Notice of Public Hearing

"Sorry we don't need more Ch**ks out here" was written on a "Notice of Public Hearing" flyer in front of a place that used to be a dry cleaner/laundromat. 

They're everywhere

A black lady and her 10-ish year old daughter were saying that the city has been taken over by Asians and that they need to take it back. As I was walking passed by them, the lady said, "Just look at him [me]! There are so many of them! They are everywhere!" 

Have a Green Card?

Incident occurred January 14: 

An older (drunk) white gentleman asked if I had a green card and then told me to go back where I came from. I was born in San Diego. 

Spat on the Face

Incident occurred January 10: 

When I was walking home and a Caucasion male in a full winter outfit and a hat charged towards me and spat on my face multiple times. He called me a gook and he kept repeating, "I live here!"

Racial slurs while fixing a car

This incident occurred on January 23: 

On Monday, my father-in-law was fixing his car headlights in our condo community parking lot. He was approached by one of the neighbors who began yelling and cursing, accusing him of leaving trash on “his” lawn (mind you it is a community greenbelt). My wife’s father kindly advised that there was nothing littered, but the neighbor continued spewing racial slurs and yell, “go back to your country you f*cking dog!” Apparently, this fine gentleman even took his time to find my in-law's Facebook profile and has been sending him aggressive messages. It’s a sad to see that a simple argument (that, to my knowledge, was unwarranted) comes to this. He has harassed me at work via phone and email with similar racial slurs.

Shot for Pokemon Go

Incident occurred on January 26: 

A 60-year-old Chinese American, Jiangsheng Chen, was sitting inside his vehicle playing Pokemon Go, when he was shot 5-10 times by a security guard.

News coverage found here: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/fear-his-life-led-security-officer-shoot-60-year-old-n717481

Zipperhead

Incident occurred on January 30: 

There were people who called me a chink and threw rocks at me. Some white guy told me, "You don't belong here. Get lost zipperhead. The whites own this country, you f**got."

Street harassment in Oakland

Man yelled "motherf**king ch*nky halfbreed" as I walked past him on the street.

Almost Hit

Incident occurred in November 2016: 

I was crossing the street toward my law firm's office when suddenly a car drove up right beside me, almost hitting me. The man in the vehicle rolled down his window and shouted, "Go back to f**ing China!"

"How's that dog tasting?"

Incident occurred on January 20: 

While I was at the mall's food court, I saw a group of bros being generally rude, making sexual remarks about women and denigrating homosexuals. A Korean American sat a couple of tables away from them, and then the group of men started loudly talking about how they're going to "flood this chink's rice paddy." One of the guys goes over there and says, "Hey gook how's that dog tasting? Looks a little dry there!" He then proceeded to dump his Gatorade all over the guy's lunch and walks away laughing, telling the guy to go back to China.

I've never really seen anything like it, but I guess this is par for the course in Trump's America

"Go Back to Where You Came From"

Incident occurred January 16: 

I, a white woman, was walking to the neighborhood grocery store with my five-year-old Chinese American son, who was riding his scooter. A small dog ran up to my son, who told it to "go away." The dog's owner told me to "teach him some manners" and then turned to my son and yelled at him to "go back to where you came from!"

Verbal Assault at Whole Foods

Incident occurred in November 2016: 

I was driving out of a Whole Foods parking garage and as I was waiting for the gate to open, my payment got stuck in the machine. While this was happening, a man behind me started to scream at me, "F*ing Chinese bitch. Hurry the f**k up." In my 20 years of living in this country, I have never been verbally assaulted with racial slurs.

People "Like Us" Need to Leave the Country

This incident occurred on January 24:

While I was driving, I was cut off by two ladies in a Chevy. I honked at the car because they almost hit me. The driver rolled down her car window and started yelling at me and my kids, telling us to "go back to your country" and that her president will deport us. She said that we have no business being in "their" land and that people "like us" need to leave the country. I am a citizen of the USA and I pay my taxes. This is plain ignorance and road rage.

"Ching, ching, ching"

Incident occurred in October 2016: 

I was walking to the YMCA when a group of high school boys muttered "ching, ching, ching" under their breath, but just loud enough for me to hear. They were giggling. At this particular Y, there are a lot of Chinese speaking members, many of whom don't speak English. I guess these boys assumed I didn't speak English and wouldn't catch on to their blatant racism.