rights of Asian Americans and other underserved communities to promote a fair and equitable society for all. The affiliation's members are: Advancing Justice - AAJC (Washington, D.C.), Advancing Justice - Los Angeles, Advancing Justice - Atlanta, Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus (San Francisco), and Advancing Justice - Chicago.