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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I think Asians have earned that pass. We try our best to assimilate. We didn't suddenly become well educated, we worked hard.
Perhaps I'm just cheerleading and I am wrong in thinking others an earn it too.
African-Americans have been suppressed forever and it's wrong. But I haven't heard Trump say disparaging things about them unless I'm mistaken.
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Asian-Americans also generally have come to the US of their own free will, after coming from countries that are just as advanced economically as the US (admittedly Asian countries also have issues with mistreatment of those in poverty and other human rights issues, but those that have moved to the US generally are the fortunate, not the poverty-stricken). There's also the issue of many Asian women being brought into the US in shady environments, human trafficking and the like (nail salons are a hotbed for this in the US, there was an article written about it a few years ago, I'll have to see if I can find it), and those women aren't likely to be victims of systemic racism because they aren't viewed as a threat. They're keeping silent to keep themselves safe, so they aren't ever going to draw attention to themselves unnecessarily.
Black people, on the other hand, were brought here by force, treated as subhuman, as chattel. And even after the US finally decided slavery was bad, they used other ways to keep them down, systemically, in ways that still exist down to this day.