|NEWS| Asain Americans Thought It Was Only Going To Affect The Black Americans

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:05]Thank you very much, Mark. And I likewise appreciate being part of this chorus to sing in praise and in support of our democracy. And let's be clear, we we were dealt a blow yesterday.

[00:00:17]Certainly, the court is opening its doors to discriminate with impunity against uh voters of color, including Asian-Americans. I think it's also important in this moment to recognize that we are coming together as civil rights organizations. We are nonpartisan. What we are here to talk about is to ensure that all of our communities have the right to vote, have access to the ability to vote, and are fairly represented in the hallways of Congress and all the uh different legislatures and policymaking bodies.

[00:00:47]And I think that's what makes this court's reasoning so frustrating to all of us. The reasoning that political agendas and protecting incumbents are in themselves sufficient reasons to overcome the negative impact on minority communities. It flies in the face of the history of the 15th amendment and the voting rights act. These laws were designed to disrupt the status quo that discriminated against black and other marginalized communities. and the strength of our country is in its people and the dynamic manner in which our communities continue to develop and continue to grow. Any attempt to keep this country static is unamerican and will move this country backwards. So, let's be clear. This is not just about one community. It's about all of us and whether our democracy works for all of us. Certainly for Asian-Americans, we have benefited from the Voting Rights Act, which has protected us from being profiled, from being intimidated, or being denied our voice simply based on racial identity, accent, or limited English proficiency. For that reason, we are proud we have always stood beside our black, Latino, native, and other community brothers and sisters in this fight for voting rights. And we will continue to do that work now. We simply will not accept a roll back on decades of progress, centuries of progress towards this freedom that all of us believe in. So we will continue to fight in this in the courts, in state legislatores, and in urging Congress to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Amendment Act. And of course, we will make our voices known at the ballot box this fall and in future elections. Our democracy depends on it.

[00:02:27]I don't understand why everybody's so hurt about like being described as a model minority. For me, it's like, well, I want to be the best. I want to be the smartest. I want to be the toughest. The model minority thing, I've never thought about it cuz I'm too focused on trying to be a model American.

[00:02:42]>> But my entire future could depend on this moment.

[00:02:47]>> I was always aiming for the uh Castle on the Hill. I was always trying to go for Harvard. The college was part of a Supreme Court decision last year that brought a massive policy change and an incredible amount of uncertainty about the future of campus diversity.

[00:03:01]>> We do begin tonight with the landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action as we know it in college admissions, overturning a key tool used for more than 40 years to make campuses more diverse in this country.

[00:03:13]>> Over the past year, we've been with the first students to navigate a post-affirmative action world. The Harvard application has been especially tough because they kind of switched up their entire application.

[00:03:25]>> I feel like we're the guinea pigs of the whole situation.

[00:03:28]>> Admissions officers can no longer use race to judge students applications, but students can choose to share that information in their essays, possibly putting more pressure on that part of their application.

[00:03:40]>> You don't precisely know what the school is asking for you to write about. David says he decided to lean into his cultural identity in his personal statement.

[00:03:50]>> Were you anxious at all about how talking about your Chinese heritage may have hurt or helped you?

[00:03:56]>> It's just a huge part of my identity that I didn't really care. If 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.

[00:04:07]>> Third, that means I still love you. All right. Then more disappointing news over the next few months as he began to hear back from the over dozen schools that he applied to.

[00:04:17]>> No Yale weight list, no Princeton.

[00:04:20]>> And it was all like bad news or results I wouldn't have expected. Like reject weight list reject weight list.

[00:04:28]>> In March, he learned Harvard had rejected him.

[00:04:31]>> I feel like I also owe it to my parents to sort of make them proud. And I feel like by not getting into Harvard, I was sort of disappointing them, but more importantly, I was disappointing myself.

[00:04:42]>> Adam Mortara, who helped argue the case that struck down affirmative action on behalf of students for fair admissions, says Harvard had previously unfairly held Asian-American applicants to a higher standard.

[00:04:55]>> Our econometrics expert was able to show that in fact that admissions penalty existed. It was predominantly centered in the so-called personal rating where Asian applicants were given lower personal ratings than white applicants, African-American applicants, or Hispanic applicants.

[00:05:11]>> That so-called personal rating could include traits like humor, kindness, sensitivity, and leadership. While David does not believe race played a role in his rejection from Harvard, he says he thinks implicit bias is nearly impossible to erase. So, I think that the stereotypes are that Asian people are sort of reserved, uh, stick to themselves and just do math problems in their free time.

[00:05:35]>> Did you feel like you had to though purposefully go out of your way to show, hey, I'm not like the stereotypical Asian?

[00:05:41]>> I think I had to. I feel like I did kind of have to prove that I'm not the stereotypical Asian.

[00:05:49]>> Please be patient with me because there's so much here. I think the quick answer is that Asian-Americans are given white privilege, especially the Asian-Americans who fit the model minority stereotype. The quidd proquo for receiving that privilege is upholding white supremacy culture, which means being antilack.

[00:06:10]>> Such a low social status that you simply can't be seen in public with them and still expect to have any respect. um >> time to have him try to go get uh uh go to barber shop.

[00:06:22]>> Uhhuh.

[00:06:23]>> That's how the the American barber know he not the full blood Chinese. They say don't cut no air.

[00:06:31]>> They put out civil rights movement helped the Chinese to attain certain status among the white world more or less whereas we didn't have anything gained in the black world cuz they didn't have nothing for us to step into.

[00:06:46]Well, you know, we didn't march. If that's what you mean, why didn't we get out and march and Well, I I the I guess the best that's what best answer is that I'm a coward.

[00:06:59]See, my people, you know, they think that black shouldn't belong with Chinese people. My people want me to marry someone my own color so that uh, you know, we have our own color because of the blood.

[00:07:11]Shouldn't mix the blood up. I don't have anything against you. I don't have anything against any color and I was raised around black people. I'm not going to turn against black people because but my people told me not to. I have my own life to be considered color wasn't considered Chinese because we're only half Chinese. My father miss my mother.

[00:07:34]It was right after the slave was emancipated in the south.

[00:07:41]I don't think that um they will marry black my my children. Uh personally, I think that Chinese people tend to put me on the spot.

[00:08:00]Um this Chinese girl told me that she doesn't trust those she don't like black people. She said they don't go with her color cuz they think they'll steal things and they'll rob people kidnap and all that. That's what >> But I don't think like that. I I just think like any color people's my friend just as long as they get.

[00:08:26]>> So, we were able to see that video and I put it together the way that I did is because I've stated 99 different times that Asianameans view themselves as white or the closest thing [music] to whiteness. They fought so hard in order to be white. [music] One of the live streams I did or videos I did some years ago stated from a Chinese historian was the worst thing [music] that the Chinese people have done or that Asians have done is open their doors to the west meaning to the Europeans. Because the moment in time that they did that they lost their identity. They lost who it [music] is that they are. They almost in a sense lost their culture because they automatically tried to become somebody else because they deemed them to be higher than themselves. They deemed them to be the gods, right? And you can clearly see that within this conversation as these Asian these young Asian-Americans, right, dealing with the college students, depending on how far you got into the video, where the young college students stated how they felt about affirmative action and how they viewed it as a negative or a bad thing, and they just felt that, well, I [music] know that if I didn't make it into college, it just was because I didn't study hard enough, I just wasn't smart enough during the time, so I'm just going to run it back real quick and then reapply. No, buddy. You You lost because of your race. Specifically, the older Asian woman that was a part of the panel that was up there, she specifically stated that David Bloom was able to pull in Asians because they are affected by white supremacy, but again, they want to be as close to whiteness as possible, even if that means that they're going to be a tool for white supremacy. And that's exactly what David Bloom did. And he pulled them in there. so that they can be a shield and a body block so that that organization can claim that they're not racist because oh look, we have minorities here. We're obviously working with everybody. It's not just a white thing. It's an everybody thing. We're trying to balance the playing field for everybody. No, they're not. Like I said, they're slick. They're good at what it is that they do, but yeah, that's as far as it goes. But for the Asian-Americans, they don't realistically care because as that same panelist stated, she was like, "All of this is rooted in antilackness."

