Andrew Yang says being Asian American may explain lack of media coverage.
“As a young child in an all-white town, no matter how much I raised my hand in school or tried to make my voice heard, I was ignored so often I learned to use quietness to my advantage,” Lee wroteShe added: “There is no way to prove these omissions are related to Yang’s being Asian, but it’s impossible to miss the similarities with the micro aggressions people in the Asian American community experience daily.
Yang, an entrepreneur, suggested that the dominant reason for his media invisibility can be traced to his professional background, which doesn’t align with that of traditional presidential candidates, most of whom have served as elected officials. “I didn’t have a public profile before, and some media organizations will naturally favor more traditional candidates,” he said.
Yang, who announced in November that he would no longer appear on MSNBC, said his protest of the cable outlet is significant in part because of the underlying stereotypes attached to Asians. He argued that the act of running for president itself “belies this image of Asian Americans as passive or docile and that you can sort of ignore us and everything is going to be fine.”
He also said that with the withdrawal of another Asian American presidential candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., the overwhelmingly white composition of the field for the next Democratic debate, on Dec. 19, contributes to the national discourse around “this process and whether it’s been inclusive of people of different backgrounds.”
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