DeSantis signed a law requiring some AAPI studies in Florida, after crusading against diverse lesson plans. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders aren’t falling for his tricks. (via The ReidOut Blog)
Gregg Orton, national director of National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, a coalition of 38 AAPI organizations, said the history law is far from a “win” for the Asian American community, adding that “racial justice can’t be a zero-sum game for communities of color.”
“When you advance a bill that uplifts AAPI communities, but don’t want to acknowledge the fact that in the same state, there are real intentional efforts to invisiblize or erase Black history, or [critical race theory], you are on the wrong side of history,” Orton said. “With Florida, it’s hard to draw any other conclusion than they are actively trying to use the Asian American Pacific Islander community as a wedge here.
The DeSantis administration’s performative partiality toward Asian Americans in this case fits within a long history of white Americans’ attempting to use Asian Americans as a tool to enforce a racial hierarchy that places Black folks at the bottom and white folks at the top. Historically, white Americans
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