Asian Hate is Nothing New

But the uptick in violence warrants attention

Photo of the author as a child. Courtesy of the author’s parents

Fourth grade. My friend Richard, god bless his soul, was hiding under his desk again, fresh after another episode of eating Elmer’s glue straight out of the bottle. It was my second week at my new school in Stamford, Connecticut. Two girls walked up to me and did a weird thing with their eyes, stretching them out to the sides with their…