Home | Workshops & Consulting | Poster Store | "Must Read" Bookshelf | Social Justice Store | Tell a Friend | Email Us
They Don’t Understand
by Julia Au

They don’t get what it truly means to be caught between two worlds,
immensely incoherent from one another,
yet ultimately grouped as one.

The towers cascade from mountains
that separates your ignorance,
of not understanding the battle I am waging
against you.

You traveled here with intentions I grew up learning,
You overshadow my heritage
and captured only the hearts of your form,
that you have delicately selected,
deserting myself to a mound of tears.

You don’t know what it feels to be made fun of as a kid,
ditched and abandoned as a teen,
or even how it feels to be unwanted, ignored as an adult.

Chinese American is what they call me.
You are just Chinese.

So don’t say what you know if you don’t understand.

[ Back to Voices! Index ]

EdChange Consulting and Workshops on Multicultural Education, Diversity, Equity, Social Justice
Feminist Tees
Teaching for Change Social Justice Bookstore
SoJust.net
EdChange Social Justice Store
Multicultural Poster Store
Home | Defining Multicultural Education | Teacher's Corner | Free Hand-outs | Awareness Quizzes | EdChange Research Room | Social Justice News Service | Teacher Action Research | Curriculum Reform | Social Justice Speeches Project | Multicultural Song Index | Awareness Activities | Voices! Poetry E-Journal | Quips and Quotations | Digital Divide and EdTech | Join the Listserv | Film Reviews | Other Sites | About Me | Email Us


NAME IAIE a Legacy of Grace

Founded and still maintained by Paul C. Gorski, PhD
© EdChange.org and Paul C. Gorski, 1995-2008