Asian Americans Now Complain to Black Americans as Reality Sets In

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]A school does not want to admit me because I'm Asian American, then there's not much I can do about that cuz it's a part of me that I just can't get rid of.

[00:00:07]Some of y'all just learned the hard way.

[00:00:09]You were not the competition. A lot of people really thought getting rid of affirmative action was going to give them more opportunities. If you move more black people out of the way, suddenly you're the next person in line.

[00:00:21]No, that's not how this works. What you failed to understand is this, black Americans weren't just in the race. We were the ones fighting.

[00:00:29]So, first of all, it is some Asian Americans. It is a minority, so please do not fall for this divide and conquer tactic because that is exactly what Edward Blum and the Supreme Court want you to do. Edward Blum wanted Asian Americans to blame black people for their not getting into college, and Edward Blum and the Supreme Court want black people to blame Asian Americans for affirmative action being banned.

[00:00:50]But, [snorts] 70% of Asian Americans support affirmative action, and if you break it down by ethnicity, among Japanese Americans, I think that the approval is as high as 86%. I think that Chinese Americans have the lowest approval rating, and even then it is 56%. There is no Asian ethnicity where a majority disapprove of affirmative action. And in the most recent case, there were more Asian Americans involved in the lawsuit in supporting Harvard and in filing amicus briefs in support of affirmative action than there were Asian American plaintiffs who sued Harvard.

[00:01:22]Now, to answer your question, the reason why some Asian Americans think that this decision is a win for them is because they fell for the divide and conquer tactics, and they aligned with whiteness, and they blamed black people for their not getting into college.

[00:01:36]Something I'll touch upon as long as we do understand that a lot of Asian Americans like myself are aware of this, and it doesn't change our support of affirmative action, research has indicated that if college admissions was based purely on GPA and standardized test score, then enrollment among Asian Americans would increase slightly, but we're talking about tenths of a percent.

[00:01:53]And [snorts] it's also indicated that the 12% or so of Asian Americans enrolled in college who did benefit from affirmative action under such a system would likely lose their seats and they tend to be Asian Americans who come from lower income families.

[00:02:07]On a purely personal note, when I was applying to the University of Michigan in the 1990s, it was generally thought that being Asian American is a disadvantage in college admissions. And what my dad told me is that since I am a first generation born Asian American, I have a lot of privilege. I was born and raised in a country that was stolen from Native Americans, that was built off the free labor of enslaved black people.

[00:02:28]Furthermore, I'm not the descendant of a railroad Chinese, I am not the descendant of a Japanese American who was interned during World War II. And at that time we thought that I was not the descendant of anybody who was negatively impacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act.

[00:02:40]It turns out that wasn't true.

[00:02:42]What my dad said was if the University of Michigan is going to remove a quarter point from your application because you're Asian American and that is necessary in order to redress historical harm done to black people and Native Americans, then so be it. And what the stereotypical Asian hard work ethic meant in my household is you just need to work that much harder to make up for that quarter point. And what you don't do is you do not blame the people who have historically been harmed. What you do is you work hard to change the system. So, [snorts and clears throat] I am disappointed in my fellow Asian Americans who don't seem to understand that.

[00:03:16]Well, well, well, well, well.

[00:03:21]>> [clears throat] >> You did all that yapping for what?

[00:03:24]There was a reason why affirmative action was put into place, but you said that affirmative action discriminates against Asian Americans and the very first class at Yale University after the Supreme Court said that affirmative action was unconstitutional, we we saw a decrease in the Asian American population.

[00:03:44]But you know which group saw an increase?

[00:03:48]You got it. The white population increased to 46% and the Asian population decreased from 30% to 24% while the black population stayed the same. Same with Hispanics, although there was a slight increase.

[00:04:06]Let this be yet another lesson. Don't go against your own interest. You were willing to be the face and the lap dog for white conservatives who were against affirmative action and in the end in this case, it backfired on your racial group, not against black people and Hispanics who you thought were benefiting unfairly and disproportionately.

[00:04:29]You threw a sledgehammer and a sledgehammer came right back and hit you in the face. Before we get into the video, my name is Gloria.

[00:04:38]You're all welcome back to the channel.

[00:04:41]Quick credits to the original creators of the clips used in this commentary.

[00:04:46]This video is simply my reaction and opinion on the discussion.

[00:04:51]Seeing some of the reactions online is honestly interesting.

[00:04:55]Because many people really thought things would go completely different.

