>> GREG, THANK YOU. >> SANDRA, AN INCONVENIENT MINORITY, THAT IS THE NAME OF A NEW BOOK BY OUR NEXT GAS AND HOW THE AUTHOR REFERS TO ASIAN AMERICANS AS AN ASIAN AMERICAN HIMSELF HE EXPLAINS HOW HE IS CONSIDERED TO BE AN INCONVENIENT MINORITY TO THE CRITICAL RACE THEORY NARRATIVE. ALSO THE PRESIDENT OF COLOR AS UNITED. CAN KENNY, GREAT TO SEE YOU TODAY. YOU SAID IN AN INTERVIEW THAT ASIAN AMERICANS PROVE THAT CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS NOT TRUE AND CANNOT BE TRUE. MAKE THAT CASE. >> CRITICAL RACE THEORY ASSERTS, AND I TALK ABOUT THIS IN MY BOOK AN INCONVENIENT MINORITY, BUT CRITICAL RACE THEORY ASSERTS THAT THE WORLD AND AMERICA IS IN A CASTE SYSTEM, BUT THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH THE ASIAN AMERICANS BECAUSE THE ASIAN AMERICANS ARE A MINORITY THAT HAVE BEEN DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN THIS COUNTRY AND YET THEY SUCCEED AND THEY ACHIEVE, AND THAT I THINK INCONVENIENCES THE CRITICAL RACE THEORY NARRATIVE TODAY AND THAT'S WHY I WROTE THE BOOK. >> YOU MAKE THE ARGUMENT IF AMERICA IS SYSTEMIC RACIST, HOW IS IT THAT ASIAN AMERICANS HAVE FLOURISHED AND IN MANY CASES OVERTAKEN WHITES IN TERMS OF LEVEL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. HOW IS IT THAT ASIAN AMERICANS FLOURISHED IN THIS COUNTRY? >> IT HAS TO DO WITH CULTURE. ASIAN AMERICANS STUDY TWICE AS MANY HOURS IS THE AVERAGE AMERICAN, TODAY WE TALK ABOUT THE TIGER MOTHER THAT WAS IN THE FAMOUS BOOK. BUT, IT'S NOT JUST TIGER MOTHER PARENTING, IT'S ALSO STRONG TWO-PARENT FAMILY STRUCTURES. IT'S A STRONG VALUE ON EDUCATION. IT'S THE LOVE FOR HARD WORK AND FOR MERITOCRACY AND THAT'S AT STAKE WITH CRITICAL RACE THEORY BECAUSE CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS BELIEVES THAT MERIT AS RACIST, SO, IF POLICIES LIKE HARVARD'S DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AIR ASIAN AMERICANS ARE ALLOWED, GUESS WHO LOSES OUT? IT'S A HARD-WORKING ASIAN AMERICANS THAT WORK SO HARD TO GET THEIR SPOT. >> WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY NEXT POINT BECAUSE WE'S NOW SEE THE EMERGENCE OF HARVARD AND OTHER PLACES OF ATTEMPTS TO LIMIT ASIAN AMERICAN ENROLLMENT IN SOME OF THESE PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. THAT WOULD APPEARED TO BE THE VERY DEFINITION OF SYSTEMIC RACISM, TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO CAN GET IN ON A MERIT BASED PROGRAM IN ORDER TO KEEP UP LEVELS OF ENROLLMENT OF OTHER PEOPLE. >> I ANALYZED 90,000 PAGES OF HARVARD ADMISSIONS DATA, AND STRETCHING BACK FOR 30 YEARS, ASIAN AMERICANS HAVE BEEN KEPT AT A CAP AT ADMISSIONS BETWEEN 18 AND 15 PERCENT OF THE STUDENT BODY. HARVARD'S OWN ESTIMATE SAID THAT IF ASIANS WERE NOT DISCRIMINATED AGAINST, IT WOULD BE 43 PERCENT OF THE STUDENT BODY. PEOPLE ARE SAYING WELL, IS THAT TOO MANY ASIANS? I SAY I'M INDIGNANT AT THAT CLAIM, I AM INDIGNANT THAT ASIANS ARE ALL THE SAME KIND OF PERSON THE SAME KIND OF FACE WITH NO PERSONALITY, WE HAVE TO LOOK PAST RACE IN THIS COUNTRY AND I WROTE THIS BOOK TO HOPEFULLY HE'LL AMERICA AND BRING AMERICANS TOGETHER IN SERVICE. >> IT SO I ASKED THE QUESTION YESTERDAY AND LET ME ASK YOU AS WELL. HAVE YOU PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED RACISM IN THIS COUNTRY AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO KEEP IT INTO PERSPECTIVE? >> WELL, I HAVE TO SAY, AMERICA HAS BEEN VERY GOOD TO ME. YES, I'VE EXPERIENCED RACISM, ESPECIALLY FROM THE IVY LEAGUES WHEN THEY JUDGE ASIAN AMERICANS AS BOTH PERSONALITIES, THAT'S WHAT THEY DO, BUT AMERICA HAS BEEN VERY GOOD TO ME AND AMERICA HAS BEEN GOOD TWO EVERY PERSON IN EVERY PIECE OF THIS COUNTRY. ONE OF THE THINGS IN MY BOOK I TALK ABOUT IS THIS GUY IS A VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY FROM VIETNAM AND HE THE INSTANT HE LANDED HERE, YOU KNOW, A POLICE OFFICER PICKED HIM UP AND SENT HIM HOME AND THAT WAS AN ACT OF CHARITY THAT HE COULD NOT FIND IN HIS HOME COUNTRY. THAT IS THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA AND I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT.
