The American Independent, March 19, 2021, GOP congressman: If America is so racist, how do you explain why Asians are successful?
Republican Rep. Tom McClintock (CA) suggested structural racism did not exist during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Thursday, claiming that successful Asian Americans were proof the issue was made up.
“What should make us all proud as Americans is that Asian Americans have the highest median income of any ethnic group in America, including white Americans,” he said during the hearing, which was convened to discuss rising violence and racism against the Asian American Pacific Islander community. “If America were such a hate-filled, discriminatory, racist society filled with animus against Asian Americans,” he continued, “how do you explain the remarkable success of Asian Americans in our country?”
Moreover, the idea that all Asian Americans are success stories is patently untrue. A National Community Reinvestment Coalition racial wealth report from May 2020 found, “Despite Asian Americans having the highest household median income, most Asian Americans have a higher rate of poverty than White Americans, with Hmong having a poverty rate twice that of White Americans.”