[00:05:01]Because for years, people kept saying affirmative action only benefited black Americans and a lot of people supported moving it thinking it would open more doors for everybody else. But now, some of the same people who supported getting rid of it are starting to realize the situation is not exactly turning out the same way they expected. And that's the part black Americans kept trying to explain.

[00:05:34]A lot of black Americans were saying this conversation was always bigger than just blaming black people for opportunities of competition. But instead of listening, many people acted like removing affirmative action was going to magically fix everything. But, now, people are starting to see the system is still difficult, still competitive, and still unequal in many ways. Please, let's watch more of the clips of Black Americans' reactions to this. I'll be right back with my reactions. The school does not want to admit me because I'm Asian-American, then there's not much I can do about that cuz it's a part of me that I just can't get rid of. Some of y'all just learned the hard way. You were not the competition. A lot of people really thought getting rid of affirmative action was going to give them more opportunities. If you move more black people out of the way, suddenly you're the next person in line. No, that's not how this works. What you failed to understand is this. Black Americans weren't just in the race. We were the ones fighting to make sure that the race was fair in the first place. That wasn't competition. That was infrastructure.

[00:06:46]It's like seeing somebody hold a ladder steady, and you kick it thinking you're about to climb faster. Now the ladder's gone, and everybody's on the ground. And here's the part that really stings. You thought removing black people would make all this easier. All it did was show you they weren't holding you back.

[00:07:06]They just weren't planning to let you in, either. So, I want to ask y'all, do you think this was a miscalculation by people who wanted to get rid of this?

[00:07:14]And now they're waking up to realizing who was actually on their side? Cuz I know I don't think folks are waking up at all. And if anything, they're still confused about how come I didn't get in?

[00:07:26]I'm not going to lie. I'm still pissed about those Asian-Americans who helped that white man get rid of affirmative action. And it didn't even benefit us in the end. Hmm.

[00:07:35]Unsurprisingly. So, I need Asian-Americans to remember that none of this was ever built for us. The lawsuit that ended affirmative action was not started by Asian Americans. It was led by Edward Blum, a white conservative activist who has spent years just trying to dismantle civil rights protections cuz that's the type of person he is. He created Students for Fair Admissions and specifically recruited Asian American plaintiffs to frame this narrative as Harvard discriminates against Asians, but this was never about helping us. It was about using us as always. About using us to attack policies designed to create equity and level the playing field.

[00:08:13]Now, you have probably seen a lot of people saying that affirmative action lowers the bar. Oh, DEI also lowers the bar. They're not the same thing, but people think they are. That is so misleading and it's rooted in anti-blackness. Also, are we noticing the percentage of white people admitted and the overwhelmingly white legacy admissions at these institutions is something that specifically never gets touched in this conversation. Why is that? Is it Is it clicking? So, here's some facts from the case. So, Asian students did have the highest GPAs and test scores, but got rated lower on personal qualities by the admissions officers. And for identical profiles, Asian applicants had a 25% chance of getting in while black applicants had a 95% chance. And that stat gets weaponized to imply that black students are less qualified, but affirmative action isn't lowering the standard. It's about addressing systemic inequities caused by racist policies like housing discrimination, segregated schools, and the wealth gap, etc. This is classic model minority propaganda portraying Asian Americans as proof that racism is over to justify attacking other communities. That is exactly why they ended the immigration ban against Asians in the US and then only allowed in high-achieving Asians from Asia, scientists, doctors, etc. to come to the US so that they could use us to prove that they weren't racist to black people during the Cold War.

[00:09:32]I need you to pay attention to historical context about how this has all gone down. History is rhyming. It's the same thing.

[00:09:39]Here's the thing. I want to say that 69% of Asian Americans actually support affirmative action and advocacy groups like Chinese for affirmative action and C Rack fought to keep it. The loudest anti-affirmative action voices do not represent all of the Asian community.

[00:09:54]They do represent a narrative designed to divide us though. And for Asian Americans, especially young Asian Americans, I need you to hear me. Even though many in our community do not align with the model minority nonsense, I can attest to that being true. The ones who do are often the ones that get the most visibility because playing that role perpetuates white supremacy. And at the end of the day, we have to be real about all of this. None of this was ever for us anyways. This country literally had laws banning us from being here. We have always been seen as outsiders. We have only ever been used as a tool, a wedge to uphold white supremacy and then they will scapegoat us the second they need to. That has always happened in times of sickness, war, and a loss of jobs. And it is on us to disrupt that role, to stop aligning with anti-blackness, and to refuse to be used as puppets for systems that were never built for us anyway. It is imperative that we, as Asian Americans, learn our history, learn how we've been used, understand it, and choose solidarity because if we're not fighting these systems together, we are always on the chopping block. Remember how they treated us during COVID.

