> "Prisoner at War" wrote in message
> news:1172264205.637184.78050@t69g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
> > [http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/500045p-421631c.html]
> >
> >
> >
> > Good Morning:
> >
> > I read with great consternation your column today regarding the NYU
> > fracas about illegal immigration.
> >
> > Your deliberate singling out of a Chinese-American participant who
> > happens to be Republican is disingenuous and downright cowardly.
> >
> > Though all Americans are immigrants (even Native-Americans, if you
>
> Huh? I never immigrated. My father did not, neither did his father..I
> could
> keep going on and on, but ou get the picture
>
>
>
> > want to stretch the word that far and back), and all immigrant
> > groups
> > have had their share of prejudice and oppression to varying degrees,
> > you singled out Wesley Chan for your snide remarks, which could have
> > been made to Andrew Blumberg, for example, or any of the other pro-
> > Republican participants at that incident.
> >
> > Implicit in your attitude is the idea that Asian-Americans ought not
> > to exhibit the wide range of political choices and beliefs other
> > Americans are accorded.
> >
> > I find your remarks particularly disturbing in light of the "play"
> > Ruben Navarrette Jr. over at CNN has given to similarly vague anti-
> > Asian sentiments in his comments on another incident in California
> > involving a local Asian-American Republican and his stance on the
> > illegal immigration issue.
> >
> > Indeed, there are many hispanic Republicans who are rather more
> > vociferous in their anti-illegal immigration opinions, but I have
> > not
> > found similar remarks from you or Mr. Navarrette of equal scorn
> > toward
> > them.
> >
> > Please take greater care to fully ruminate such matters in the
> > future,
> > before you commit your beliefs to ink, unless you truly wish to
> > suggest that Asians and Asian-Americans ought to know their proper
> > place -- in American history and American contemporary politics.
> >
> > As an Asian-American, I do understand that place and that history,
> > and
> > precisely because of it, I choose to speak my mind like any American
> > -- for I am not a guest in my own house.
> >
Bullshit. You will keep going until you find your real roots. They
aren't in the USA, I will guarantee you that.
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