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Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang speaks to people as they take part in a rally against hate and racism at Columbus Park in Chinatown, on Sunday, March 21, 2021, in New York. | Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP Photo
National AAPI group to endorse Yang s mayoral campaign
NEW YORK Andrew Yang’s mayoral candidacy is getting a boost from a national organization targeting municipal races to boost Asian American and Pacific Islander involvement in politics.
The AAPI Victory Fund, a Washington, D.C.-based political action committee, is planning to endorse Yang at an event in Chinatown Wednesday afternoon. The group, whose backing was first reported by POLITICO,
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Since his arrival on the public scene, Andrew Yang has taken a great deal of flak from Asian American and Pacific Islander activists. On the presidential campaign trail his “Asian man who likes math” jokes were roundly criticized by sociologists and academics, while his Washington Post op-ed suggesting that Asian Americans should “show (their) American-ness” as a means of combating the rise in anti-Asian racism due to the coronavirus pandemic drew the ire of many Asian American voices in media and on twitter. More recently, City & State reported on a letter from “more than 400 Asian New Yorkers” primarily progressive activists opposing Yang’s mayoral run.
Fox News contributor Leo Terrell reacts to 1619 Project creators defense of the controversial theory.
Anti-Asian violence in New York right now is more than random street-corner sucker punches and terrifying subway shoves. It’s also the deliberate disassembly of meritocratic public education under the guise of ethnic equity a dagger to the heart of the fastest-growing and arguably most dynamic immigrant group in the city.
Not to diminish the thuggery, the most serious threat to Asian American New Yorkers is the Department of Education’s ill-disguised effort to eliminate merit test-based admission to the city’s eight highly selective high schools. The process is dominated by Asian kids to the virtual exclusion of Black and Hispanic students.
Asian woman, recent FIT graduate hit with hammer in Hell s Kitchen
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Police in Manhattan are looking for a woman who attacked an Asian woman with a hammer Sunday night near Times Square.
The 31-year-old recent FIT graduate was walking with a friend to the subway when she was attacked. The pair thought it would be safer for them to go together.
The female suspect struck the Asian woman in the head with the hammer, and the victim collapsed and dropped the bottle of wine she was carrying.
Her blood has been washed away, but that wine still stains the sidewalk.
Only 8 Black Students Are Admitted to Stuyvesant High School
Once again, tiny numbers of Black and Latino students received offers to attend New York City’s elite public high schools.
Only eight Black students received offers to Stuyvesant High School, considered one of New York City’s most competitive public schools, this year.Credit.Kevin Hagen for The New York Times
April 29, 2021
After a year in which the pandemic shined a harsh spotlight on the stark inequities in New York City’s school system, the city announced Thursday that, once again, only tiny numbers of Black and Latino students had been admitted into top public high schools. The numbers represent the latest signal that efforts to desegregate those schools while maintaining an admissions exam are failing.