you don't need to speak it

on juneteenth, after going to the iraqi oil union leaders speak out event, i was thinking of going to the seiu660’s juneteenth event, walking down wilshire. a black guy approaches me on a bike, by the sidewalk

• 한국인이세요?
• huh? how do you speak korean?
• you can’t speak korean?
• no, i just found it suspicious that you don’t look korean and yet speak it
• 예, 저 한국 사람이에요.
• … 혼혈이세요?
• 네

인정 받고 싶다는 건가.

while he was getting away

• hey! you don’t need to speak the language to be korean.

왠만하면 새겨들으시라.