Reading racist comments in my high school yearbooks, my daughter thought they were written by enemies. In fact, they were written by my friends.
The film My Name is Arnold is screening at the Victoria Film Festival in February. It’s a short film about filmmaker Arnold Lim’s childhood experience growing up with immigrant Korean parents in a small rural B.C. town.
In a powerful scene, little Arnold justifies his actions of retaliation by saying they called me “C---k.” His mother responded that she gets called that, too, and ignores it. When I looked down at the pages in my yearbook, I was a little shocked at the words. I read them, then answered my daughter: “Those were from my close friends.”Some of the comments included “What’s up Indian,” “Hey Prairie N-Word,” and “Keep on drinking the Lysol.”I am not in touch with my former classmates, I moved away at 18. I feel in my heart that the classmates who signed my books have gained understanding and wisdom and wouldn’t speak like that today.
When I was 14, I was walking with my friend from school when we passed a group of Indigenous teen boys in an alley. “Hey, white boy, come tie my shoes,” they yelled.Then the Indigenous boys looked at me and said: “What are you doing hanging out with that white boy?”Later, my friend told me how angry he was, and that they were out of line. I tried to tell him they were probably just trying to be funny.
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