Nina Yu still remembers the moment that stung, a moment when she was made to feel she shouldn’t be proud of who she is.“I remember one time saying the Pledge of Allegiance, and someone behind me goes, ‘Why are you standing up? You’re not American,’ ” said Yu, a junior at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids.
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