[00:10:48]And it is. Like I said, you saw the one Asian student, she wrote a a whole paper directly on affirmative action. I'm like, what? I'm like, you do do you you realize you got two strikes against you, right? Number one, you're you're Asian-American. Number two, you're a woman. Well, I should have just put number one, you're a woman. Then number two, you're Asian-American. But you know, those are both interchangeable.

[00:11:11]But as stated, oh, and number three, you're not white.

[00:11:15]So you you technically got three strikes directly against you and you decided to write a paper about affirmative action and how negative it is and all this other. Like I said, a lot of people are just going they're going to have to find out. They're going to have to find out.

[00:11:29]And I'm just sitting back chilling. That that's what that's what black Americans need to do. When when all of these when everything hits the fan, when all the cards uh fall where they may, all you need to do is just chill. All you need to do is just sit. All you need to do is just rest and just look at how everybody is trying to scrape and scramble, scramble and scrape all around because the sky is falling. Like I said, for us it's a Tuesday. [music] For them, it's their whole lives.

[00:11:56]This is really the first time in their lifetime that they've actually really been affected by something. And a lot of them don't know how to specifically deal with it. This is why I gave you guys a video a long time ago called a house divided because you got the two instances of Asian-Americans, one that wants to go liberal, the other one that wants to go conservative. And they both have opposing feelings. They're not even on the the exact same page, which is again crazy to me. Diabolical. And what do they normally say? A house divided cannot stand. And this is why the Asian community is currently, you know, where it resides at this moment in time when it deals with the United States. And this is also the exact same Asian community where you've had those out there in government tried to blame the pandemic specifically on them. Anytime they saw somebody Asian, they were just putting that directly on them. It didn't matter where they came from over there in Asia. It was automatically their fault. And I'm like, "Wow, that's crazy." And I'm like, "So, y'all not going to call that out?" "Oh, that's right. That's right. You're not going to call it out because it's white people doing it." But if it was black people doing it, oh, stop the stop the anti-Asian hate. Now everybody want to start speaking out. Now all of these actors want to want to pull up. Now everybody want to start speaking this during their acceptance speech. [music] Now people want to show up at the White House. K-pop.

[00:13:10]But when it deals with white folks doing stuff, y'all never specifically say it or call it out because y'all don't want to be viewed as the problem. You want to keep your head down no matter what is happening to. You're willing to sacrifice dignity, respect, and even your life just so that nothing more happens just so that you don't get viewed as [music] being problematic.

[00:13:35]Just so that within your mind, you don't have copycats because you decided to stand up for yourself. Like I said, that's the other issue, too. Y'all don't like the fact that black Americans speak up and stand up because number one, y'all jealous and y'all can never do it because you never have. Just to be real, ju just to be 100% real. You've never done it. You never have. Especially the way in which black Americans have done it. You can never you can never do it.

[00:14:02]And then number two, it's an issue because you guys view it as that we're going against your gods. And as the follower of your gods, you can't stand for that. So you're going to do anything possible in order to shut black Americans up. even if it means sacrificing your very life and future dignity and respect and maybe even your kids in the process and also some of your freedoms and your liberties just so that quote unquote black Americans are are put directly in their place and in some type of order so that white people can do whatever it is that they want to do and that you're able to get the trickle down effect and get a little happy meal and a little trinket and a little toy.

[00:14:39]This is currently why black Americans have the feelings that they do about Asian-Americans.

[00:14:45]Because you guys came directly into this country. You were treated the exact same way that black Americans were treated.

[00:14:51]I'm talking about like after slavery.

[00:14:54]You were treated the exact same way that black Americans were treated. And we welcomed you into our communities.

[00:15:02]And this is how you decide to thank us in the future.

[00:15:07]Let the cards fall [music] directly where they may. I am not going to feel sorry for the Asian community because of what it is [music] that is occurring and what it is that they caused because of their antilackness.

[00:15:20]But anyways, let me know what you guys think about this video and everything that I stated in the comment section below. And as [music] always, peace, love, and stay tuned for the next