I wasn’t doing anything differently from everyone else around me, except speaking a different langue. I became the issue.

A first-person experience standing up to a racist, and how those uncomfortable with the situation resource to just letting it be.

En los últimos días hemos escuchamos la lista de los trabajadores esenciales constantemente. Para ser sinceros, al ver esta lista, mas que agradecimiento, me da ansiedad. Se que mas de la mitad de esos trabadores son mi gente. Son aquellos que un día tomaron sus cosas, se apretaron el corazón, y dejaron su tierra, su familia, su hogar, para buscar la manera de darle una vida digna a su familia.

What feels like years was just months ago. I remember learning about a virus that was spreading quickly in a faraway town in China. Coronavirus felt so foreign to me at the time.