Asian-Americans are the left's inconvenient minority
Drew Allen | American Thinker | July 8, 2021
"There are dark stains on the history of this nation," writes Kenny Xu in the preface of his groundbreaking new book, An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy. But the purpose of Xu's relevant and timely book is not to condemn America for its past, but to celebrate America for its triumphs.
Xu continues to say that "we should be proud to have made so much progress in mostly, though not completely, overcoming[.]"
The chief concern in America today is not how much farther we have to go to fulfill our original charter of freedom and equality for all, but just how far we have regressed in recent years from achieving this end. Americans fought a bloody civil war to right the wrong of slavery. Americans fought a non-violent Civil Rights Movement to end race-based segregation and discrimination.
All that progress is being undone and at a rapid rate. Xu identifies the root cause of America's rapid regression, writing, "[T]he attack on Asian-American excellence represents the decline of a larger concept in American society that has allowed its culture of excellence to prosper: meritocracy."
The Asian-American community has long experienced discrimination. Recall that Japanese-Americans were put in internment camps as recently as World War II. But despite the real and known discrimination against the Asian-American community in America, hundreds of thousands emigrated to this country still. Xu writes, "Asians emigrate for a variety of reasons and motivations, but one thing unifies them: a desire to experience the American Dream."
This is a stark and important distinction between the Asian minority and other minority groups in America.