Anti-Asian discrimination can manifest in subtle ways

In the past three months I have experienced racial discrimination at two jobs. One was at a restaurant, with both one of the managers shouting, screaming, and treating me rudely and a couple customers, who spoke in a very demeaning tone to me as a server. The other incident, more recent, was at a private tennis organization where I was sidelined and given fewer hours and less ideal coaching duties.

Anti-Asian discrimination can manifest itself in subtle ways in private contexts as well and it often doesn't get the Congressional support and civil rights attention that the black/white paradigm gets in the news, but from my perspective it is still alive and very present.

In my local county, the county government and school board also refuses to come clean about an employment discrimination issue from four years prior and has even sent the police in the past to surveil, harass, and silent me as an educator. As a result a community oversight board overseeing the police was established and the last chief stepped down.

To all those who are out there who struggle with anti-asian discrimination, know that you are not alone and not the only one. Wishing you peace, solidarity, and justice.