China News Service, January 19. According to the US "World Journal" report, a Chinese woman living in Springfield, the capital of Illinois, was attacked by a local Lowe's store on the day of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Day. The incident of "go back to your country" abused by a white female customer caused a lot of repercussions after being reported.

Illinois Chinese-American state Rep. Ma Jingyi launched a petition on the 18th, asking the store to apologize and promising to strengthen employee training on ethnically sensitive issues.

　　After learning about the incident, Ma Jingyi said that the 17th was the anniversary of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King. People are sad.

　　Ma Jingyi launched a joint signature on the petition website on the 18th, asking Lowe's to issue an apology statement to the Chinese woman, and also asked the company to improve employee training on sensitive issues such as ethnicity. She called on everyone to join the joint signature.

　　Chinese women and friends also launched the "Letter to the CEO of Lowe's to Complain", hoping that one letter should be sent to each person, asking the company's CEO to clearly state that it has zero tolerance for ethnic discrimination, and at the same time asking the company to strengthen the training of employees on ethnic issues. and apologized to the Chinese woman.

　　The Chinese woman said that she went to the store on the 17th and wanted to buy braziers, but there were only two left at the time. After she took them down, she called her father because it was too heavy, so she called her father to help load the shopping cart before going to the checkout.

At this time, a white mother and daughter came over, and the mother said to the Chinese woman, "Do you want both? Have you paid the bill?" The Chinese woman replied that she wanted to buy both, but she was waiting for her family to help carry it, so she hadn't paid yet. The money, at which point the white woman said, "It's not yours until you pay, I'm going to take one."

　　The Chinese woman politely gave up one of the braziers to the woman. Unexpectedly, instead of thanking her, the woman told her, "You must know that this is the law of the United States, or you will go back to your country."

　　It is natural for the white woman to make racially discriminatory remarks, so the Chinese woman asked the other party to apologize on the spot, but she was rejected. She then followed the white mother and daughter to the checkout counter and explained the situation to another white male employee present, thinking that she could get solidarity. Big disappointment.

　　The male employee kept telling the Chinese woman that she must delete the video on her mobile phone immediately, and mentioned that "the video recording has threatened the safety of him and the whole store." Although the Chinese woman repeatedly stated that she had the right to record herself to protect herself, and hoped that the store could help the police, but The employee still insisted that the Chinese woman delete the video, apparently ignoring the discriminatory remarks of white women.

　　The Chinese woman said that the other two employees in the store came forward to coordinate, because she was too weak, she left the store and decided to announce the process after returning home, hoping to arouse the attention of all Asians, "Racism is omnipresent, whether it is big or small. In cities or small towns, only by speaking up bravely can we protect ourselves, our families and the next generation.”

(Huang Huiling)