That the wrongs committed against your ancestors are incommensurate in magnitude with those committed against Black people in America. That despite all of that, you somehow feel that your oppression, because it does not include the original American sin-of slavery-that it will never add up to something equivalent. Violation of civil liberties including internment. Alien land laws and restrictive covenants. Legislation that was in effect for almost a century. That while your community’s experience in the United States has included racism on the personal and the institutional levels, including but not limited to: immigration quotas, actual federal legislation expressly excluding people who look like you from entering the country. That because on the one hand you, for obvious reasons, have not been and can never be fully assimilated into mainstream, i.e., White America-Īnd on the other hand neither do you feel fully justified in claiming solidarity with other historically and currently oppressed groups. Wu, is it true that you have an internalized sense of inferiority?
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