Andrew Yang says to combat racism, it's on us Asian Americans "to embrace and show our American-ness in ways we never have before."

1. It's not.

2. For generations, we've been asked to "prove our American-ness," yet we continue to be seen as "other." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/andrew-yang-coronavirus-discrimination/

His advice reinforces the model minority trope: we should just work hard, don't complain too much, etc. How has that worked out? We've been socially conditioned to NOT speak out about racism, minimize it, question it when it happens to us — when we should be doing the opposite.