Racism is despicable and must be fought. Not a controversial statement, right? But what if racism rebranded itself as … “anti-racism”? The consequences of such “anti-racism” are what the Asian American community is currently facing, and no place has been more of a flashpoint for that than Northern Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
This prestigious public school has been at the center of a long battle between the Virginia Department of Education’s anti-racism directives propagated by former Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s administration and the Asian American parents who brought suit because their kids were eventually denied admission after so many of them were getting in and other minorities with lower qualifications weren’t.
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court passing on hearing their case last year, the Trump administration’s Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the allegations.
The Daily Signal sat down with Helen Raleigh, a woman who escaped Communist China and came to America as a college student. Her most recent book is “Not Outsiders,” and she talked to us about the quiet racial prejudices the Asian American community faces today. Listen to the conversation: