While reading the graphic novel “They Called Us Enemy,” written by George Takei, I felt many different emotions, such as anger, sadness, and frustration. This graphic novel left me pondering different topics that I hadn’t given much thought to in the past, for example, is this persecution and hate still common and persistent in the world we know today?

As I began to look more into this question, I was able to use different recourses such as this Stop AAIP Hate website along with this Bearing Witness to Japanese American Incarceration website. I was able to learn more about the history of the racism and persecution that Asian Americans are forced to face every single day.

This left me feeling frustrated and at war with the world, along with the people in it. No one should have to go through the pain and hurt that Again Americans, as well as other POCs go through in their daily lives. The thought of being biased against a certain group of people especially over something that have no control over, like skin color, is quite frankly idiotic. Knowing as a privileged white woman that others have to feel this way is heart breaking, specifically knowing the fact that there are people I cannot control; and that I cannot control their actions to others.

Over the past month that we have been learning about Asian American hate, I’ve been able to see a side of the world that I was blind to before. I was able to see that I am privileged to not have to feel this type of pain or hurt that others experience constantly. I know that it is impossible to change the world myself and try to right wrongs, but I am more educated and properly equipped to try.