White supremacy has been extremely successful in reinventing itself.
Its ability to make other minority groups less conscious of race issues and more compliant has been one of the great successes of the last decades.
The likes of Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley are fully paid up members of this group and have been willing pawns of white supremacy.
Owing to this dynamic, it came as no surprise that Asian-Americans were the means through which Affirmative Action was struck down by the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
The view was that places which were set aside for African-Americans made it impossible for Asians to study at Ivy League universities and the apex court which is currently in the grip of conservatives, agreed with this view, ending one of the great legislative successes of the last half-century.
Given the tension between the African and Asian American communities, it was only natural that the former would blame the latter for failing to grasp the degree to which their freedoms were won off the backs of their struggle.
And with good reason too.
Had the 14th amendment not been signed into law, we would not have had mass migration of Indians, South Koreans, Chinese and Latinos to the United States of America.
But thing about history is that people need to be reminded all of the time of how things were.
And Asians weren’t paying attention.
Just as the Latinos who were doing the salsa dance for Trump during the 2024 campaign season, Asians are learning the hard way that Conservatism wasn’t just about anti-Blackness, but about keeping all people of color as far away as possible from America.
This is the reason why ICE is working overtime to deport people to El-Salvador and Guatemala and it is also the reason why Asians can no longer come to America to study.
Seriously?
Yes seriously.
Project 2025 is all about the restoration of whiteness to the very forefront of American life and shutting everyone else out.
The folks who are currently rioting in LA are finding out the hard way and this can also be said for all those students from Asia.
Asian and Latin Americans are great pawns in white America’s quest for power and this is more apparent than ever with Trump’s aggressive policies.
So what happens next?
Four years of Trump is likely to bring more of the same, and by that I am referring to the inability of Harvard, Yale of Princeton to attract the brightest minds from the other parts of the world and its willingness to deport Latinos by the millions.
And I am not at all surprised that vast number of African-Americans are wholly unsympathetic to the travails of these immigrant communities as they feel quite betrayed by their extraordinary treachery in plumping for white supremacy.
And I must say that I am in total agreement with this view.
At times like these, we all have to pick sides and I am simply not one of those who will let anyone off the hook.
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