I've become somewhat torn over the rise of all this Asian hate crime nonsense. I'm disappointed seeing other Asians seemingly jump at the opportunity to get in on the oppression Olympics especially with the reality that we actually do quite well in this country, not because of the people pandering to us now but in spite of them. Above all, I hate that they now are using us to push the anti-white rhetoric. I grew up in Kentucky, I rarely ever received any kind of hate or judgement based upon my eyes or my skin color.
Of all the media has done, this has been the hardest on me. I've been made a political football.
The crazy thing most people either don't understand or refuse to acknowledge is the massive amount of diversity within what's being referred to as the "Asian Community".
I've traveled to Beijing on business, dated a South Korean woman for a couple years, was good friends with a restaurant owner who's father was a pilot in the Taiwanese Air Force, worked with a guy with from Japan, my best friend from High School married a Filipino, and I had a neighbor who came to this country as Vietnamese refugee.
Even if you are Maori from New Zealand or a native Hawaiian, you're tossed into the Asian bucket of oppression.
It's politics at it's worst, Pede.
Most Asian Americans were just going about their daily lives and didn't give it much thought until the left determined you were oppressed.
If people treat you differently these days, don't take it personally. The only reason people might give you a second glance is because progressives have forced us to recognize and focus on the fact that we look different.
They create the racism they claim they are against by turning us all on each other. Idc what they say. People are people to me. White people, black people. My family came to America when tensions were high and people did discriminate against Asians. Regardless they came here to prosper, they called America their home and in the grand scheme it has treated us well. The only thing I hate about America are the liberals trying to destroy the it.
It pains me to see what's happened to our country in my nearly 60 years.
The civil rights movement was under way before I knew or cared what was happening, but I was aware enough after such amazing progress was made.
I attended a public school in Tidewater VA where busing laws introduced me to black people on a daily basis - literally overnight. Not that I'd never experienced black people. My 2nd grade teacher was a black woman, but I hadn't spent any time with black kids my age until then.
The biggest difference I remember was not skin color, but culture. These inner-city kids were bused into a pasty-white suburban school. It took a few weeks to adjust, because the teacher didn't simply introduce "the" new student in the classroom, she introduced more than a half dozen on the first day.
We all adjusted well and got along for one reason - the grown-ups back then didn't teach us about our differences. We were taught history that included slavery, but we were also taught how to read, write, and understand mathematics without "the inherent white bigotry of slavery and colonialism" on math, English, and science.
If the politicians and media would just leave us alone, we'd all get along so much better.
Cheers, Mate.