Later that night, we were eating at a diner on Broadway. Maybe it was because it was such a random statement, or because he was a stranger, but it was most likely because he was white. Whether, we're looked at as the ideal male fantasy, the model minority, the refugee, we are constantly being faced with antagonism and hatred. It's strange, in fact, that after all the horrible episodes of the evening, we had a good time. I think it's easy to dismiss the majority of occurrences as though it sprung from the ignorant mouths of the uneducated, lower classes, but that wasn't the case.
Truth is, almost everyone's a racist and almost everyone hates immigrants.
In an ideal world, racism wouldn't touch us, we would be as invisible and untouchable as a white woman. Yet only when faced with such situations, do we realize that NYC can be a horrid place to live, that even though it's perhaps the most diverse city, it is also one of the most intolerant. All rights reserved.