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1/ If you think Andrew Yang is too rich to run, not accountable to movements, or bad on issues that matter, JUST SAY THAT.
Using "Andrew Yang is not a New Yorker" to express these things IS coded language, whether you mean it or not, because of our history.
Using "Andrew Yang is not a New Yorker" to express these things IS coded language, whether you mean it or not, because of our history.
2/ He's lived here for 25 years. He's quite literally a New Yorker. Other candidates who weren't born and raised in this city are ALSO New Yorkers.
Singling Yang out is connected to The Page Act, Chinese Exclusion, Japanese internment, etc.
Singling Yang out is connected to The Page Act, Chinese Exclusion, Japanese internment, etc.
3/ Our centuries-old fear of the “Yellow Peril” sees Asian-Americans as “perpetual foreigners” who take away our jobs (including elected jobs such as mayor!), even if they’ve long lived here.
Forcing someone to prove they belong here over and over IS xenophobia.
Forcing someone to prove they belong here over and over IS xenophobia.
4/ Anyways, both good & bad electeds who are NYC natives and who aren't. Sorry, but accountability isn't as easy picking someone who went to your school. There are orgs/ppl dedicated FULL-TIME to elected accountability & we're still trying to figure it out.
