Sadly, Yang’s campaign hasn’t done much to rally Asians Americans behind this mission either. Asian president? I can’t say there’s been any anticipation built up for an Asian American in the White House. We’ve usually heard endless chatter about how in our lifetime we could see the first black president, first female president, first gay president, first. Why isn’t this being talked about more?”Ĭontrast this with the media coverage that has surrounded other candidates. Why isn’t this being talked about more? “Andrew Yang is the first Asian American man in history to make a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. I found this rather odd because that means not a single major newspaper thought this was a historic moment worth reporting. When I tried to fact check this, the only result I got was Wikipedia, and there weren’t even any citations. That means that Andrew Yang is the first Asian American man in history to make a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Bobby Jindal, the Indian American former governor of Louisiana was the second Asian American man to run for president, also under the Republican party, in 2016. The first Asian American to run for president was a Cantonese American man by the name of Hiram Fong, who was a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives and ran for the Republican nomination in 1964. Even though candidates Kamala Harris and Tulsi Gabbard also carry Asian blood, Yang is the only candidate who can claim to be exclusively Asian American.

He’s the son of Taiwanese immigrants and has had a comfortable upbringing in upstate New York. Andrew Yang is an entrepreneur running for president of the United States. There’s an interesting social phenomenon playing out right now. Twitter: Pod of Most Resistance ( Phan ( following transcript comes from the show Pod of Most Resistance, episode “Andrew Yang Knows a Lot of Doctors.” It has been edited for length and clarity. Join Phan as she tackles the most perverse misconceptions and skewed narratives within contemporary politics and tells the story of America from the side of resistance. Plan A Magazine is proud to present Phan’s podcast, Pod of Most Resistance, Challenging Dominant Narratives One Episode At A Time. Rarely do we realize that the accepted narratives come from our oppressors, who wield the power and money to have their POV dominate our thoughts. Some topics are hard to discuss: racism, sexual violence, immigration reform, slavery, gun control. Biden was still vice president when Obama was compelled to return American troops to Iraq in 2014 after the rise of the Islamic State extremist group.Asian Americans should be excited about Yang’s candidacy, but host Phan deconstructs why his views on race are far from progressive or unifying in a fractured America. pullout under a deal negotiated by the Bush administration in late 2008.

That was the deadline for a complete U.S. Obama and Biden failed to win agreement from the Iraqi government to keep a limited number of U.S. What Biden did not mention was that some of the troops had to go back. Obama asked Biden to take the lead in efforts to withdraw troops and coordinate efforts to maintain stability in Baghdad. THE FACTS: True, but that's not the end of the story. Now, if you'll excuse me, potholes await.'īIDEN, saying President Barack Obama asked him to get 156,000 troops out of Iraq: 'I did that.' I, Pete Buttigieg, politician, do henceforth and forthwith declare, most affirmatively and indubitably, unto the ages, that I do favor 'Medicare for All,' as I do favor any measure that would help get all Americans covered. On the same day, he sent out a separate tweet: 'Gosh! Okay. A day later, he tweeted out a column he wrote as a Harvard University senior, saying he'd 'been on record on this one since 2004.'

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