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No, they are leeches feeding of the hardwork of others [/quote]

Sorry, but the Asian-Americans are the only group that is upwardly mobile through their merit and hard work. Their hands hold neither the whip nor the begging bowl.   They are also away from the batshit drama of the White, Black and Hispanic crowd.  Being one of the first groups that was exploited in the railroad industry and then interned in WW2,  they are used to other races being jealous of their progress and coveting and looting the wealth that they create.

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A) The word "Asian" is doing a lot of work in this paragraph, and your argument would be stronger if you took the time to break out the different ways in which various "Asian" groups have been both persecuted/abused AND allowed to advance in a way that Black/Latinx folks were not.

B) There is a lot to unpack here, but I want to drill down on the "batshit drama of the ....Black crowd" here because others reading this post might not be aware of the role that the broader Civil Rights movement played in securing the vote, and linguistic access to the ballot, for Asian Americans. Quick - name one Asian American civil rights leader who worked  in solidarity with Black Americans to pass the VRA. That's right - Asian Americans were largely missing from the struggle, but still reaped the benefits.

C) Ditto the farm workers rights movement. Asian immigrants benefited, but the organizing, the struggle, the beatings, and the repression broadly fell on the Latinx organizers.

So step back with your  stereotypes about how Asians got ahead by hard work. [/quote]

I know facts bother you and truth hurts... [b]But facts are facts. [/b]

- dp[/quote]
And facts are...they are reaping the benefits of others' hardwork.

-dp[/quote]
How many of those who are applying to college right now worked hard for  civil rights?

Do you know why there were hardly any Asian Americans fighting for civil rights? Because the number of Asian Americans were minuscule in comparison to African Americans because of the quota placed on Asians for immigration. It wasn't until about the 1980s when more Asians started immigrating to the US.  You are saying that you expect a tiny minority to play a large part in the politics of civil rights?

Also, there weren't many Asian Americans in the south; they were mostly concentrated out west, and out west, like in CA, they fought for their civil rights.

Here's some educational reading material:

https://18millionrising.org/2013/08/we-cannot-walk-alone.html

https://www.aafe.org/who-we-are/our-history

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-chinese-workers-strike/

-dp[/quote]
LOL. In case you didn't realize it, you just admitted to the facts.
You came late to the house to find that the bed was already mad...you just lay on it and enjoying its comfort [/quote]
And you didn't realize that when they could, Asian Americans fought for [b]their civil rights [/b]where they lived.  Congratulations on your ignorance.[/quote]
LOL. That's what they did? That's the best they did?
Do you realize what you just wrote?
Congratulations on being stubborn and stupid[/quote]
Well, what they did seems like it worked fairly well since this group has the highest income and are the  most educated. Congratulations on not achieving much.

Asian Americans are stubborn, though. They won't let anything keep them down.[/quote]

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