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Incident occurred January 16:
I, a white woman, was walking to the neighborhood grocery store with my five-year-old Chinese American son, who was riding his scooter. A small dog ran up to my son, who told it to "go away." The dog's owner told me to "teach him some manners" and then turned to my son and yelled at him to "go back to where you came from!"
Incident occurred in November 2016:
I was driving out of a Whole Foods parking garage and as I was waiting for the gate to open, my payment got stuck in the machine. While this was happening, a man behind me started to scream at me, "F*ing Chinese bitch. Hurry the f**k up." In my 20 years of living in this country, I have never been verbally assaulted with racial slurs.
This incident occurred on January 24:
While I was driving, I was cut off by two ladies in a Chevy. I honked at the car because they almost hit me. The driver rolled down her car window and started yelling at me and my kids, telling us to "go back to your country" and that her president will deport us. She said that we have no business being in "their" land and that people "like us" need to leave the country. I am a citizen of the USA and I pay my taxes. This is plain ignorance and road rage.
Incident occurred in October 2016:
I was walking to the YMCA when a group of high school boys muttered "ching, ching, ching" under their breath, but just loud enough for me to hear. They were giggling. At this particular Y, there are a lot of Chinese speaking members, many of whom don't speak English. I guess these boys assumed I didn't speak English and wouldn't catch on to their blatant racism.
This incident occurred August 2016:
I was at a drive-thru with my four-year-old and 6-month old. While I was digging in my wallet for some coins, I guess I was slow to drive up to the window. The man in the car behind me yelled for me to get off the f**ing phone. I very politely responded that I wasn't on the phone. Then he just lost it. He told me to go back to China...
Read MoreSomeone just poured milkshake on my car and took off while I was waiting for the light to turn. I didn't do anything abnormal. I was just listening to my Japanese song and singing while I was in traffic.
My sister and my parents were walking on a trail in San Mateo County, California with our two service dogs Boba and Daisy. It was a popular trail on Christmas Day and the one and only ranger we saw on the trail greeted us and wished us Merry Christmas after we quickly notified him that our dogs were service dogs. The trail passed by a bench and as I got closer to the bench where two older white males were sitting and I could see were now staring at us.
As we get closer, one of the guys start yelling very loudly "Do you know how to read English? There are NO pets allowed." I respond politely "Yes- they are service dogs." He then yells back: "It doesn't matter if they're service animals, there are no pets allowed here and YOU don't look like you need any service." I yelled back "Mind your own business" and continued walking the trail fuming inside.
An Asian-American woman reported on November 23 that:
I was walking down Valencia in San Francisco around 7pm and this older White gentleman pretended to hit my head with the book in his hand. As he walked by- he yelled really loudly- "I hate your fucking race. We're in charge of this country now." He was not intoxicated.
Early after Trump was elected, a tall bald white Man approached me, a Chinese American Male, and got within 4" in my face yelling, "WE WON! WE WON!" and "Get the f**k out now, we own this country, ch*nk". I got on my bike and started to ride away and he proceeded to get in his white van and menacingly followed me. When we came to a light, he bumped my tire, causing me to be knocked off my bike and he yelled "Asians Gonna Die!" I'm Chinese but very much look, speak, and dress like your typical Californian. Lake Merritt is also a more gentrified area of Oakland and predominantly Asian, White, and Indian.
My roommate said the racial slur "ch*nk."
I was walking out of the store when a Caucasian woman sneered "Dirty Chinese [N-word]!", gave me a hateful look, and walked away.
I was walking back to work on my lunch hour and crossing a busy Fenway intersection when this incident occurred. I could see that the walk sign was illuminated and I and many other pedestrians made our way across the street along the crosswalk. Although the walk sign was lit, a middle aged, Caucasian man in his car was aggressively inching and trying to turn left through the pedestrians and the crosswalk. As his window was open, I said and motioned to him that this was the crosswalk, as if to say pedestrians have the right of way when crossing. He did not take kindly to this, and yelled that I should "Go back to China!" and drove off.