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Racist colleague

Reporter ‘devastated’ by hateful jibe

Lisa Ling, an American broadcast journalist of Chinese and Taiwanese descent, told the Duchess what happened at Channel One when she was named hot reporter in Rolling Stone’s Hot List.

“It was so exciting for me … this country bumpkin kid from a suburb of Sacramento,” she said. “It was such a moment for me, and someone at my place of work cut out that article, drew slanted eyes over the eyes, wrote ‘Yeah, right’, and then put it back in my mailbox.

“It was like every kernel of excitement that I possessed just withered away.

“It was so devastating that someone that I would see every day in my place of work, where we’re supposed to feel comfortable, just harboured those feelings about me and, and had the nerve to make it racial.”

She added: “Those stereotypes have been in my consciousness … they’ve really propelled me. When I’m in an environment where I know I’m the only Asian woman … I find myself not shying away from it and asserting myself … speaking louder and standing taller and claiming my space here.”

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