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Racist rhetoric against asians and asian-americans has become a real problem in the us

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...the corona virus that originated in china the president is promoting this kind of

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language she refers to an has refer to the virus as the china virus as the

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con flu and asian-americans are reporting an increase

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in racist encounters after one of my cnn colleagues amar walker experience

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three such incidents during just one trip to new orleans international airport she talked

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about it online on twitter she wrote quote I hate that I have to say this but I

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belong we asian-americans belong I was born and raised in the us

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...as american as apple pie and I'm as american as korean barbecue

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I'm american please don't question me about that fact ever and we're walker

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is joining us now camera thank you for writing about this I think this was so important for

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people to understand what a lot of asians and asian-americans in the us has been

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going through tells what happened you and that's why I wrote about it and I wanted to be a voice

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for so many of us asian-americans who don't speak out when these kinds of things happen and I do want to say

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...it's...I had encounter just one racially charged incident yesterday

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I wouldn't have probably posted about it but it was the fact that it happened

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back-to-back to back within a span of an hour every on is what really

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shook me to my core and right now I have to admit I'm shaking right now and I

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still can't believe that we went through this that I went through this ok, so, here's what

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happened first incident I'm walking to the airportan older gentleman stops he pulls

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out his mask looks at me and says ni how which is hello and chinese

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...ching chung which is a racial slur that's been used for decades and I was stunned and

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...happen to me before sadly but,

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every time it happens it shocks me and like I've done in the past I

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just kept walking I don't...say and,

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she walked away and the more I thought about it my blood was just boiling and,

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thankfully I ran into him inside the terminal he was standing right behind me when I

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try to buy souvenirs from a husband and daughter and I

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turned around and I said to him in a really strong voices...do you understand what you said to

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me was racist and it was racially charged you understand sir and he

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...of looked at me with the smug look and he just said I...know what you're talking about it

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and he walked away from ...I walked to the gate where my producer sitting and,

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I was...won't believe what just happened I'm really upset here's what happened and I'm not cheating as

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if on cue literally within like five minutes a young man walks up

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...front of the one sitting at my gate and he's not wearing a mask comes right up to my

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face and says hey do you speak english because like?

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I can't believe this is happening and the first thing I mean I shot back immediately because I was very angry and I said,

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why would you assume that I don't speak english tell me why would you

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...speak english and he said...know what language

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do you speak and I said well obviously english braille cystic spanish because I knew he

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was expecting that I would say chinese or japanese or korean anyway I mean

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and then he started to mumble and speaking coherently it sounded like he was

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mocking the asian language my producer was really disturbed by all this

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...also the people who are sitting at the gate started yelling at him to get away from me because I kept

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telling you gotta leave me alone we're in a pen deck,

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you know, put on a...because he was getting close he was not wearing a mask and he was getting close

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to you exactly, you know, and,...in my personal space and then

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your producer basically got security right got a police officer and

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...what happened...interjected and,

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he said...is where?

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And, talk about point salt into a gaping wound right I mean I totally officer what

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happen brianna and my producer who was upset said, yeah, and, you know,

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this guy was saying racial slurs

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to her can you believe that the police officer stopped.

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She approached my producer literally again almost nose to nose and again we're in a

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...damage and he said very angrily.

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That is not racist asking someone that they speak english

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that is not racist okay do you understand me and I mean this police officer was I

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would say six-foot-four six and he was huge and I was intimidated everyone around us

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as watching my poor producer was, you know, both nervous and scared and we said okay,

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fine it was a racist and, he walked away they did tracking down but, you know,

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I was so shaken by all of this so disturbed that my

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producer kind of shoot me onto the plane...just you gotta get away from this, you know,

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but, I do we want to say that my producer was extremely defensive of me and also there

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was about five or six people who are sitting at the gate who came to my defense and

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we're apologizing for no reason they had nothing to apologize for but, the

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end date express their shock, yeah,

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I mean and it's thank goodness they were there also just to kind of back you up and support you but

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union you write-in this talking about getting made fun of as a child

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but I also wonder if here

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and just the pre in the sort of like, you know, recent years but the pre

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covert error did you ever experienced anything like this I know you

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travel a lot for work have you ever been through anything like this no absolutely not I mean

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for to happen and look these are all I believe are unrelated incidents right but,

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it for to happen so quickly in succession ...about forty five minutes to an

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hour that's me was what knocked me off my feet and realize I want to make it clear

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...it's not about me because asian-americans across the country deal with

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...on a regular basis and we're not talking about it and many

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asian-americans don't raise our voices including myself

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I probably wouldn't have written about this if this wasn't so egregious and,

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this is why I'm speaking out on normally a private person but I want to be

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that voice and I have to say I've gotten so many emails from strangers and even colleagues at cnn

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but I've never met who are asian or of asian descent...said thank you so much for talking about this and

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...to people why it is racially insensitive to assume

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that I don't speak english or anyone else looks like with doesn't speak english why would you assume that

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because you're saying that this is not american that we are foreigners

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your marginalizing as you're telling us we don't belong and I hate and I wrote in my

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piece...you know, on my...I hate that I have to say I belong

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I'm american as you why do I have to justify that I'm american why because of the way

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I look you're judging by my skin color, yeah, no,

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you shouldn't have to and look you normally tell other people stories I know it's kind of a weird position for you

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to be in but I also think there's so many people going through this you don't have the platform you

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have like you said it clearly...appreciative that this is being discussed they're going

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through this you unfortunately have been through this camera and I just really I really want to thank you for

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coming on and talking about it and putting a face on it thank you thank you...just mention one thing

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bring on I mentioned my post that...for the sake of the story the first

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gentlemen who approach me was amount of color and I got a little bit of

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flack about that on social media I mentioned it and because there's this

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misconception out there that only white people are racist or you can't be racist if

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...minority this man I believe look to be south asian.

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...I appreciate you coming on thank you so much for being here.

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Thank you.