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That’s patently false. White students are over represented as well and there’s plenty of conversation about that. Some Asian-Americans have used their mega phones — and I would argue white folks have gladly let them — to tamp down accusations the test is racially biased.
But the extent to which Asian Americans have been the faces of this story is because that is where the most vocal public pushback has come and the very tweet you’re referencing addresses Lieu saying reform efforts are anti-Asian and racist.
It’s been easy, then, for white people who also don’t want changes to the test, who also are overrepresented in a system built to ensure their advantage, to sit behind the scenes and let it seem as if these are just “minority” groups fighting.
Meanwhile allowing Asians to be the tool to indemnify claims of racial injustice in a system that excludes nearly all of the kids representing 70 percent of public school students.
So, please show me where the argument is that there are too many Asians instead of there are not enough black and Latino students and then figure out who benefits from the former interpretation.
