Kenny Xu An Inconvenient Minority

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This is Harvard. And I'm going to have to help you or you're going to have to help me, sir, get the pronunciation right. Is it Kevin Zhu? It's Kenny Zhu.

Kenny Zhu. OK, I'm sorry. So I did have the last part of it, right? I apologize.

I messed up. Kenny, welcome. Good to have you. Thanks for being here today. Thanks so much, Greg.

I appreciate being here. Absolutely. Talk to me, first of all, about this Harvard case. Where does that stand? The Supreme Court was taking that case up.

They did not render a decision right now. Well, as your listeners may know, a group of Asian-Americans sued Harvard for discriminating against them. And Harvard's rationale for discriminating against Asian-Americans is because they don't want Asian-Americans to be overrepresented at their school. Because if people on merit alone, Asian-Americans would make up about 43% of the school.

Instead, they make up about 18%. And an Asian-American has to score about 440 points higher on the SAT to have the same chance of admission as a black person. And this case is really about to what extent is it acceptable to use race in admissions? Because now you're using race to favor one minority over another minority. It's not just about white people and black anymore. Our society is more complicated than that. And the case has progressed through the courts, through the district court, through the appeals court, and now it's actually at the Supreme Court.

And if the Supreme Court takes up this case, which could be as early as October, right now they're soliciting the Biden administration's feedback on the case, then it could have the potential to change affirmative action, college admissions, the meaning of race in society forever. There's a particular visa, I think it's called the, is it the SB1? Do you know the one I'm talking about for skilled labor?

I'm vaguely familiar with it. I'm bringing that into the conversation from this perspective. The reason that they are doing this, the reason they are bringing in foreign assistance for these high tech positions, basically skilled positions, is because, folks, they keep the standards of education at universities in order to do this supposed diversification. No one wins, Kenny. The bottom line here is no one wins. Asian students certainly don't win because all of their hard work is not acknowledged. I mean, any time you have success in an industry, it's in the past kind of in the American way that they should be doing this. I mean, any time you have success in an industry, it's in the past kind of in the American way that they share some of those secrets, values, principles that they use to be successful, and then everyone wins at a higher level.

This is the exact opposite of that. It's unique that people would try to attack Asian Americans for being successful at academics. Historically speaking, we've had all kinds of ethnic groups who were successful at one thing at another, and you would just let them be successful at it. You have black Americans who were great shoemakers in the early 1900s.

They formed a disproportionate brunt of the shoemaking industry. Now today, you have black Americans who were very successful in media, entertainment, sports in some cases, and places in business as well. And so now you have Asian Americans who are good, disproportionately skilled educationally.

Why not just let them reap the rewards of what they're skilled at? That should be the way that we should treat people. We should treat people on the work area that they have, not on their background, but unfortunately, we have resentment politics right now that's fueling this backlash. Is it resentment politics, or is it just a continuation of their effort to divide us up, to try to clear these pockets of division and derision in order to cause us to be angry with one another instead of cheering one another on?

Well, in my book, An Inconvenient Minority, which is now out in stores, and I'm actually making the argument that the divisive identity politics that we're seeing today is actually sparked by a tribal resentment politics. You see, Harvard elites and the class at Harvard sincerely does not like the vision of their student body being 43% Asian. They think it's kind of a stain on their student body.

For example, I'll tell you why I know this is the case. Harvard grades applicants on three things, extracurriculars and personality. And Asian Americans score highest on academics.

They score highest on extracurriculars. But then to make up for it, Harvard grades them the lowest on personality. And there's no evidence that Asian Americans are in fact lower personality, whatever that means.

It means likability, humor, charisma, leadership. Asian Americans score just as high as whites on the alumni interviews and almost as high as whites on the teacher recommendations, yet their lowest in personality under all of the races. So there's no objective evidence to suggest that except for the alumni's underlying stereotype sentiment against Asian American excellence. And it would seem that they have decided what they believe is the ethnic mix that they want to see, especially in this new woke culture. Is that also of what we're dealing with?

Yeah, I think so. We have a new movement towards equity today. Equity is the idea that all of the races should be equally represented.

Right? Equal representation. That's what equity is. You want equal outcomes.

