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I was driving on Fountain Avenue in L.A. on my way to drop off my infant at daycare when a white guy in his twenties driving in the opposite direction came to a stop next to me. He asked if I was Asian and I said, "Of course I am." Then he said, "Then you should not be driving" and then drove off.
News Report here: http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-school-coach-in-hot-water-for-alleged-racially-11018248.php
I was exiting a locally-owned hardware store in a small city where I was born and lived practically my entire life, in broad daylight, when a man in his late-thirties, early-forties, aggressively followed me across the parking lot to my car screaming and mimicking the sounds of an AK-47. He yelled: "JAP", "VIETNAMESE", "YELLOW [n-word]," all the while threatening to rape me and ship my remains back to where I come from. I ran when I noticed he'd escalated to picking up a pipe...
When I decided to self-advocate and report the incident, I was met with some shock, some dismissal, and because I work in non-profit/social services, I immediately recognized how difficult the process was (e.g. jumping through hoops, assumptions made, writing long reports).
How would this process seem to my say older mother, who comes from a different culture of let's let it go, and who might be afraid to sit behind a sheet of glass and answer questions to a stranger. What about someone for whom writing is difficult or impossible?
I'm a 2nd generation "ABC" (American-born Chinese) in the Bay area, live in a pretty liberal area of California (Oakland), and haven't experienced all too much racism.
Just this morning, I went to my usual coffee place and a man comes up to me and tells me to go back to my country. Nobody in the cafe said anything.
Full Report here: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/chinese-man-whacked-umbrella-bus-queens-hate-crime-article-1.2997752
Yesterday, while I sent out text messages to our community members in regards to voters receiving improper purge notices, I got a truly racist text back with "ching chong ...... and F@%k off." It is fine that they want to opt out of text message program but to have blatantly racist comment and text, this is unacceptable. #ThisIs2017
Me and my fiancé were sitting in our car when an older white man got into his car parked behind us. He noticed our Planned Parenthood bumper sticker. He started looking around our car. I got out to ask him if there was a problem and he started harassing me and asking me "Do you like to kill babies?" I got back in my car and locked the doors. He pulled up next to us and told me to roll the windows down, and when I did he said "You're not from here are you?" He told me I should leave the town and go back to where I came from.
My husband and daughter were followed home, after returning from her piano lessons. The man got out and was approaching the side of the car our daughter was on, so my husband got out and asked him what he wanted.
He said, ""You don't live here, this isn't your neighborhood, you don't belong here, why are you driving around in your sketchy Audi, what are you doing here."" He also said he lives in our neighborhood and told him his name.
My husband told him, "I live here" and didn't want to open our garage door but the guy wouldn't leave and started filming my husband, so my husband sent our daughter inside and the guy left.
At this point he knows where we live. He was a white male. My husband is Asian. Somehow my husband had the ability to remember his license plate.
We called the police dept., they came and took our statement, traced the plates and went to his house. They confirmed that the guy lives in our the neighborhood. The guy basically said that this is his neighborhood and he is going to do what he wants. The officer said the guy thinks he's ""entitled"" to do what he wants. They think he had been drinking and my husband thought that as well. The police told him that if he does that again, he will be going to jail.
There was no road rage, there was no previous altercation, there was no excuse for what he did. This was racism. I post this because I want people to know that this is happening. I want him to be held accountable for trying to intimidate my family at our house and that now I have to tell our children not to walk alone and to be extra cautious because one of our neighbors doesn't think we "belong here."
Full Report here: https://nextshark.com/jon-nguamsanith-asian-american-man-trump-fan-racist-tirade/amp/
Incident occurred in November 2016:
While walking through the streets of New York City, I was called "chink" and told to go back to China. The men shoved me out of the way, with no apologies, laughed, and belittled me for my skin, my nonexistent accent, and my culture. I was born and raised in Manhattan.
Incident reported on February 22:
A man was removed from a United Airlines flight bound for Houston after making multiple racist comments to a couple in front of him.
According to KHOU, passengers were boarding a flight in Chicago when an unidentified man asked a Pakistani-Indian couple, "That's not a bomb in your bag, is it?"
Full News Story: http://www.sfgate.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Man-kicked-off-flight-to-Houston-That-s-not-a-10950635.php
I am an international student and a TA at the University of Texas at Austin. While I was presenting during the class, one of my students said, "GO BACK TO CHINA. GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY." I feel that this is so rude. I am even not from China.
Group of white cis-gendered men in jerseys said to me, "let me roll your sushi." I am Korean.
(this incident occured in 2013)
It was about 10:30 am in Forest Hills, New York. I was walking to the train and realized I forgot something at home. As I was reaching the corner, I passed a man who was walking to cross the street perpendicular to where I was headed. I walked in front of him, but passed by about 3-4 feet. He started yelling at me to learn my manners and say "Excuse me" or I should go back to Beijing. I didn't respond and he started yelling "You stupid chink, I'm telling you to go back to Beijing."
It was the first time in my adult life I had ever faced prejudice, but it is even more soul crushing when it happens on the street you live on. I kept my head down and walked past my house because I didn't want the guy to know where I lived.
My three friends and I were three minutes away from our airbnb (we had braved a storm to get there) when the host cancelled on me, pointing out that I was Asian and "wanting something for nothing", saying "it's why we have trump", that she will "not be ordered by foreigners" and that I was acting like I was at a "BOGO buffet" for verifying what we had previously discussed: that I could bring two guests (she had said yes before, just needed to pay 50 per person per night) and my two tiny two-pound puppies (the ad said dogs considered case-by-case).
She was very disrespectful and I cried. Fortunately, there was a news crew (KTLA 5) covering the storm next to us where we parked, and the anchor interviewed me about the airbnb incident. Airbnb issued me a full refund and agreed to reimburse us for different accommodation. I have screencaps of the conversation.
[A link to the incident: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Southern-California-Airbnb-cancellation-racial-dispute-418466753.html ]