In shock

An unmasked man in his 30s verbally assaulted me on the subway line around 11:50am. I was sitting down and reading a book. He came into the car at a stop and started asking everyone to pay attention to him. When he neared me, he also demanded my attention and announced "You think I don't know? You eat live frogs, you people eat frogs, and cats and dogs." He was very loud. I was in so much shock I didn't say anything. Nor did any of the passengers sitting around me.

"Go back"

In a series of tweets in July, President Trump told four women of color currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives to ““go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” All four are U.S. citizens. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx, which she now represents. Her family is Puerto Rican. Representative Rashida Tlaib was born in and represents Detroit. She is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants. Representative Ayanna Pressley was born in Cincinnati, raised in Chicago, and now lives in and represents Boston. Representative Ilhan Omar fled Somalia with her family when she was a child. They received asylum in the US. She became a US citizen in 2000 and represents Minneapolis. Immigrants are familiar with such attacks, which are leveled at us to express that we don’t belong, that we are not and perhaps cannot ever be accepted as fully American. We never expected that such racist and xenophobic statements would be expressed by the President of the United States. Read more.