I found this article very interesting, and a bell went off when I was reading the bit about the backgrounds of the board members. Ms. Tanikawa seemed to be the

I found this article very interesting, and a bell went off when I was reading the bit about the backgrounds of the board members. Ms. Tanikawa seemed to be the most militant in her beliefs, but think her strong opposition to the magnet-school system deserves a second look. While the US officially classifies many different ethnicities as “Asian” that doesn’t really account for the strained relationships and bigotry that exists between different cultural and ethnic groups.Based on the location of the school district/board, it’s pretty clear that the lower and middle class immigrant families that are using the magnet school system as a means of upward mobility are mostly Chinese and Korean. If we hold Ms. Tanikawa to the same level of scrutiny that she subjected Mr. Maron to, it’s fair to say that her own biases could be informing her own position as well. I have noticed that some of the most vehement “Anti-racists” have employed this ideology to paradoxically advocate for ideas and policies that are, in the most basic and obvious way, racist.