• jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev
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    10 months ago

    AYYY long island checking in!

    Yeah tho fr, i’m west indian and there was a lot of veiled racism in school. Didn’t really notice/thought it wasn’t a big deal until i went to college and realized that shit DEF wasn’t normal

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      10 months ago

      Veiled? Must be nice.Haha

      I remembered going to a friend’s house and the dad put his hand at my chest and looked at me dead in the eye and asked. “Are you Vietnamese?”

      “No sir, I’m Taiwanese”.

      “Oh ok, you’re ok to come in. I did some R&R there and you people are all right”

      That situation would have been way worse if I was from Vietnam.

      I lived in Bohemia which is next to Patchogue. It’s a terrible place to live if you’re a minority.