I saw two uniformed officers through the peephole: a white woman and a Black man. The fact that Asian women are punished for the ways white supremacy hypersexualizes our bodies is not unfamiliar to me. When I shared this story with other white women in college, they reacted with envy, “It’s not fair! They think you’re exotic.”The most recent example of this objectification of Asian women’s bodies came after six Asian women were shot and killed Tuesday in Georgia. Although I knew Asian American history and I knew that racism against me is not my fault, I could not escape the lingering psychological effects of having been racially profiled.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 18, 2021 05:03 UTC