Asian Americans aren’t late to the diversity game. It’s just that most people still see race as a matter of Black and White—and tend to forget us.
But we were there, too.
These days, we’ve all come to recognize the rise of Latinos. And we acknowledge our indigenous people of color, the Native Americans.
But there are still many who talk about Asian Americans as if we are the new Whites.
Here’s a fact: Working hard, being good at math doesn’t equal White.
As we end the month-long commemoration of #Selma50, one takeaway is that Asian Americans have always been a part of the struggle of “non-Whites” in a White America.
If you don’t tend to see many Asians on the front lines at protests in historical photos, there was good reason.
