Where Are the Asians in the Asian Republican Coalition?
Written by Paula Young Lee
I promise that what I’m about to tell you is not from The Onion. There is an Asian Republican Coalition (ARC), and it appears to consist of the run-of-the-mill Republicans that appear on Fox News: silver-haired white men in good suits, flanked by rafts of attractive white women. In order to be “inclusive,” the ARC’s co-chair, Thomas Britt, declared this group is “open to all Americans.” Because they are a generous organization, they will extend their membership to include one Asian—the ARC’s other chair, John Ying.
If the organization’s own photos are any indication, its target demographic seems to be “those of us like me [Britt] who are not ethnically Asian but have spent twenty years living in Hong Kong.” The Asian Republican Coalition also welcomes Americans (read “white men”) who are married to Asians or doing business in Asia. According to this logic, Nicolas Cage, who is married to Alice Kim, and Woody Allen, who is married to Soon-Yi Previn, are now Asian. So is investment banker Tim Leissner, who is Kimora Lee Simmons’s new husband. Though she’s only half-Korean, her fashion line sells in Singapore, wherefore she is Asian—and so is her husband by extension. Insofar as corporations are persons, I guess that retailers that import goods from China, such as Walmart and Hobby Lobby, are now Chinese people.
“Guess what, bunny?” I gleefully told my Yankee Republican boyfriend. “Thanks to your party’s new outreach program, you’re Korean!” He grunted absently and continued cleaning his revolver. Because as far as he’s concerned, he’s not Asian. I’m white.
Oh, yeah. I forgot about that.
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