Letter: Activists don’t represent Asian American voters on Yang

Letter: Activists don’t represent Asian American voters on Yang

Andrew Yang on May 4 receiving the endorsement of prominent Asian American and Pacific Islander groups. | lev radin/Shutterstock Since his arrival on the public scene, Andrew Yang has taken a great deal of flak from Asian American and Pacific Islander activists. On the presidential campaign trail his “Asian man who likes math” jokes were roundly criticized by sociologists and academics, while his Washington Post op-ed suggesting that Asian Americans should “show (their) American-ness” as a means of combating the rise in anti-Asian racism due to the coronavirus pandemic drew the ire of many Asian American voices in media […]

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