'Perpetual Foreigners': Two Asian Americans Reflect On Living In MassachusettsWell, I've never been attacked ... but I've certainly felt it and I feel it in various different ways. I remember, for example: I live in a community south of Boston and the first time I took my young son to a daycare facility that they had at the local high school ... I thought, 'This is great.' They had a little daycare that was essentially free. And I'll never forget, my son, who I think was about three years old, and he walked up the steps of the high school and students from the upper floors shouting "g---, g---, g---" at myself and more or less, at my son. And I'm sorta somebody who understands the racism and so forth involved. But the impact on my kids and just seeing them do this to my kids — this is the sort of way in which I reflect on these sorts of things.
I have to say about White people chanting racial slurs at people they don't know or have ever seen before: This was not uncommon in the '80s and '90s. I remember dudes driving by me in Schaumburg in the '00s yelling racial slurs at me.
People inclined to do that with the encouragement President of the United States Donald Trump are bound to get violent.