Is Asian girl racist??

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Japanese American author calls out Scholastic for asking her to cut 'racism' from kid's book


Maggie Tokuda-Hall, an Oakland author of Japanese descent, has called out Scholastic’s “deeply offensive” suggested revisions to her 2022 children’s book while offering to license it for their Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) narratives collection.

Tokuda-Hall was given an offer from Scholastic’s Educational Division to license her book “Love in the Library,” which is a love story set in a World War II Japanese American incarceration camp. The story is inspired by the story of her grandparents — Tama and George — who found love and joy amid war.

In the author’s note, Tokuda-Hall wrote, “[My grandparents’] improbable joy does not excuse virulent racism, nor does it minimize the pain, the trauma, and the deaths that resulted from it. But it is to situate it into the deeply American tradition of racism.”

However, Scholastic suggested that she remove the phrase “virulent racism,” the last sentence and a paragraph that reads:

As much as I would hope this would be a story of a distant past, it is not. It’s very much the story of America here and now. The racism that put my grandparents into Minidoka is the same hate that keeps children in cages on our border. It’s the myth of white supremacy that brought slavery to our past and allows the police to murder Black people in our present. It’s the same fear that brings Muslim bans. It's the same contempt that creates voter suppression, medical apartheid, and food deserts. The same cruelty that carved reservations out of stolen, sovereign land, that paved the Trail of Tears. Hate is not a virus; it is an American tradition.

Scholastic claimed that Tokuda-Hall’s statement about racism is “politically sensitive,” adding that the section “goes beyond what some teachers are willing to cover with the kids in their elementary classrooms,” according to NPR.

[Hung_Low]

Yes, when it comes down to it, she's a racist and race monger...

How about looking into her Japanese side of history? She'll see worst things happening...

White Supremacy did not bring slaves into the US. Some were captured by Whites but majority were sold by other African blacks. Black own slaves in the past in America.

Children were not in cages like wild animals as depicted by the Left/Dem... they were separated from the adults that might prey on them and thre were no facilities to accommodate the hundred of thousands streaming through the border. These same people don't see the problem now because a Dem is in the WH.

Voter ID is not voter suppression - We all need ID for almost every facet of our lives. You can't even open a bank acct without one.  Voting is a right, but it's a right for US citizens only.

Hate is not an American tradition - there are hates and racism in all countries, nationalities, ethnic group, skin color etc etc

She reminded me of that George Takei complaining that Trump had kids in cages like his ancestor were in cages during WW II. He forgot that it was a Dem President that gave the order to round up his ancestors and put them in concentration camp.