A college student posed for a now-viral pic while the person behind her showed a child a racist gesture. “It was incredibly unbelievable that those two were doing a racist gesture like this in public in an Asian space,” the college student says.
College student Rebekah Lee posing for a pic while a person behind her teaches a child a racist gesture.A college student shared a photo on Twitter that, at first glance, looks like a sweet pic of her holding her tasty-looking ramen, but upon further inspection, has something rather dark in the background., a ramen and yakitori restaurant located in Ponce City Market in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lee’s tweet uses a succession of images that zoom in to highlight a woman and her child both appearing to make a racist “slanted-eye" gesture. This gesture is a type of “It was incredibly unbelievable that those two were doing a racist gesture like this in public in an Asian space,” she says. “I couldn’t believe the publicity of that act and the shock to see a recreation of a racial taunt I hadn’t seen since elementary school.”
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