Garrison Davis

Like it was kind of one of those scenarios or like, or did you kind of like, I may be putting a little more on it.

Like you said, you weren't aware of...

you're you're presenting but did you did you feel sort of culturally that like i i feel like i belong here is that was is that true yeah i mean i didn't understand i understood that i looked a little bit different than everybody around me fine yeah a little bit not a time like i'm not you know like

I'm a quarter Filipino.

Like, it's not.

I understood that I looked a little bit different.

I did not understand why that mattered.

Word.

For a really long time.

And then like the older I got, the more it would be like I go out into school and the sort of racism that I would get would be when people mistook me for being Latina or when people mistook me for being black.

That's when I would get like act like really bad because where I'm from in Virginia Beach is the largest Filipino population on the East Coast.

Word.

So Filipinos being around people were kind of used to, but it was when people thought that I was not just other, but a whole other other, you know, than what they were used to.

And I didn't, I didn't understand.

Like I was born into this household.

Like I grew up with, we've all watched the same fucking NASCAR races.

We eat the same food.

We listen to the, I have to listen to your stupid ass Rush Limbaugh.

So like, why am I different?

It doesn't make sense to me.