racial oppression

I’ve lived a comfortable life by not being forced to get a job as soon as I was of working age. I had a computer, my own room and I grew up in a nice neighborhood. My environment affected me a lot while I was growing up, by being sheltered to some experiences that I would have received in another area. We do not have to worry about theft or violence, and either it did not occur to me or racism just was not there up until junior high. Now I think back, I had to deal with racism ever since I arrived in America.
When I just came to America about 12 years ago, I couldn’t speak a word of English. I distinctively remember American kids would make fun of me, the way I look, the way I dressed and the way I talked. They would also go, ?oooooh Ching chong ching chong chong ching.?It’s scary to know that 12 years ago, people were racially oppressing me. I have always thought of it just as a joke and that they didn’t know Chinese so they were trying to speak my language. How naïve coul...