More on Critical Race Theory

With thirteen people dead in Binghamton, here is an opportunity to understand what it means to have racial literacy. The fourteenth, Jiverly Wong, the unfortunate perpetrator of this horrifying act, has been described as a "Vietnamese immigrant," as a "Vietnamese-American," and as a "naturalized Vietnamese citizen."

When a white person goes mad and shoots, no one ever says "a white person" or a "Caucasian."

It's as if white people don't have race, only people of color do.

Think about the assumption that is the basis for these kinds of descriptions. Any person of color is considered "other."

For Asians, there is the additional specter of "foreignness" that follows them. They are not just considered people of color, but also foreign, as if they don't belong here.