JOE BIDEN - PRO LA RAZA MEXICAN AND ANTI-ASIAN - REPORT: Anti-Asian Institutions Hold Sway in Biden White House

 

REPORT: Anti-Asian Institutions Hold Sway in Biden White House

Controversial staffing choices come amid rise in anti-Asian hate crimes, Democratic opposition to anti-discrimination measures

Andrew Stiles • May 6, 2021 12:50 pm

President Joe Biden has stocked his administration with individuals tied to prominent anti-Asian institutions, an exclusive Politico analysis has determined.

According to the analysis, more than 40 percent of senior and mid-level staffers in the Biden White House have degrees from Ivy League universities, institutions plagued by accusations of anti-Asian discrimination.

Nearly 20 percent of White House staffers, including Biden chief of staff Ron Klain, have degrees from Harvard. The elite university is embroiled in ongoing litigation over its controversial admissions practices, which the plaintiffs allege are unjustly biased against Asian-American applicants. Some analysts expect the lawsuit, Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard, will ultimately be settled by the Supreme Court.

About 15 percent of Biden aides have degrees from Yale, which could explain the administration's decision to drop the Trump-era Justice Department's civil rights lawsuit against the university for illegally discriminating against Asian Americans. Withdrawing the lawsuit was one of the first actions taken by the Biden administration. The decision came just weeks after Inauguration Day, amid a surge in anti-Asian hate crimes. A coalition of Asian-American groups has since urged the Biden administration to reinstate the lawsuit.

In spite of the troubling rise in violent attacks against Asian Americans, the Democratic Party has rejected Republican-led efforts to penalize anti-Asian discrimination. Last month, the Senate narrowly rejected a GOP amendment that would have denied federal funding to universities that discriminate against Asian Americans. Not a single Democrat voted in favor of the anti-racist bill.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party's ideological allies at media outlets such as MSNBC have been criticized for their biased coverage of Asian-American candidate Andrew Yang, the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race. MSNBC's coverage of Yang's candidacy in the 2020 Democratic primary was especially bad. Yang blasted the Democratic-aligned network for "trying to suppress and minimize my campaign because there are certain other candidates that they might favor."

It remains unclear why the Democratic Party does not want Asian Americans to succeed.

Asian American Father Walking With 1-Year-Old Son in Stroller Repeatedly Punched in SF

Kimberly Nguyen

Wed, May 5, 2021, 3:52 PM

An Asian American father was waiting to cross the street with his 1-year-old child when a man approached and hit him from behind in San Francisco on Friday.

What happened: Bruce, 36, was outside of Gus’s Community Market by the intersection of 4th and Channel streets around 2 p.m. in Mission Bay when he was punched from behind and knocked to the ground.

• In a surveillance video, the male suspect, identified as Sidney Hammond, can be seen pummeling Bruce more than a dozen times as the stroller carrying his child rolled away.

• Hammond continued to try to hit Bruce as police officers patrolling the area arrested him.

• Bruce told ABC7’s Dion Lim his “sense of security was shattered.”

• Authorities reported the child was unhurt and Bruce was treated for “non-life-threatening injuries.”

More details: Hammond faces charges of "assault, false imprisonment and child endangerment," reported CBS SF.

• The 26-year-old was arrested one month prior at the same location for a separate assault and theft after allegedly stealing from Gus’s Community Market, shoving a man onto the MUNI train tracks and hurt someone’s knee, Lim shared on Twitter.

• Authorities said the attack appeared to be "random and likely not motivated by anti-Asian racism,” reported Newsweek.

• The incident being racially motivated did cross Bruce’s mind, especially with the rise of anti-Asian violence over the past year and how random his attack was, he told Lim.