Students Speak Out

¨I expected it to come because of COVID[-19], and I expected it to happen. I’m adopted, and my parents didn’t really expect this to happen. On the bus, I was bullied, called a Chinese slave, a c****. [Students] pulled their eyes back, they would say that I’m not loved because I am Asian and adopted, and that I look like a Chinese boy. This was when I was in fourth and fifth grade. In grocery...

“I think people are taking racism to a whole new level. Just killing people and calling people slurs just because of their race is wrong. No, I haven’t had any experience of this.”

“I believe the current rise of the Asian hate crimes is terrible and devastating to witness as an Asian-American myself. When I would see the kind of violence these Asian women and men had to endure during these crimes, it was absolutely upsetting, but I was frustrated. No amount of violence is justified simply for somebody’s race, Asian or not. I have definitely experienced discrimination for...

¨I really dislike all the Asian hate crime in our country because I too am Asian and hate to see my race get hurt and violated throughout our country. I feel like there’s always been a little bit of hate towards Asians throughout time in our country, but I feel like it really went up when the coronavirus happened, and people thought that it was the Asian peoples’ fault.”