The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington is coming up this weekend. And you can bet Asian-Americans will be there.
But sometimes I wonder if Asian-Americans aren’t left out of the mix unfairly.
The other day I heard a former colleague, the talk host Joe Madison on Sirius XM, discuss the march, and as he read off the march participants in what I like to call the ‘grand litany of peoples of color,” guess what?
He left out Asian-Americans.
He’s no different from others who have seen that much-ballyhooed fact that Asian-Americans are at the top of the heap with the highest household incomes in America, $66,000, compared to the $49,800 of the U.S. in general.
We’ve got it made right?
Not so fast. The income numbers are one-dimensional and don’t tell the whole story. In Asian-American families, more people tend to live in a household, thereby pumping up the income number. Eight to 10 people working fast-food shifts adds up, but isn’t quite “making it.”
