Our America
How to Talk to Your Parents About Politics: Part 1
- By Dominique Fong
Photo Credit: Marcela McGreal, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Young Asian Americans describe how they’re coming to terms with political differences at the dinner table and in society
When Jamie Gee joined a Black Lives Matter protest last year, the crowd marched peacefully through downtown Oakland until it got to the city’s Chinatown district, where Gee saw some people smashing windows and spraying graffiti on the walls of Chinese businesses.
“That was upsetting,” Gee said. “I could see they were actively hurting my community.” Soon after the protest, Gee, a 34-year-old middle school teacher who is Chinese...