I intended to make this blog focused on my travel stories. But, with the racial injustice issues going on in the US right now, I feel that I need to make my voice heard and I do not want to be silent anymore. So……

Here’s me making some “Good Trouble”

Today, my best friend who lives in Dallas sent me a photo of a letter targeted to the Indians and Chinese in her community that read “RETURN TO YOUR COUNTRY” with a violent death threat of what would happen if they don’t leave. My friend and her husband are immigrants and they are Indian.

My. Heart. Broke. In. Pieces. Today. I cried and sobbed. HOW DARE THEY SAY THAT? I am an immigrant and this is an insult to me. My parents gave up their jobs in Taiwan and sacrificed everything to immigrate to the US. This country was built by people like my parents and like my friend’s parents- yes, immigrants. We came here to learn YOUR language, YOUR culture, YOUR food, but you never chose to learn ours and you won’t even accept our differences in your presence.

So where is this greatness that America talks about? If greatness is separating Mexican kids from their parents at the border and throwing them in cages, or shooting a black man 7 times in the back while he was walking away or telling your Indian and Asian neighbors to go back from where they came from… then we may not have the same definition for “greatness.”

In summary, I’m angry, I’m hurt and I don’t want to stay silent anymore. We need to embrace diversity and know that we are all equal no matter the color.

And for my black friends, BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!