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As we were nearing the end of a Anti-Black racism rally, a white teenage boy rolled down his passenger seat car window and yelled, "This is not Chicago! If you don't like our country, go back to where you came from! Get out! Go back to where you came from!".
My spouse and I (both of Asian descent) were the only two people on that side of the street at the time since folks attending were practice social distancing.
The tax accountant I was working with at the time sent out a blanket email in late March to all his clients saying he was advising doing tele-conferences rather than meetings in person due to the “Chinese Virus Epidemic”. At best, this is unprofessional and insensitive, and at worst, it’s in-your-face racism (to use his business as a platform from which to project his racial biases). He later sent out a second similar blanket email where he referred to the "Wuhan Virus". This behavior encourages racist people to openly express their racism towards Asian-Americans, as it serves no other purpose.
I work at a pizzeria. A customer refused to come up her food because I was working. The customer asked if there is an Asian girl working at the counter and refused to come. She then said that she will come the next time the girl isn’t working.
My roommates and I were helping our protesters in peace. I am an Asian woman and my roommates are Caucasian and Multiracial. Out of nowhere, an older white male driving a truck stopped in front of us and started harassing the protesters. He started using some harsh and negative words and got into a confrontation with one of the protesters. They were arguing for a good minute and then the guy in the truck threw a bag of trash at the protester and drove away. And to be honest, there were multiple incidents where I was personally attacked by older white women in line to the grocery store. It will not go unnoticed. It will stop.
I was hiking with my girlfriend and her roommates in a regional park. At the beginning of our hike, a woman walking the opposite direction to us approached our group and punched both my girlfriend and I in the face and said, "f** you coronavirus." Our group did not escalate the matter further, and the woman walked away from us without a single look back.
There was a sign placed outside of a local business advertising a sale on their ice cream, calling it the "China Virus Special". The owner was contacted and he refused to change or remove the sign, but as more residents expressed their anger in person and online and threatened to boycott, the sign was removed after 3-4 days.
I saw a large sign on someone's front lawn that read, "Make China Pay Reparation" and a smaller sign near it that read, "Sorry America is closed. Owner gone nuts!” As of May 24, 2020, the sign is still up.
A multiracial group of people were social distancing outside the fence of the home of an East Asian family. One of the parents was celebrating a birthday and the family was gathered in their backyard while friends were arrayed along the fence. A middle-aged masculine person was biking down the sidewalk toward the house and I noticed that they were yelling something at the family/our group. At first I thought it was birthday greetings from a neighbor but as the person biked closer I realized they were shouting Asian-sounding gibberish (i.e. "ching chong" noises) at us. I shouted after them but they were already biking away.
At the post office, a Caucasian female of older age yelled out racial slurs against the Chinese at me.
A man put a bike tire with "Made in China" and a Corona beer bottle in front of my neighbor's house. My neighbor is Chinese American and we suspect this was a racially-motivated act relating to COVID-19.
While I was grocery shopping, a white woman fake coughed both times I passed by her while staring at me.
My friend and his girlfriend were in a parking lot in San Jose and an older woman in a Ford Fusion stopped to yell racial slurs at them. They ignored her which apparently pissed her off. They are ok, but I'm really mad about it. We should not be afraid. We should be angry. Really, really angry.
My next door neighbor says in my surveillance camera, "You are dead!" I reported this to the Police Department. After the police are gone, he continues with racial slurs. Now he says, "Chinese disease. I live next to a Chinaman. Oh my God. It is a Chinese disease. That's what President Trump says." I am very upset that I have to deal with this ignorance and bigotry in my backyard.
I was driving on the highway (right lane) when a truck with two white guys got in the left lane to get past me. However, they slowed to idle my same speed. I saw this out of my peripheral view, so I began to slow so they could pass. However, they slowed too. Then I sped up, and they sped up too. I looked over and the passenger was just staring at me with a “go to hell” glare.
I was wearing a mask, so I guess I expected some anti-Asian mask wearing sentiment as I get back out from the lockdown. The driver then pulled in front of me in my lane and slammed their brakes. By this time I expected this, so I was able to avoid a collision, but was not too far from hitting their truck. I was grabbing for my phone to try to start to record, but then they sped away. I thought after, what would have happened if we had a collision. Potentially verbal assault and who knows if it could have gotten physical. I’m a 6’1” 235 lb half Korean, half white male with plenty of power to defend myself, unless god knows if they’d of taken it to an extreme with firepower (hypothetical).
The point is, in today’s climate you just don’t know what’s going to happen, that’s the scary part. Being harassed on the highway for being an Asian wearing a mask. Be careful out there and watch your surroundings.
After a few days of coronavirus outbreak, [a woman] yelled out racist remarks while holding hands with her toddler son in the parking lot. Yesterday, her husband was with his daughter. The daughter who yelled out Anti-Asian sentiments was with her dad. Today, the whole family joined together to threatened the Asian person to not call the police and provoke the Asian person to talk out of her own free will so they can do more damages. They won't stop even after the police came. The family won't take anything that they did seriously and no consequences followed. They are righteous when they are wrong. I hope they will be arrested. They have a very bad attitude that they are righteous with when they are racist.