Repost - in response to Eileen Huang
This post was first published in June 2020, at Moshang USA Wechat Public account , in response to Yale Student Eileen Huang's open letter to the Chinese American community . This is a repost. June 2nd, 2020 Dear Yale Student, You wrote a letter blaming your parents and relatives for being indifferent to the racism against the black community, accusing them for siding with White Supremacists, and you extended this accusation to the broader Chinese American Community. It is sad to see that even though you must be getting a good education at a very fine university, you are still so ill-informed and wrong. I don’t know about your family. But most first-generation Chinese Americans came to the US, not with capital and power, but with ideals and industry, to pursue liberty and happiness through hard work and self-reliance. They built their American dreams, contributed to society, and sent ABCs like you to good schools. Since the first-generation Chinese Americans rarely complain o...