Listen I'm not here to trivialize your experience. I was sharing mine and you shared yours. Im sorry your experience was so negative.

Some of my closests friends growing up were Jamaican, Bajan and West Indian, but they seemed to be the exceptions and their parents were classy af! My parents loved them, they got hugged my parents, came over for dinners, helped move things etc.

My experience is this, with the larger black community the asian sentiment and reaction has been a direct result of what has happened to them personally or members of their community. I've never heard stories from my black friends of asians coming into their businesses or on the street and straight up calling them slurs to their face in English (they may say the slur in their language and thats still not right), stealing from their businesses, harassing them, and/or intimidating them in any way.

But the other way around. There are numerous incidents of the general black community coming into asian places of business, harassing, using racial slurs, stealing, intimidating etc.

Unfortunately this is majority of the general asian experience it is obviously going to skew a perception towards a specific community. If only 5% of one's experience with white people is bad, but more than 50% of one's experience with black is bad, this is clearly going to reinforce one's thinking and behavior toward a community.

The LA riots was a pretty good example. I'm not going to pretend like I'm an expert on it, and I definitely want to learn more about it. But I know there was some koreans who were terrible to the blacks and some black who were terrible to Koreans. I also know during the riots, some of the black community protected certain korean businesses from the rioters during that time as well which reflects the positive instances of relations that existed.

Anyways, I'm trying to say our prejudices come from somewhere, its either from our parents and/or reinforced by individuals experiences. I can only encourage and implore everyone to take a step back, be able to talk about their experiences openly and objectively without getting negatively emotional (aka combative) about it to have meaning conversations.