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A THREAD!! HOW I FEEL WHEN I AM THREATENED TO BE REPORTED TO THE POLICE AND TOLD TO GO BACK TO CHINA FOR QUIETLY READING IN A PARK. Full video of the harassment on my IG 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDG0gk3JyQN/?igshid=xwrqyltt61uq
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDG0gk3JyQN/?igshid=xwrqyltt61uq
Yesterday I was in the park. A white woman came up to me to say I was on private property + that she would call the police. ”Aren’t you doing the same?” I asked. “I’m a teacher” she said. “There are signs that say No Trespassing. Maybe you don’t speak English? Go back to China.”
“Wow, thank you for that racist remark,” I said. “Fuck off, you bitch!” she said. She said a bunch of other things that are a blur to me now and I said, “CALL THE POLICE ON ME THEN!” She walked off.
I sat there not knowing what to do with myself. Should I leave? What if she does call the police? But I’m not doing anything wrong! And I don’t want her to know that she scared me!
AND THEN SHE CAME BACK PROWLING! Listen closely and you can hear her saying “All Chinese people should go to jail!”
At that point, I just popped off. I couldn’t believe how hateful that comment was! If she is a teacher then can you imagine that a woman like this is teaching children? People like this should NOT be teaching. PEOPLE LIKE THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE POWER.
I have so many things I want to say but this is most important: I am privileged to be an Asian woman. If this happened to a Black person and this woman called the police and they came, this could have ended in straight up murder.
This is literally the story of so many Black men and women who have been murdered. And for doing far less than I was. Breonna Taylor was asleep in her own home. Ahmaud Arbery was jogging. Stephon Clark was standing in his grandma’s backyard. I could go on...
These people weren’t doing anything wrong and they certainly didn’t have the luxury to speak back to the racism the way I did to this woman. Doing so would be a sure death sentence.
The fury I feel in my body is palpable. I have never experienced anything like this in my life. I can’t imagine what it’s like to live with this every single day. I cannot imagine the kind of violence this does to one’s body. No physical weapons were drawn but this was violence.
