“I was angry, frustrated, confused, scared, but it also broke my heart,” wrote Sakura Kokumai with the images of what happened
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Sakura Kokumai , an American Olympic karateka, reported on social media that she was training last week at Grijalva Park in Orange when a stranger started to yell at him for no reason .
Kokumai, from 28 years, it says that everything happened in the park where he trains frequently to prepare for the next Olympic Games . From one moment to another, the man appeared who began to yell nonsense at him.
“Basically I was just yelling things like, ‘ Don’t talk behind my back. Why are you looking at my car? ‘”Kokumai said in a conversation with KTLA . “So things like that made me realize that it could be something a little, I don’t know, out of place,” he added.
At the time, the athlete did not understand why what the man addressed her in a threatening tone, but when he got into his car, he heard the racist insults .
“Was angry, frustrated, confused, scared, but it also broke my heart how people could be so cold, “wrote the woman on Instagram.
“I was aware of the hatred against Asians that we are seeing . You see it almost every day on the news, ”said Kokumai, who is Japanese-American, but I didn’t think it would happen to me in a school I usually go to train for,” she explained.
The karate fighter said that she is still processing what happened and that she has not reported it to the police. But he took advantage of the speaker that Instagram gives him, where he has 23, 400 followers, to show that this guy things happen and that can happen to everyone.
“ We need to take care of each other “, he said to end his publication on the social network, in which he also invited to be respectful and kind. “It’s not that difficult,” he insists.
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