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.They cheered their potential role in the country that they love.
And now we see just that kind of moral leadership by another association, CACAGNY 紐約同源會, the Chinese American Citizens Alliance Greater, based in New York, which published a letter yesterday denouncing critical race theory as "a hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud." A member @queens_parents published the letter on Twitter, and it can be
found here online at their website
www.cacagny.org.
Comment: Perhaps those 230,777 persons who remain unregistered should validate their status to vote and participate in a standard voter process. Closing the loopholes and coming to a common understanding should be on both parties' agendas. Instead, this is one of many states hamstrung by party politics.