“I’ve been called a slave and told to pick cotton as joke and was told if you’re not white, then you’re not right, also as a ‘joke.’”

“I always felt that I was falling behind. I was bullied a lot, things like ‘why are you here if you don’t speak English?’. [There’s] a language barrier that we all have to overcome eventually. A lot of people don’t realize that this [English] is a second language. It’s a struggle in your younger years. I’ve worked hard to master both languages.”

“When I was little, I always had long hair and I was very proud of it. A lot of the kids at school did not get that that was something that [Native American] boys wore with pride. It was discouraging. I felt like I was being bullied for trying to honor who I was.”

“In terms of like everything that’s been happening with a pandemic, it’s definitely gotten worse...When I was handing papers over to a girl who I’ve known for years, she immediately kind of flinched back and said, “Don’t touch me. Get away from me.” And then she whispered to her friend and said, “I feel sick already, I think I have Covid.”...[Our class] had a trip planned to go to Chinatown and then despite everyone’s remarks about how Asian students in my school have Covid, how they’re scared, how the brutality against each other the Asians in the Bay Area are justified, they immediately jumped at going to Chinatown and they were so excited. So for them to be so hypocritical and say, “Oh, [you] carry the coronavirus” and all these racial slurs... to suddenly want to go to Chinatown, just because they want to skip out school, just felt really wrong.”