A group of 14 AsAm orgs., led by Committee of 100, wrote to Director Wray requesting a meeting to clarify his statement. 80-20 EF told the group that without hinting the possible political repercussion to come from our community, if he didn't meet with us, the letter was politically too naive to be effective and refused to co-sign. 7 months later, Director Wray still has not even bothered to reply to that group. Handling politics requires political know-how.
4) May 24, 18 The U.S. House passed a law, which would have adversely impacted any Chinese Ams having held a temporary job in China, Hong Kong & Macau. This law was so ill-thought-out that it violated the US Constitution, besides smelling like the beginning of a modern version of the "Chinese Exclusion Act."
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a) Are we to adopt China's totalitarian whole-of-society approach to counter
China? Would it be consistent with American values? Is it ironic?
b) The whole-of-society approach will without doubt cause collateral
damage. Has Director Wray found a way to differentiate Chinese
Americans from Chinese nationals on the street, in classrooms, eating in
restaurants, traveling on airplanes? Might it even spill into our upward
mobility in jobs and our children's admission to schools and colleges?
Indeed, may one expect to differentiate Vietnamese-, Japanese-, or Cambodian-Americans from Chinese nationals? Do we remember that
Vincent Chin was killed because the murderers took him to be a Japanese?
When India becomes competitive economically with America, will there
be a whole-of-society approach to guard against Indian nationals, and
will Indian-Ams then share the fate of today's Chinese-Ams?
UNITE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND TOGETHER ADOPT POLITICALLY EFFECTIVE MEASURES. Unite whether we are Republicans or Democrats, East Asian-, South East Asian- or South Asian-Americans. We urgently need the strength of UNITY.
S. B. Woo