Basically, it's race communism. And if you have, for example, if an equity person would say that if there are only 6% black people in a company, that that number needs to be bumped up to 13% to reflect the proportion of black Americans in this country. As we know, this is absurd because black Americans, just like every American, choose different industries.

They have different skills, different talents, different levels of education. You cannot enforce equity at every level of society. But Harvard is trying to do that with its admissions process because it arrogantly believes that they are the leaders that they control and produce the next generation of leaders and they want it to be so-called racially equitable. Well, and it seems as though Harvard has become just like every other institution in America where really they're just about their nation.

They have a particular ideology that they want pushed, and so they have joined the collective and become part of an indoctrination. It's not really about attaining any kind of academic excellence or reaching for any kind of assistance to make their graduates highly successful individuals. I suppose they're a part of the club to a degree, but it's definitely not showing itself in America's corporate business world. Technology, sciences, creativity, you don't see evidences of the Ivy League schools making the kind of influence that they once did.

Yeah, it's true. We have this reputation for the Ivy League's prestigious universities because supposedly they have the best student body. But that is quickly coming to challenge because the Ivy League have been discriminating against the best and most qualified for about the last 30 years. So what they have now is they have a $40 billion, Harvard has a $40 billion endowment for a rich university, but they're increasingly training mediocre kids. One out of three Harvard student body members are now considered legacy, meaning that they have one parent who's gone to the alumni. Children of donors now make up potentially one out of university kid. Now you have affirmative action, you have racial preferences, go with it. And you know, people like to say race is only one factor in their admissions.

Well, merit is only one factor in their admissions. They're not hold that thought. Hold that thought, Kenny, for just a minute. We're going to take a quick break. We're going to come back when we get back. Because the other big issue here is, is you've got, you know, students that are listening to us today, parents that are listening to us today, and they're pulling their hair out saying, well, what do I do? I want to send my kid to a good school to get a good education.

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Thanks so much for being with us. I know you have a choice on where you can listen each and every day, and I think it would keep me tuned here to Chosen Generation Radio. My special guest is Kenny Hsu, and he has a brand-new book out that you can pick up, An Inconvenient Minority. An inconvenient minority. You can find it at Amazon, wherever fine books are sold. If you pick it up there, use smile.amazon, and please put in Faith Harvest Church.

Faith Harvest Church. Kenny, we might have, I'm sure we have, students. Well, as parents that are listening right now, that are hearing what you're talking about, about these admission scales being slanted, and whether they're Asian, whether they're white, whether they're a shade of red or brown, all of us, what can parents be doing?

What should they be looking for? How do we, because I would suggest that this hurdle is not just a Harvard hurdle. This is an overall education system hurdle.

Well, I'll tell you what parents should be looking for. If your kid, if you genuinely believe your kid is an exceptional student, an exceptional kid, he will, studies actually show that going to an Ivy League university doesn't necessarily influence your chance of long-term success. The socioeconomic income is not like this is the only thing that matters, but they match household income for people who got rejected by Ivy League schools, with people who went to Ivy League colleges over a longitudinal study, a long period of time, and they found that there was no change, statistically significant. So if your kid is genuine, he will perform in an economy that values meritocracy. If you want prestige for your child, obviously, play the game, go to the Ivy League, everything like that. But it's more, I think now, especially with the way that colleges are going down and starting to judge people on race, inflict a sense of identity and grievance politics into universities, it's far more important that you scout out the university and make sure that your kid has an opportunity to thrive as a Christian, to have a good social life around people who are like-minded. It doesn't have to be everybody, but I think that that's very important today. And again, you have an ability, if you're aware of the situation, too, I guess, right? That makes a big difference as far as watching the result to see what happens. When you said October is when you believe that the case before the Supreme Court is going to get heard and potentially an answer come down?

Yes, potentially early as October. This is a case that I think is worth following, no matter who you are, because it has implications for the rest of the country. If you're a person who wants to get into a good college or have a good employment opportunity, you want to be sure of your merit, on the content of your character, not the color of your skin. And unfortunately, that ideology is going down the drain. And it's something, folks, that we have to push back against.

It ties in with the whole idea of CRT and that being jammed down parents' throats. It is a racist-based concept all across the board, and we have to reject it. We absolutely have to reject it. Kenny, I thank you for the fight that you're fighting for our Asian community, but not just for the Asian community, for all of us.

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