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February 23, 2021

CACAGNY Denounces Critical Race Theory as Hateful Fraud

For top colleges, CRT uses the ruse of multiple-criteria holistic admissions, which allows Harvard to reject Asians with better academic and extra-curricular credentials than those of admitted applicants. Despite never having met the applicants, Harvard admissions officers somehow conclude that Asian applicants lack integrity and courage -- directly contradicting evaluations from interviewers who met the applicants, and from teachers who’ve known the applicants for months if not years. If smearing Asians this way isn’t hate speech, then what is? Call it diversity, equity and inclusion.

On the political front, President Trump issued an executive order to ban CRT indoctrination at the Federal level. President Biden rescinded that order upon taking office, so our best hopes now rest with the states, several of which have proposals to ban CRT indoctrination. New York legislators don’t lean that way, so we must vote to elect state legislators who represent our views on CRT!

CACAGNY 紐約同源會 Chinese American Citizens Alliance Greater New York www.cacagny.org

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Asian Americans Emerging as a Strong Voice Against Critical Race Theory | Opinion

HELEN RALEIGH , ENTREPRENEUR, WRITER AND SPEAKER ON 3/9/21 AT 6:00 AM EST

The Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York (CACAGNY) delivered the most vigorous rejection of CRT yet, calling it "a hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud." CACAGNY is one of the oldest chapters of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, which was founded in San Francisco in 1895 to respond to nationwide discrimination and violence against Chinese Americans. For more than a century, this organization has helped Asian Americans, especially Chinese Americans, to "quicken the spirit of American patriotism" and to "insure the legal rights of its members." CACAGNY speaks out against CRT now because Asian Americans have experienced its harm firsthand.

Because Asian Americans' economic achievement and educational attainment resist CRT narratives, irritated activists have tried to eject Asian Americans from the "people of color" category. Last November, the North Thurston public school district in Washington state released an "equity report" in which it grouped white and Asian American students together, while placing everyone else in the "students of color" category. The school district only apologized after an outcry from the community's Asian American families.

This year has seen a rising number of hate crimes against Asian Americans, especially in some of the most progressive cities in the United States. In San Francisco, an 84-year-old Thai immigrant died last month after being violently knocked to the ground during his morning stroll. In Oakland's Chinatown, 28-year-old Yahya Muslim aggressively shoved a 91-year-old Asian man to the pavement from behind and attacked two other Asian seniors. Also, in Oakland, in broad daylight, two young men attacked a 71-year-old Asian woman by "knocking her to the ground before yanking her purse so hard the strap breaks off."

In New York City, a young man used a box-cutter knife to slash Noel Quintana's face on a New York subway during the morning commute. Quintana, a 61-year-old Filipino immigrant, was rushed to the hospital, where he received more than 100 stitches.

CRT activists blame white nationalism for these hate crimes against Asian Americans. However, all perpetrators in these cases were non-Asian minorities. Asian Americans are concerned that CRT activists intentionally ignoring this inconvenient truth may result in the government misallocating resources and failing to protect Asian American communities from hate crimes.

Chinese parents organized a protest, demanding the school stop teaching racism to their children and start teaching actual math instead. One Chinese parent explained that CRT's emphasis on dividing society into oppressors and oppressed based on skin color reminded him of the bloody class struggle in Mao's Cultural Revolution.

CRT activists have been pushing for lowering admission standards—or the complete removal of difficult entrance exams—to top high schools because "too many Asians" are in good schools, and Asians are so "over-represented" that these schools are not "diverse." These were the arguments New York City mayor Bill de Blasio used to eliminate the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test. He wanted to replace it with a new admissions process based on race, so the student bodies of New York City's elite public high schools would mirror the city's overall population composition and not be dominated by Asian kids.

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Biden DOJ Approves Civil Rights Violations

Dismissal of the race discrimination lawsuit against Yale reveals priorities of Biden Administration

Techno Fog Feb 3

The DOJ lawsuit alleged an operation by Yale to discriminate by “race for at least 50 years.” To summarize, Yale instituted a multi-step process by which it would identify the race of applicants and give them rating scores. The applicants of the races that Yale didn’t want - potential students that were white or Asian - were penalized based on their race and for their race alone.

Critical Race Theory is not Anti-Asian

https://archive.ph/P63QX Mari Matsuda‏ @mari_matsuda

Remaking the colonized mind only happens in community and struggle. Been in it with Professor Crenshaw for decades, outlasting jobs, relationships, intellectual fads, and baseless attacks. Thank you @sandylocks

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Now this is a drop - the - mic response to lies about CRT from the one and only Mari Matsuda. Nothing like an OG to talk about what actually happened at its moment of inception. And it's continuation.

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Mari Matsuda: Critical Race Theory is not Anti-Asian

I understand yet another attack on Critical Race Theory (CRT) has surfaced, this time claiming CRT is anti-Asian. This kind of opportunism always trails along to disrupt progressive movements. It has been there from the start of CRT. Many built their careers attacking CRT, Trumpsters being the latest iteration on the Right. It is my practice to ignore critics who have not read the work and who are not interested in honest exchange. I will not read the latest entry in the annals of backlash, but I do want to say this for the record: Asian Americans are at the center of CRT analysis and have been from the start.

