Ok. Wow. I haven't felt this low in a long time. Today in school, some kid comes up to me and just says, "I feel so sorry for you because your skin is the color of shit." I was shocked, and just stood there stupidly like a stunned goldfish or something. Then another time, a bunch of kids came up to me and started calling me "Porno" because my name is Suporna (an Indian name meaning immortal). Of course, it went downhill from there when they started yelling outside, "Indians are bloody, porn-loving bastards!"
I wanted to cry.
I honestly don't know what to do or say. I can't tell
them what to think or say, but I do wish they'd just shut up. Even me and my Chinese friend were taunted one day by this one idiotic blond kid in our science class, "Filthy Asians. Coming into America and trying to beat us to the real money. Why don't you just go back to your hellholes in India and China where you belong?!"
My friend didn't say anything...just took my wrist and tugged me away gently before I could morph into a piddling puddle of jello at the kid's feet.
So my question is: when something like this happens, what do you do? Do you stoop to their level and retaliate? Do you walk away like it didn't mean anything when really you want to scream? Do you tell someone only to find that it backfired on you?
Please, I need advice. Or one day I'll find my fist somehow lodged into another person's face, and I know for sure I will regret such a decision.
Bye.
