CNN This Is Life With Lisa Ling October 24, 2021 05:03:00
Ours was one of the few asian families in the neighborhood and i was teased all the time. kids would come up to me and go, oh, lisa ring. when you are a little kid, you just don't want to stand out. you just don't want to be different. so when i was teased, i never told anyone about it, i never complained, i just repressed it. i had so much shame about being asian, and then i must have been 10 or 11 years old when my dad was reading the newspaper and there was a story about a young man in detroit who was brutally murdered because of his race. it just exacerbated that feeling of un-belonging fo...