Yesterday in a conversation with my wife about the past the discrimination, prejudice including denial of service she faced when coming to America came up. Actually, I mentioned it. I have no doubt that anyone reading this will underestimate what it was like for a brown Southeast Asian in 1970 while the war in Vietnam was still in progress and we lived below the Mason-Dixon line.

Her comment that ended that conversation, "Past is past. I can go anywhere I want now."

Are there still occasional issues? During covid she had a bottle thrown at her and in a store she never returned to, she was followed around by a store employee (not trying to be helpful) like she thought the little brown lady was going to steal something. Yes, bigotry persists, but to compare it to 50 or 150 years ago is absurd. A tempest in a tea pot by comparison.