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” My son, confused, told the boy I’m a New Jersey Young Boy,” the congressman published in a Twitter thread Saturday.
My 5 year old boy came home and asked me why bigger kid kept calling him Chinese Young boy. #StopAsianHate THREAD pic.twitter.com/LIgU965 ZhO
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) March 27, 2021
Kim, a father of 2 kids, represents New Jersey’s 3rd District and is a previous White House National Security authorities and Rhodes Scholar.
Kim’s story comes in the middle of increased public awareness of the discrimination Asian Americans face, as well as problem parents face understanding their kids will deal with discrimination that will “most likely be worse and possibly violent,” he wrote.
Kim said he was “sad” over what was his child’s very first direct exposure to discrimination, and remarked that even as a member of Congress, he can not pass a law that will absolutely remove his son’s threat of discrimination.
” I’m a bit worried,” he wrote.
Updated 2: 17 PM ET, to include a declaration from Kim to Newsweek.
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