I wouldn't consider that 'just fine,'' Bruce Embrey, the co-chair of the Manzanar Committee, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raise awareness about the incarceration of Japanese-Americans in World War II, told ABC News.Įmbrey, who had four uncles serve in WWII, says their heroism shows an incomplete story. Well, my family lost their constitutional rights. Just be good Americans, don't make waves or protest, show how patriotic we are and everything will be fine. 'Many in our community, during and after the forced removal of our families in '42, argued precisely what Yang is saying. Yang's invocation of Japanese-Americans who volunteered for military duty during World War II, without proper historical context, was another point of contention, they said.

The call for Asian Americans to display their 'American-ness' was only part of the problem, experts argue. Yang's team had no comment when ABC News reached out for a response. The video had garnered over 78,400 views through Sunday morning. In the video, she is dressed in red, white and blue and is standing on the street with a sign that reads, 'Honk if you won't hate crime me,' while handing out Clorox wipes to strangers. Two days after the article was published, Jenny Yang posted a video of her attempting to take the former presidential candidate's advice and embrace her 'American-ness' in order to show 'how ridiculous this premise was.' But saying, 'Don't be racist toward Asians,' won't work.' 'Andrew is telling us we cannot expect telling people to not be racist to work, so we should lean in to be more American so we will be less threatening to other Americans,' - a direct reference to Yang's words in the article, 'I obviously think that being racist is not a good thing. 'I felt my stomach sink,' Jenny Yang told ABC News. Jenny Yang, an Asian American comedian and writer whose known for using her work to address Asian American issues, said this is the wrong message.

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