Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Is Harvard Racist?

 Is Harvard racist?   Watch this 5'30" video by clicking 
Don't forget to turn up the volume by clicking on the microphone icon at the lower left corner of the screen.   Spread it please.

      You'll be the judge.

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S. B. Woo


President and a volunteer for the past 20 years
80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization,
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89)
 
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Monday, February 25, 2019

2 Role Models - Sec. Chu & Prof. Chang

Will those who've "made it" step up?  They did!


Extra!  To get a succinct view of our case against Harvard, click on
if you like it.                    :-)  

                                Under Attack, We Grow stronger

(1) UNDER ATTACK:

     A Hoover Institute Report (HIR),entitled " Chinese Influence, American Interests:  Promoting Constructive Vigilance",  greatly threatened the security and rights of Chinese Ams since Nov. last year.  It explicitly named tens of Chinese Am. organizations for being possibly under the influence of the Chinese government, without any concrete direct evidence.  It even raised the specter that these orgs may harm the interests of the U.S.A.  

     The "5th Column" list included the largest Ch-Am newspaper, The World Journaland the perpetually timid C-100, which claims many wealthy business persons as its members.  HIR's treatment of C-100 was extremely high-handed.  See Footnote 20 on HIR's page 38.

(2) WE REELED UNDER ATTACK

      Our response?   C-100 played dead although 3 months have passed since the public accusation against it.  The World Journal wrote a letter to protest, but was ignored & it acquiesced.  No other orgs., though publicly attacked, uttered a word.

(3) 80-20 EF LED A COUNTER ATTACK:

     Seeing how the HIR is hurting our community, 80-20 EF sprang into action 8 weeks AFTER the publication of HIR.  We led a counter attack to protect the AsAm community's rights.

     After a 5 weeks struggle with authors of the HIR, EF has published the following view.  These views have NOT been opposed by neither the authors of the HIR nor any officials in the U.S.

(a) AsAms have as much right as Jewish-Ams and Irish-Ams to care for folks in their respective old countries,

(b) The above rights are especially important for "naturalized citizens" - a 
      human need well-understood by America's forefathers that human 
      beings are not machines who can turn loyalty on and off at will.  They 
      therefore ordained that naturalized citizens may NOT be President or 
      Vice President of our nation,

(c) We will not be cowed by "vigilantes." Any intimidation attempt, if there was one, has been completely turned back and negated!

(d) After 2 open-to-public panel discussions held at Stanford Univ., where 6 
      of the 8  panelists were principal authors of the HIR,  many of the 
      panelist/authors, including Larry Diamond, stressed that the HIR was a 
      "work in progress".  They stressed that revisions would be made to try to 
      address the strong concerns raised by the Chinese Am community, 
      including the need to be accurate and try to prevent stigmatizing. 

    For details of the step-by-step progress in this struggle, click on 123456789, and 10.   

(4) ROLE MODELS WHO WON IT FOR US - 
                             Sec.  Steven Chu and Prof. Gordon H. Chang

     A few months ago, EF published an e-newsletter entitled 'Will AsAms who've "made it" step up?'  Some of our best and brightest have apparently responded positively.

     Chang, Oliver H. Palm Prof. in the Humanities & of History, Stanford Univ., was 1 of the 4 panelists in the first panel discussion.  He was most
effective in being openly critical of the tone and accuracy of the report.  Larry Diamond, one of the 2 co-chairs of the HIR, the only person presented in both panel discussions, responded to Chang's critique by saying "... Gordon, I've taken very careful notes ... we don't want to say things that are wrong by assertion or implication, so, we want to address that.  I appreciate your candor here."

     Chang is also the author of a superb book entitled "Fateful Ties: A History of America's Preoccupation with China." It's one of the few books that I read and enjoyed last year. The book was written with a tender-loving-care for both the U.S. and China that is possible only for a scholar who has absorbed the best of the Chinese and American cultures.

     Secretary Chu made a surprise appearance at the first panel discussion. He stood up and stated that the policy that the HI Report was advocating, even assuming that it is accurate, would drive out most of the top talent in science and technology who are of Chinese descent.   So the HI Report was not balanced, since it didn't mention the "opportunity cost" to our nation. To which Mr. Diamond replied that what " Secretary Chu outlined is very justifiably (something we are) worried about."
         
        When we have THESE ROLE MODELS IN OUR MIDST, we grow 
stronger under attack.

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S. B. Woo


President and a volunteer for the past 20 years
80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization,
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89)
 
To know more about 80-20, view these videos :
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Progress on Harvard Lawsuit/ Hoover Inst. Report

Progress On both fronts

WeChat account ID is: 8020ef.  Please scan our QR code, 
shown below, & on 80-20 EF's WeChat site. For a Chinese 
version of this e-newsletter, click on https://goo.gl/6GsJWe


HELP correct the Inaccuracy in Recent Media Reports 
on the Harvard Lawsuit
    
     On Feb. 13, the closing arguments in the Harvard lawsuit presented before Boston District Court Judge Burroughs was widely reported. She said to Harvard, "They have a no-victim problem," referring to Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), "but you have a personal rating problem." Click on 1 and/or 2.

     True.  Harvard has "a personal rating problem."  It's proof positive of Harvards' discrimination against AsAm applicants.

      However, to say that SFFA has a "no-victim problem" is NOT quite accurate. The Boston Court has 7 depositions from AsAm students who were victims of Harvard's admissions policy. A deposition is a witness's sworn out-of-court testimony. It is used to gather information as part of the discovery process and, in limited circumstances, may be used at trial.

       Beware!  If our kids names are exposed in the trial, they will be 
harassed, threatened and bullied. Abby Fisher's life was made miserable by social media and crank calls. 

       Nevertheless, I'll not be too surprised if one of our kids may one day say, "Afraid? We all are. Someone must make a stand. Let it be me." That is the way that 80-20 EF has always handled issues, in contrast to, say, C-100. :-( EF is not only standing but trusted & growing stronger. Similarly, the courageous students who will decide to "make a stand" will thrive and be the heroes and heroines of the entire AsAm community!

               CONCLUSIONS on the Hoover Institute Report 
                                                       
       After hearing reports from many directions concerning the panel discussions held on Feb 11 and Feb 14, it seems fair to conclude:

1) Many of the panelists, including Larry Diamond, stressed that this was a "work in progress". They stressed that revisions would be made to try to address the strong concerns raised by the Chinese Am community, including the need to be accurate and try to prevent stigmatizing. So the threat to the Asian-/Chinese-Am community has drastically decreased. Any intimidation attempt, if there was one, has been completely turned back and negated!


2) However, the group of 32 China Hands still supports Pres. Trump's Big Power Politics Agenda.


                               China Hands Are Split


     On Feb 12, Susan Shirk, the lone dissenter in the Hoover Institute Report, was joined by Orville Schell as a co-chair in publishing a task force report on US-China relations.  It is entitled Course Correction:  Toward an Effective and Sustainable China policy.  That report didn't attack the Chinese-Am community, at all.  It states that it supports Pres. Trump's policy but also has some serious disagreements with it. 
     You can always count on 80-20 EF to defend your rights, almost always successfully, thanks to your support.

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S. B. Woo


President and a volunteer for the past 20 years
80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization,
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89)

PS:  We gratefully acknowledge a donation of $4,000 from Woo's Foundation, Newark, DE  making its total donation $20,274 above & beyond its 5 year pledge.
        
 
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