Several members of the US Congress have scored the mainstream media for their lack of coverage of the Asian American and Pacific Islander vote during the presidential primaries and caucuses.
The lawmakers are: US Representatives Mike Honda; Eni Faleomavaega; Madeleine Bordalio; Neil Abercrombie; Xavier Becerra; Al Green; Mazie Hirono; Doris Matsui, Robert Scott; and David Wu. We are the minority of the minorities!
However,Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up the fastest growing racial group in the US nationwide, approximately 7 million Asian Americans are eligible to vote. It is estimated about 6% of US population at present but will be increasing to 33 million by 2050. It is time that due attention is paid to this rapidly growing and politically relevant community.
In California,Asian voters represented 8% of the population and exceeded the African American population by 1%.
Asian Americans would be disappointed if we are not included in USA as fellow Americans. Presidential election in 2008 has a racial issue and we hope to have a new president to represent interests of all Americans.
The Sino-American economic relations including Olympic Games in Beijing, China in 2008 should deserve the favorable attention of all nations in the world for international competition in sports,not politics for Western nations to be aware the humanity of sports in all fairness.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao,a student of economics including economics of discrimination as included in economics textbooks for such awareness of racial inequities. In the current scene,Presidential candidate Senator Obama has spoken such issue to all Americans recently. March 27, 2008 at 7.15 a.m.
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