Asian-American council member removes shirt to show scars of war

Butler County, USA – Aa Asian-American West Chester board member showed his scars at a town hall meeting to force a point about who is and who isn’t American.

Lee Wong suffered the wounds during active service in the U.S. military. Tuesday he showed them as proof of his devotion to America, the same country where he says he’s suffered numerous incidents of discrimination for his heritage.

Wong arrived in America as a student in the late ‘60′s. While in Chicago, he says he was assaulted for being Asian.

“That put me to the hospital. That was my first experience,” Wong said.

Wong says he still faced discrimination, even after 20 years of dedication to the US military.

“Walk out grocery store. Father with a kid and little boy would go like this”, Wong pulling back his eyelids to his temples.

Then, whilst campaigning, Wong says people would come up and tell him he “Didn’t look American enough. When someone comes up and says that to me, it’s like a stab in my heart,” he said.

Hence his statement, just days after the spa shootings in Atlanta that killed eight, most of them Asian women.

Wong says he just wants to go back to the basics of what he says is the American way.

“Love one another, your neighbor, be kind, be gentle, treat other people with dignity and respect,” Wong added.

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