[00:11:03]Just Until next time, y'all. So, article came out that said that since affirmative action has been overturned in the case of Yale, Ivy League school Yale, the attendance rates for incoming Asian Americans has decreased while the attendance rate for incoming black students has remained the same as it was during affirmative action. This is crazy because Asian Americans were the ones who were bringing about lawsuits to get affirmative action overturned. If you were on Twitter in 2022, 2023, this was a lot of discord. A lot of Asian Americans have filed lawsuits saying that they against schools and that they did not get in because of their race because their spot was given to a black student because of affirmative action.

[00:11:40]Not even [clears throat] realizing that you too as a minority benefit from affirmative action, but in their head, they're European American, okay? They think that they're not a minority.

[00:11:47]But now we see with the first I'm sure more stats are going to come out, but in the case of Yale at at the very least, it shows that while y'all were discrediting black students for getting into schools, you know, from their hard work, not because of affirmative action, now we're really the ones who are needing affirmative action.

[00:12:02]Okay, y'all probably took some spots from black kids because these schools were trying to make quotas to, you know, get Challen.

[00:12:07]But we know in the case of Yale, black students earned their spot. And I I I love this for them. I love this for them cuz y'all wanted affirmative action to be, you know, overturned so bad.

[00:12:17]And now look.

[00:12:19]Now look at the numbers. It's just so funny to me like how these people come into black communities and want our black dollars, and want to profit off of us, but this is really how they feel about us.

[00:12:27]Y'all can look up all the lawsuits.

[00:12:29]Y'all can look up all the lawsuits that, you know, Asian Americans were bringing it against colleges, discrediting hard-working black students who worked hard for their spot, who worked hard for their degrees.

[00:12:38]Now look. On Instagram, The New York Times promoted this piece about how Asian Americans feel like they have to hide their Asianness in order to get into elite colleges. This stems from a lawsuit alleging that Harvard discriminated against Asians. The lawsuit was funded by a white conservative. As an Asian Latina, I want to know, what is the goal here? Like if you get what you want and race isn't considered in admissions, what makes you think places like Harvard are going to pick you over white people?

[00:13:02]Over legacies, over athletics. So many of us are taught that this model minority myth benefits us. Like if we work hard, keep our head down, just make good grades, be the top of everything, like of course we're going to get the best things in society, including the best schools. Research shows affirmative action benefits white women the most. So what makes you think getting rid of it will benefit us Asians? I was a straight-A high school student, top of my class, played violin, was treasurer, president of like three different clubs, all the typical Asian stuff, and Harvard still rejected my ass. But, I went to another college and moved on with life.

[00:13:32]You think white politicians and CEOs and everyone else in power got there because they made the best grades? Be for real.

[00:13:39]I think what makes this conversation so interesting is how quickly people want to point fingers at black Americans in the first place.

[00:13:49]For years, affirmative action became this huge talking point.

[00:13:54]And many people kept framing it as if black Americans were the main reason others were struggling to get opportunities, especially when it came to college admissions.

[00:14:09]People acted like if affirmative action disappeared, everything suddenly become fair and balanced overnight. But, now that things have changed, many people are realizing that the reality is much more complicated than what they thought.

[00:14:26]Because the system was never as simple as just blaming black Americans. And honestly, that's something many black Americans have been saying for a very long time.

[00:14:38]A lot of people ignored those warnings because it was easier to believe that removing certain protections or policy would somehow solve bigger problems inside the system. But, now more people are starting to understand that competition, inequality, access, privilege, and opportunity have always existed beyond just one policy. Because many black Americans feel frustrated watching people suddenly realize things they've been talking about for years.

[00:15:14]Black Americans were told they were complaining too much whenever they talk about inequality or unfair these But, now, more people are experiencing disappointment themselves and starting to see that the system was never as equal as they believed. Sometimes, people support policies thinking it will only negatively affect another group without realizing those same decisions can eventually affect everybody. And that's why so many people online are saying, "You thought this would only affect Black Americans." But, now, you are seeing the consequences, too. Thank you guys so much for watching. I really want to hear your thoughts on this conversation because I know many people have strong opinions about affirmative actions and what's happening online.

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