To the Editor:
Re “Yale Is Accused of Racial Bias in Admissions” (front page, Aug. 14), about a Justice Department charge that Yale discriminates against Asian and white applicants:
I’m writing as an Asian-American alumnus of Yale College and the son of low-income immigrants and Cambodian genocide refugees. At the end of this article Swan Lee, one of the people accusing Yale of bias, is quoted as saying: “It feels great to finally have our existence be recognized by the government.”
The government has “recognized” our existence only when it’s politically expedient, such as when the president refers to the “Chinese virus” or “kung flu” to deflect blame. With just a few months until the election, this rushed and predictable announcement by the Justice Department is meant to sway Asian-American voters and drive a wedge in communities of color.
Just as when the anti-affirmative-action activist Edward Blum declared “I needed Asian plaintiffs” after his lawsuits (with a white plaintiff) challenging the University of Texas’s admissions policies failed, the government has decided that it needs Asian-Americans as a tool to further its goals of dismantling diversity in higher education and winning re-election.
But it has not recognized that some Asian-American subgroups, like Cambodian-Americans, have significantly higher poverty rates than the national average, and struggle to access higher education even at community colleges. Until the government takes action to help all Asian-Americans access higher education, then they have not truly recognized our existence.
Ryan Liu
New Haven, Conn.
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August 26, 2020 at 11:55PM
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