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This is unacceptable, asian American issues are American issues, and all Americans deserve to be treated with respect. We can treat all Americans with respect and still be wary of threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party. – Andy Kim	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That can’t be a footnote; it can’t be an afterthought, i’m speaking specifically, directly to both GOP and Democratic politicians: Be mindful of the words that you use. Because the words you use can have real world impacts on the bodies of Asian American people on the streets. – Charles Jung	Found on CNN 1 year ago
She ’ll never be a ‘ normal VP, ’ my goodness, she’s the first African American VP. She’s the first Asian American VP. This is the first female VP, having to be normal. How can it be normal ? It’s never going to be normal. – South Carolina	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s definitely sort of reinvocation of kind of what people in Asian American studies would refer to as ‘Yellow Peril’ fearmongering, there are ways in which it resonates with what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II, where regardless of citizenship, regardless of nativity, they were racially categorized as enemy aliens. – Madeline Hsu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Even as we continue searching for answers about this attack, we know how deeply this attack has impacted the (Asian American Pacific Islander) community. Monterey Park is home to one of the largest AAPI communities in America, many of whom were celebrating the Lunar New Year along with loved ones and friends this weekend. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are confident that a majority of justices will uphold the U.S. Constitution and end the divisive and failing policy of using race in college admissions, because of such horrendous discrimination, many Asian-American applicants have to hide their racial identity to get admitted by America’s selective colleges. Unfortunately, in 21st century America, our children are still being treated as second-class citizens. – Mike Zhao	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think the fact I'm Asian American plays a pretty big factor into why I was rejected, the admissions officer had -- I don't know for sure -- but either a hard or soft quota on the number of incoming Asian American students into the Harvard Class of 2025. – Calvin Yang	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Everyone's looking for the same story, they don't really care what Some Asian American academic activists have to say. It's always this : Asian kid, high test scores, mad Some Asian American academic activists didn't get in, i'm interested in how affirmative action is portrayed, because it's so very dishonest. – Harrison Chen	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Asian American students are intent on cultivating this brand of prestige by any means. – Kenny Xu	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Michelle Steel employs the same disinformation that has led to an increase in violence against members of the Asian American community, while shamelessly smearing a member of the U.S. Naval Reserves, as a Taiwanese American who holds a Top Secret security clearance, Lt. Commander Jay Chen deeply understands the threat China poses to the United States. While Confucius Classrooms were widely accepted across the United States a dozen years ago, including by the State Department, the Chinese Communist Party’s evolution as an aggressor towards the United States and its democratic allies has further informed the U.S. State Department’s evaluation of these programs, and Lt. Commander Chen remains aligned with their analysis. – Lindsay Barnes	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Under the leadership of Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, the RNC has invested millions in authentically engaging with Asian Pacific Americans, the GOP’s message is resonating because Republicans are focused on the issues that matter to Asian American families like out-of-control inflation and violent crime that have particularly affected AAPI communities. – Nainoa Johsens	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's been really interesting seeing how I've kind of been pushed into the Asian American bookstores lane, i think that if I weren't Asian American, I may not have had to put Lucy Yu within that slot. – Lucy Yu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We don't know the motivations behind this specific targeting of an Asian American, but we do know how real the problem of anti-AAPI hate is -- not only in violent incidents like these but in the many more public harassment moments where racial and ethnic slurs are shouted at AAPIs just trying to go about their lives. – Manju Kulkarni	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The story of the term Asian American is ongoing. Its ending has yet to be written, as time goes on, I hope that we will continue to see Asian American continue to be used in new and different and novel ways as the needs of communities evolve and new constituencies arise. – Daryl Maeda	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The key is to understand that Asian American identity is a political stance, being Asian American is to take a stand against racism and a stand for solidarity among people of Asian ethnicity and with other racialized people in the United States and abroad. – Daryl Maeda	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Asian American community has grown accustomed to this hatred. – Assamad Nash	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Asian American victims of violence could be any one of us. Look at the age groups, it spans from young to old. It doesn't matter if you're Vicha Ratanapakdee or woman or anything, pretty much all of us are under attack, they were all victims. People just casually discarded them like they didn't mean anything, but to other people, they meant everything. – Jonathan Chang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's great to have a' holly jolly Christmas Past,' but that doesn't resonate with me as much as' Celebrate Me Home,' it wasn't until the pandemic, as a pregnant mother trapped with my toddler, as an Asian American in New York City that the theme' celebrate me home' took a different meaning. – Elizabeth Chan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I wanna offer a big congratulations to Michelle Wu, she is the first woman, the first person of color, and as an Asian American, the first to be elected mayor of Boston. I know this is no small feat. You know this is no small feat. – Essaibi George	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I want to offer a great big congratulations to Michelle Wu, she's the first woman and first Asian American elected to be mayor of Boston. – Essaibi George	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The reason why [ upwardly mobile Asian American ] people express those things is because... they feel like they're not being treated as if they were White, and they want to feel some form of solidarity with other groups who might be feeling this way, but the issue is that when you express such shallow, privileged politics and concerns, it's very difficult to build those pathways to solidarity. – Jay Caspian Kang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If the state of Oregon wants to target adversely impacted businesses, then fine, but help Hispanic businesses, Asian American businesses, Native American businesses and White businesses that have been adversely affected, not just Blacks', that’s unconstitutional. – Edward Blum	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This movie is very decidedly an Asian-American film and our community has largely been ignored because of the conflation with Southeast Asia. – Ron Han	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I didn't see our community in our textbooks, and it was hard to understand who our community was in relation to everyone else, for Asian American students it will be a chance to learn our history, the contributions our community has made. – Ram Villivalam	Found on CNN 2 years ago

This is unacceptable, asian American issues are American issues, and all Americans deserve to be treated with respect. We can treat all Americans with respect and still be wary of threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

– Andy Kim

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That can’t be a footnote; it can’t be an afterthought, i’m speaking specifically, directly to both GOP and Democratic politicians: Be mindful of the words that you use. Because the words you use can have real world impacts on the bodies of Asian American people on the streets.

