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[MAY]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/the-real-reason-americans-stopped-spitting-on-asian-americans-and-started-praising-them/?utm_term=.e6c7d3878671

This is a very interesting read about how Whites used race relations with Asians to their benefit to try and keep Black people at a disadvantage.

[SouravMay]

It all comes down to the history of slavery.

[MAY]

By the 1960s, anxieties about the civil right movement caused white Americans to further invest in positive portrayals of Asian Americans. The image of the hard-working Asian became an extremely convenient way to deny the demands of African Americans. As Wu describes in her book, both liberal and conservative politicians pumped up the image of Asian Americans as a way to shift the blame for black poverty. If Asians could find success within the system, politicians asked, why couldn?t African Americans?

I just...

[MAY]

The work of the African American freedom movements had made white liberals and white conservatives very uncomfortable. Liberals were questioning whether integration could solve some the deeper problems of economic inequality. And by the late 1960s, conservatives were calling for increased law and order.

Across the political spectrum, people looked to Asian Americans ? in this case, Japanese and Chinese Americans ? as an example of a solution, as a template for other minority groups to follow: ?Look how they ended up! They?re doing just fine. And they did it all without political protests.?

That isn?t really true, by the way. Asian Americans did get political, but sometimes their efforts didn?t get seen or recognized.

These stereotypes about Asian Americans being patriotic, having an orderly family, not having delinquency or crime ? they became seen as the opposite of what ?blackness? represented to many Americans at the time.

She is spilling TEA

[pettypatty]

Asians are a money machine that's why.
America relies on China in a lot of different areas
And plus their race has strong group economics, they don't need whites