Confronting hostility

I've never really dealt with that kind of stuff, growing up, especially in Hawai'i. However, when I did visit my sister this past fall break, it was actually kind of scary. So, me and my friend, who's also Asian and also from Hawai'i, we were walking down the Ave., which is like kind of in the campus area of University of Washington. And it's obviously different there because for us [at Notre Dame] it's very much like a campus community, like we're far from, we're not really too much in the city or anything, but for UW they're like in the city. So like everyone's walking all over the place.

So we're walking to this one restaurant and then all of a sudden I like check my shoulder and then I noticed that this guy is like speeding up behind us and all of a sudden he just starts yelling or mumbling things. So I tell my friend, okay, let's go into this shop just to make sure, like, just that we're safe or something. So as we're walking into this random shop, he comes by us and then he just starts yelling. He's like, oh, you slanted eyed monkeys, like, take your mask off. Because we were wearing masks at the time just because I was traveling just to be safe, and like, she wears her mask too just because she prefers to wear her mask.

But that definitely scared me. Like, that's the first time I've ever been scared in that sense, just because of my race.