– Charles Jung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She ’ll never be a ‘ normal VP, ’ my goodness, she’s the first African American VP. She’s the first Asian American VP. This is the first female VP, having to be normal. How can it be normal ? It’s never going to be normal.

– South Carolina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s definitely sort of reinvocation of kind of what people in Asian American studies would refer to as ‘Yellow Peril’ fearmongering, there are ways in which it resonates with what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II, where regardless of citizenship, regardless of nativity, they were racially categorized as enemy aliens.

– Madeline Hsu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even as we continue searching for answers about this attack, we know how deeply this attack has impacted the (Asian American Pacific Islander) community. Monterey Park is home to one of the largest AAPI communities in America, many of whom were celebrating the Lunar New Year along with loved ones and friends this weekend.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are confident that a majority of justices will uphold the U.S. Constitution and end the divisive and failing policy of using race in college admissions, because of such horrendous discrimination, many Asian-American applicants have to hide their racial identity to get admitted by America’s selective colleges. Unfortunately, in 21st century America, our children are still being treated as second-class citizens.

– Mike Zhao

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think the fact I'm Asian American plays a pretty big factor into why I was rejected, the admissions officer had -- I don't know for sure -- but either a hard or soft quota on the number of incoming Asian American students into the Harvard Class of 2025.

– Calvin Yang

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Everyone's looking for the same story, they don't really care what Some Asian American academic activists have to say. It's always this : Asian kid, high test scores, mad Some Asian American academic activists didn't get in, i'm interested in how affirmative action is portrayed, because it's so very dishonest.

– Harrison Chen

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Asian American students are intent on cultivating this brand of prestige by any means.

– Kenny Xu

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Michelle Steel employs the same disinformation that has led to an increase in violence against members of the Asian American community, while shamelessly smearing a member of the U.S. Naval Reserves, as a Taiwanese American who holds a Top Secret security clearance, Lt. Commander Jay Chen deeply understands the threat China poses to the United States. While Confucius Classrooms were widely accepted across the United States a dozen years ago, including by the State Department, the Chinese Communist Party’s evolution as an aggressor towards the United States and its democratic allies has further informed the U.S. State Department’s evaluation of these programs, and Lt. Commander Chen remains aligned with their analysis.

– Lindsay Barnes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Under the leadership of Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, the RNC has invested millions in authentically engaging with Asian Pacific Americans, the GOP’s message is resonating because Republicans are focused on the issues that matter to Asian American families like out-of-control inflation and violent crime that have particularly affected AAPI communities.

– Nainoa Johsens

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's been really interesting seeing how I've kind of been pushed into the Asian American bookstores lane, i think that if I weren't Asian American, I may not have had to put Lucy Yu within that slot.

– Lucy Yu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don't know the motivations behind this specific targeting of an Asian American, but we do know how real the problem of anti-AAPI hate is -- not only in violent incidents like these but in the many more public harassment moments where racial and ethnic slurs are shouted at AAPIs just trying to go about their lives.

– Manju Kulkarni

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The story of the term Asian American is ongoing. Its ending has yet to be written, as time goes on, I hope that we will continue to see Asian American continue to be used in new and different and novel ways as the needs of communities evolve and new constituencies arise.

– Daryl Maeda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The key is to understand that Asian American identity is a political stance, being Asian American is to take a stand against racism and a stand for solidarity among people of Asian ethnicity and with other racialized people in the United States and abroad.

– Daryl Maeda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Asian American community has grown accustomed to this hatred.

– Assamad Nash

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Asian American victims of violence could be any one of us. Look at the age groups, it spans from young to old. It doesn't matter if you're Vicha Ratanapakdee or woman or anything, pretty much all of us are under attack, they were all victims. People just casually discarded them like they didn't mean anything, but to other people, they meant everything.

– Jonathan Chang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's great to have a' holly jolly Christmas Past,' but that doesn't resonate with me as much as' Celebrate Me Home,' it wasn't until the pandemic, as a pregnant mother trapped with my toddler, as an Asian American in New York City that the theme' celebrate me home' took a different meaning.

– Elizabeth Chan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I wanna offer a big congratulations to Michelle Wu, she is the first woman, the first person of color, and as an Asian American, the first to be elected mayor of Boston. I know this is no small feat. You know this is no small feat.

– Essaibi George

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I want to offer a great big congratulations to Michelle Wu, she's the first woman and first Asian American elected to be mayor of Boston.

– Essaibi George

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The reason why [ upwardly mobile Asian American ] people express those things is because... they feel like they're not being treated as if they were White, and they want to feel some form of solidarity with other groups who might be feeling this way, but the issue is that when you express such shallow, privileged politics and concerns, it's very difficult to build those pathways to solidarity.

– Jay Caspian Kang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If the state of Oregon wants to target adversely impacted businesses, then fine, but help Hispanic businesses, Asian American businesses, Native American businesses and White businesses that have been adversely affected, not just Blacks', that’s unconstitutional.

– Edward Blum

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This movie is very decidedly an Asian-American film and our community has largely been ignored because of the conflation with Southeast Asia.

– Ron Han

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I didn't see our community in our textbooks, and it was hard to understand who our community was in relation to everyone else, for Asian American students it will be a chance to learn our history, the contributions our community has made.

– Ram Villivalam

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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