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This is not it, Andrew.
It shouldn’t be on Asians to prove we’re American by sacrifice. That hasn’t protected us before and won’t now.
We prove we’re American by fighting things that should be un-American, like racism—and not just when it happens to us. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/andrew-yang-coronavirus-discrimination/
It shouldn’t be on Asians to prove we’re American by sacrifice. That hasn’t protected us before and won’t now.
We prove we’re American by fighting things that should be un-American, like racism—and not just when it happens to us. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/andrew-yang-coronavirus-discrimination/
The idea that Asians can overcome racism by bending our heads and working harder—shrugging it off when it happens to us, ignoring it when it happens to others—is the main pillar of model minority myth, and it has been devastating for coalitions with Black Americans and other POC. https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1245755094529765377