Contrary to the experience of being “the Asian in the room” that had to bring our issues to the fore, we were part of an intellectual community in which Black participants understood that racism against Asian Americans was part of the legacy of U.S. white supremacy.

I participated in the first published symposium of Critical Race Theory scholarship, with an article (Looking to the Bottom, Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review) on reparations for Japanese Americans and Native Hawaiians. I co-authored the first CRT book, Words That Wound, centering analysis of hate crimes against Asian Americans. I used CRT analysis to write the first law review article on accent discrimination (Voices of America, Yale Law Review) based on case studies of Filipino and Native Hawaiian litigants. In We Won’t Go Back, written with Charles Lawrence, I used CRT to analyze Asian American responses to affirmative action. I have applied CRT to develop a course on Asian Americans and the law, first at UCLA and then at Georgetown. This work was foundational Critical Race Theory, developed by unpacking anti-Asian racism through a historical and structural analysis of US racism. All of it came out of struggle: real issues and real needs in Asian American communities. That is what Critical Race Theory is, and Asians have been at the center of it.  If I start a citation list, it will go on for pages – many brilliant scholars using CRT to analyze anti-Asian racism. Suffice to say, Asian American thinkers were central in the development of CRT, and we were pushed and supported by our Black and Latinx colleagues.

Attacks on CRT are boring and repetitive and will always find an audience because white gatekeepers love to pretend they care about Asians by elevating Asians who will attack Black people. I have responded already – in We Will Not Be Used; in my book Where is Your Body; Beyond and Not Beyond Black and White, in a CRT anthology; in Planet Asian America, etc., etc. I am sending this short statement to you, since the record is not known to people who were born yesterday, and I wanted to state it plain.

Thank you for your outrage and your shining light. There is so much work to do to free all humans from harm and degradation.  Let’s get on with that work and leave the ignorant where they belong: alone, unread, and irrelevant.

In struggle, Mari Matsuda

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POLITICS IN, OF, AND THROUGH THE LEGAL ACADEMY: AKBAR INTERVIEWS MATSUDA, PART 1

AMNA AKBAR, MARI MATSUDA

Amna Akbar (@orangebegum) is Associate Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Mari Matsuda (@mari_matsuda) is Professor of Law at William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai'i.

PUBLISHED 01.18.21

We were in the law school world, which was dominated by liberal legal thought. The counter to that was Critical Legal Studies. And in between those poles, if you’re a person of color involved in liberation movements against white supremacy, there was this discomfort. Something’s missing in the conversation. Am I the only one who feels it? Am I crazy? Being backed into that corner and writing our way out of it is how CRT developed.

At the time, the Klan had just killed labor organizers in Greensboro, North Carolina. “Outlaw the Klan” made a lot of sense to me. Now, liberal legal ideology says you can’t do that because of free speech absolutism. And Critical Legal Studies is challenging any use of law because of indeterminacy and the danger of reifying legal systems as good. So if you think it’s important to outlaw the Klan and to challenge the legitimacy of the legal system, these competing sets of ideas are converging on you, with both saying you can’t do what people in struggle need you to do. There’s contradiction and pressure to develop new ideas. And this is where the CRT anti-subordination analysis of “assaultive speech” came from.

Same thing with the development of intersectionality, which would not have been possible without the women’s movement and particularly Black women feminists–the Combahee River Collective, for example – who pushed us to always include Black women in our analysis of race, gender, class. I don’t think you can read our work and not see that influence. We cite to it.

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POLITICS IN, OF, AND THROUGH THE LEGAL ACADEMY: AKBAR INTERVIEWS MATSUDA, PART 2

AMNA AKBAR, MARI MATSUDA

It’s a misreading of critical race theory to think that it was not a critique of colonialism and capitalism and it was not rooted in political economy. My intellectual genealogy and political genealogy is a straight line to DuBois, whom my mother knew personally. And DuBois was a Marxist who centered an analysis of the uses of white supremacy to build wealth and power and destroy Black bodies in the United States. And I don’t think I’m unique in that in CRT. You know, Charles Lawrence has in his office a letter from Dr. Dubois that was sent to him on the occasion of his birth telling him that he needed to fix the mess the world was in.

If you look at the movements we come from, there was an explicit understanding that war and economic exploitation and police violence were outcomes of a racist, colonialist, capitalist system. When I was growing up, I saw images of Hiroshima, of napalmed children, children who looked like me. I was taught that our tolerance of this was racist and also that it had its origins in the Cold War, in the ideology that was fueling American empire. These are things that I’ve known all my life, and it has driven the intersectionality of my work. All these things are connected: Our ability to see some human beings as not human, justifying harm to their bodies and stealing of their land and labor. This is a package deal and critical race theory has always said we have to fight the whole package. That’s what intersectionality means.