How does one feel after experiencing extreme racism?

In the poem “What do you remember about the evacuation” By “Joy Kogawa” The author talks about a little girl in a train on her way to one of the many Japanese internment camps but other kids and people discriminate them by hating and spitting on them nd the little girl talks about how much she does not like herself and she wish that she was white. “And Tim flew the Union Jack When the war was over but Lorraine And her friends spat on us anyway”(Line 34,35,36) this symbolizes that even though Tim is trying to tell the other people that he is still a Canadian and not a bad person Lorraine and her friend still spat on them anyways so this shows that even though Tim is trying to tell them he is a good guy the girls do not trust him just because of his culture. In this line “that I might be white”(Line 39) Shows that because of how other people treat her she does not even like herself anymore. Despite trying to keep her heritage and trying not to give it up the girl ends up having shame because of what other people said and she knows that no matter what she does this is how the world sees her and this is what she has to live with.

By: Tristan Romani