When I was young, I thought I
was White. Not only was my skin more fair than most of the White kids, I seemed
LEAGUES smarter than them, too. So, they put me back in the normal class with
normal kids. Oh yes, because they didn’t know what to do with Asian kids, they
put them in the Special Ed class, and they put me in ESL. Those racists thought
I would be slow and non-verbal. And when I showed them I thought faster than
the normal kids and spoke better than most of the normal speaking kids, they
felt I had justified my abilities and put me in with the normal education kids.
… And when I did better than them in class, I was called a show-off. (Talk
about a double standard.)
The funny part was, English
isn’t really my second language. Mandarin is. I grew up listening to, reading,
and watching Disney movies! And, I still remember watching old classics with my
parents, when Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn charmed their way through their
troubled lives, and Fred Astaire and Jean Kelly danced me through my dreams.
Oh, heck ya! I was White on the inside, and nicely beige on the outside. I knew
more about the classics and fairytales, could recite lines verbatim, and they
still thought I wasn’t qualified to be in the normal classes when they met me.
What the poop, right?!
I used to look at my classmate,
who was an autistic and wheelchair bound handicapped girl and wonder how we
ended up in the same class. Did they see me like this, too? And when Emily, her
normal friend, came in, we chatted like normal kids. I think there’s a real
problem with the way “All-Americans” see minorities. I was born in Texas and
raised in California, and yet, I’m still, somehow, a second-class citizen. It
just burns me up when I think about this. But then, again, if Trump ends up
being elected… many more of my kind will be back to where I had been when the
authorities in the school racially profiled me and put me in the special ed class.
BERNIE SANDERS FOR THE WIN!!!
*Honestly… if you look at his
politics and realize that the media doesn’t like him because he’s for the
PEOPLE and not big companies, you’ll understand why he is the best choice. I
mean, just check out his EDUCATION PLAN!!
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