Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

Picture from The Wall Street Journal ( Aug. 9, 2020) In the summer of 2017, my two sons and I were returning to the US together. We were confused during the New York JFK airport passport, and security transition noticed and decided to seek help from an employee. I asked my questions to the security guard, who African-American woman, and I added that I am still learning English and sometimes have difficulty understanding. The guards made a different facial gesture, then turned to me and said, "You don't know English, so why are you coming here?" said. It was a long question for me, and no needed to answer it. My children and I were able to look at each other and just said okay. Then, without changing her tone, she said something to me with some gestures and turned away without even looking back. When I asked what she said to us, my son said that I felt very distressed. We never talked about that issue again with my children, and frankly, we pretended not to hav...