In a blog of Mar. 22, I discussed Alison Collins and the decision of the San Fransisco School Board of which she was a member to base admission to its very prestigious Lowell High School on a lottery rather than merit. Collins, I did not mention, is a Black women and her diatribe against so-called Tiger Moms of Asian descent is, it turns out, representative of a fair amount of resentment among the B.L.M. crowd and the political Left in general for the inordinately high achievement rates, both academic and otherwise, of Asian Americans. Such outcomes, apparently, do not meet their “equity” criteria. Just around the corner, no doubt, legislation demanding all sporting events end in a tie!
Despite the Left’s antipathy for their high levels of success, Asian Americans, according to Dinesh D’Souza, have traditionally voted Democrat. But, he says, that may soon be changing. The Chinese American Citizens Alliance of N.Y. has just officially expressed its outrage with Critical Race Theory and its endorsement by our “educators” inasmuch as it minimizes the impact of culture, effort and achievement on socio-economic outcomes and speciously reduces the human dynamic to mere issues of race.
Lauren Chen, Canadian blogger of mixed Asian and Caucasian parentage, points out that Blacks, given that they constitute less than 20% of the U.S. population, are responsible for an inordinately high percentage of violent attacks upon Asians. The media, she notes, launches itself into paroxysms of outrage should a White person [i.e., “Supremacist”] commit such a crime but remains relatively silent when the offender is a person of color. Seemingly in agreement with D’Souza, she says lawsuits against affirmative action initiatives launched by the Left and clearly designed to keep schools from becoming “too Asian,” are on the increase. Even in demonstrably inferior inner city schools, she notes, Asian kids outperform their Black classmates. And the defining issue, she asserts in true “conservative” fashion, is not Racial oppression but Culture, the values and principles kids absorb from those around them.
Along with Black “conservatives” such as Candace Owens and Thomas Sowell, Chen attributes the failure to achieve of a significant portion of Black urban youth to the fact that they are raised in single parent households. To the charge that this condition is a result of continuing “systemic oppression,” she points out that the Black family was far more stable in 1950 when racism was a significantly greater force in American society than it is today. It doesn’t help, of course, that the “nuclear family” is devalued by simpletons such as Ibram X. Kendi, as just a White social construct.
Marcuse’s juvenile notion of “polymorphous sexuality,” the belief that we ought to be able to satisfy all our urges without restraint, has metastasized throughout Western cultures in this post-Woodstock era, but perhaps no more calamitously than in its effect on the values of Black American youth. You may be familiar with the ongoing squabble between Cardi B and Candace Owens, the latter having found the former’s graphically sexual performance on the recent Grammys utterly disgusting. As I have observed elsewhere, a number of Black “conservatives” have lamented the impact of Hip Hop on the mores of the young. It is such cultural influences, Lauren Chen avers, that leave so many young Black girls pregnant with the father of their child nowhere to be found, this in stark contrast to Asian communities where single mothers are about as common as sightings of Bigfoot.
Google Lauren Chen and you will be informed on page one that she promotes “racist and white nationalist talking points.” The dementia of Alison Collins, sadly, is the dominant orientation of this demented age. Because she promotes self-control and hard work as opposed to sexual promiscuity and an arrogant disdain for others, Chen has typically, predictably, been accused of being a mere pawn in the service of Whites.
And the sophisticated explanation on the Left for the inordinate success rates of Asians? Well, it turns out, it’s because they’re not quite as dark as Blacks. We White people apparently carry color swatches in our back pockets, holding them up to the face of each person of color we meet, concluding in some cases that, well, you’re just a little too Black for my taste, but in others, good lord you’re almost White, so come on in and join our party!