Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:16 UTC In February 2018, CACAGNY celebrated Chinese New Year in a parade in Flushing, N.Y. This past weekend, I spoke at an online conference of CAPA-Fairfax County, a local chapter of Chinese-American parent groups in the country, mobilizing to defend merit-based education in the United States. As some participants spoke in Chinese, I could make out some key phrases: "'moral courage," "public service," and "Cultural Revolution." When it came my turn to speak, I told the Chinese-American parents: you can save America. After surviving the Cultural Revolution, they uniquely recognize the dangers to an ideology like critical race theory, the race-based philosophy that dismantles core principles in our society, such as the idea of the American Dream, replacing the idea of equality with the disingenuous notion of "equity," and punishing Asian-American children for their advanced academics.