Asian American students speak their truth about living with racism
Chalkbeat Editor-In-Chief Nicole Avery Nichols. Courtesy of Nicole Avery Nichols “I need you to be uncomfortable.” — Kayla Park, 17, Washington, D.C. When I was in fourth grade, a classmate and his older brother followed me halfway home from school while calling me the n-word. It wasn’t our first dust-up. But because every time he called me that word I would snap back “Yo Mama!” the boy’s mother joined the battle on this day. She glared at me from the window of her slow-rolling car as her sons threatened me and spat in my direction. A classmate whom I distinctly recall looke...
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