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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:
Learning about how early Chinese immigrants in California and Oregon were viciously attacked up and down the west coast, massacred, had their things taken, prevented from walking on the streets after sunset in nearby Antioch, prevented from buying property in many parts of the north and east bay, told they were diseased people who didn’t deserve the same rights as Europeans, even in death, helped me see that we think we live in a better, more enlightened time but we don’t.
It’s also taught me that I deserve to be here, and that I have more in common with a new immigrant family from Fuzhou or Taishan who still lives in a 8-to-one-room-in-Chinatown environment today, even if I have had many other privileges in comparison.
Without Wong Kim Ark, there would have been no birthright citizenship.