"Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> [http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/500045p-421631c.html]
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> Good Morning:
>
> I read with great consternation your column today regarding the NYU
> fracas about illegal immigration.
>
> Your deliberate singling out of a Chinese-American participant who
> happens to be Republican is disingenuous and downright cowardly.
>
> Though all Americans are immigrants (even Native-Americans, if you
Huh? I never immigrated. My father did not, neither did his father..I
could
keep going on and on, but ou get the picture
> want to stretch the word that far and back), and all immigrant groups
> have had their share of prejudice and oppression to varying degrees,
> you singled out Wesley Chan for your snide remarks, which could have
> been made to Andrew Blumberg, for example, or any of the other pro-
> Republican participants at that incident.
>
> Implicit in your attitude is the idea that Asian-Americans ought not
> to exhibit the wide range of political choices and beliefs other
> Americans are accorded.
>
> I find your remarks particularly disturbing in light of the "play"
> Ruben Navarrette Jr. over at CNN has given to similarly vague anti-
> Asian sentiments in his comments on another incident in California
> involving a local Asian-American Republican and his stance on the
> illegal immigration issue.
>
> Indeed, there are many hispanic Republicans who are rather more
> vociferous in their anti-illegal immigration opinions, but I have not
> found similar remarks from you or Mr. Navarrette of equal scorn toward
> them.
>
> Please take greater care to fully ruminate such matters in the future,
> before you commit your beliefs to ink, unless you truly wish to
> suggest that Asians and Asian-Americans ought to know their proper
> place -- in American history and American contem****ary politics.
>
> As an Asian-American, I do understand that place and that history, and
> precisely because of it, I choose to speak my mind like any American
> -- for I am not a guest in my own house.
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