Yesterday TFP read some VERY unfortunate commentary delivered, via article in the Washington Post, by one of the Asian Americans who ran for the Democratic Nomination this past year – and not the good one.
That was Kamala Harris.
Nope – she always makes sense and speaks eloquently on a variety of subjects.
Kamala Devi Harris is a proud graduate of Howard University, and University of California, Hastings College of Law. She is of Indian and Jamaican heritage.and whatever you believe based on policies she was responsible for holding up while Attorney General of California from 2011-2017, doesn’t matter.
She was chosen by the people to uphold the laws at the time, and she did.
She is an effective lawmaker who has been serving with distinction in the Senate – supporting single payer healthcare, paths to citizenship of undocumented immigrants, a ban on assault rifles and much more.
This one, Andrew Yang, is the one in the hot seat today.
The one who makes math jokes and caters to white supremacists. He is a corporate lawyer who grew up in New York, he went to Brown, and then Columbia University for Law.
He worked for a test prep company as an executive, and then founded VFA – which recruits top college grads into a two year fellowship program at startups in developing cities.
Since dropping out of the Presidential nominee process, he has been somehow dubbed as the ‘go to’ guy for Asian American commentary – which is ludicrous, because we have Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, ReAppropriate.com, CAAM, CAATA, EWP, PAN ASIAN REP, MA YI, SILK ROAD – a bunch of folks who have been doing this their whole lives, and who can speak on the day to day of AAPI issues.
People tracking the violence which grows day by day!
MOST recently, as in within the last day – he has been talking about how Asian Americans – not even halfway through the anti-Asian sentiment and attacks due to the POTUS’s racist remarks while telling the nation about COVID-19 – need to ‘prove’ that we are more
American than anyone one else.
Because that will stem the tide of racism.
Which makes TFP – who has, yes, been verbally attacked both prior to COVID-19 and since, wanna go…
Let’s first get something out of the way- ‘we’ do not have to ‘prove’ anything.
To anyone.
If someone attacks you, if someone calls you a slur – you are NOT responsible for what that person decided to visit upon you, based solely on your appearance.
Andrew Yang has some issues, that is for sure. Take a look at this quote from the article:
Why would you allow yourself to feel ashamed of a virus?
It’s a virus, you idiot.
Viruses can and do start anywhere there are conditions available for animal to human transfer.
Mike Masaoka, part deux is something that the AAPI community does not need right now, ANDREW….
Thankfully, TFP is watching AAPIs clap back at him – both on her private social media and her public one – but still…this is infuriating.
‘You have the right to defend yourself against hatred and self-hatred‘ is the tagline from THE SENSEI a film by D. Lee Inosanto.
Hold on to that, Folks, because apparently defending ourselves against FOX Viewers is not enough, we have to look to our ‘own’ to keep us down, keep us ‘kow towing’.
STOP TALKING YANG!
STOP TALKING!
ANDREW YANG IS UNINVITED TO DIM SUM, Yum Cha, Sushi, Hibachi, Korean BBQ and anything else – because you know what – ‘we’ are not apologizing for racists acts enacted upon us.
WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIOLENCE DONE TO US.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO TRY HARDER TO BE AMERICAN – HOW ABOUT THE RACISTS TRY HARDER TO BE HUMAN!
YOU HOLD YOUR HEADS HIGH AND WALK WITH PURPOSE,
YOU DON’T APOLOGIZE TO ANYONE!
Not for your existence. Not for your Asian-ness. Not for your Sexuality. Not for how your Identify. Not for whom you Love – none of it.
And certainly not for your American values – of which you embody every single one.
YOU ARE GORGEOUS, YOU ARE PROUD, and NO ONE ‘created” this VIRUS on purpose – it just happened, because pandemics and viruses just happen – and it is how you handle it that makes it better or worse.
Clearly, Andrew Yang errs on the side of making it worse.
TFP out.
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