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    I Am Not Your “Other”

    I’m a Cambodian-American from Long Beach, California. But to a prison system that limits its population categories to “Black,” “White” and “Hispanic,” I’m the race version of a misfit toy.
    by Kunlyna Tauch Jul 10, 2020 3 minutes

    Growing up Cambodian and poor in the Eastside of Long Beach, California, I never really fit in. To me, Black, brown and yellow people were all stigmatized, and I felt a sort of kinship with my fellow oppressed groups. But history books, class discussions and the national conversation about racism was always centered around Black and White. The African Americans I identified with never mentioned our similar struggle, and we Cambodians were nonexistent to White people.

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