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The irony of it all

This incident occurred in June of 2016 in Pasadena, California.

My landlord stood in my driveway discussing how much he hated all things Chinese at the top of his voice in a neighborhood where at least half my neighbors are Chinese, and honestly it was embarrassing for me because I was raised in an Asian family even thought I am Caucasian... His rhetoric has occurred on a bimonthly basis from 2016 until I stopped talking to him last year 2020. Since he was our landlord we tried to be social, and invited him over for holiday party in 2017, which he brought his sister over and even his sister said the same thing to us about despising the Chinese people. Yet just the other day he hired a Chinese home appraiser to come to look at his property - the irony is there.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a national affiliation of five leading organizations advocating for the civil and human rights of Asian Americans and other underserved communities to promote a fair and equitable society for all. The affiliation's members are: Advancing Justice - AAJC (Washington, D.C.), Advancing Justice - Los Angeles, Advancing Justice - Atlanta, Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus (San Francisco), and Advancing Justice - Chicago.