“Is This Patriot Sufficient?” The chosen Asian American reveals battle scars to show his loyalty

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Transcript:

“I am 69 years old and I will show you what patriotism, the questions about patriotism, look like. Here is my proof. This is being sustained by my service in the U.S. military.

Is this patriot enough now?

I am not ashamed to walk around anymore. Before I was inhibited, people looked at me strangely. And they question my loyalty to this country; I don’t look American enough. The last thing I read in the US Constitution is “We the People”. We are all the same, we are the same. Not that ‘you are superior, you are not’. “

Wong came to the US in the 1960s and has experienced anti-Asian racism since then. Wong told FOX19 in Cincinnati that he was once beaten up in Chicago for “being Asian”.

“That took me to the hospital,” Wong, a member of the West Chester, Ohio Board of Trustees, told the station. “That was my first experience.” But the discrimination didn’t end there.

FOX 19:

“Get out of the supermarket. Dad with a child and a young boy would go like this – “Wong pulled his eyelids back to his temples” – to me. I just said, “Hahaha, it’s just a kid.” But there is more to it. He learned it from someone.

During an election campaign as an elected official, Wong said people would come and tell him he didn’t look American enough. “When someone shows up and tells me that, it’s like a stab in my heart,” he said.

Hence the practice at City Hall on Tuesday, just days after the numerous spa shootings in Atlanta that killed eight people, including many Asian women.

Yes, it was a great – and in many ways intimate – gesture, and we all have to wonder why Wong thought this was necessary and what we can do about it.

Of course, you don’t have to have served in the military to be a “real” American, and it’s shameful that someone has to undress to prove their loyalty. But there we are. And it’s more than sad.

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