"US Presidential Candidate Bobby Jindal and Model Minorities"

"Jindal is an easy target because of his explicit desires to assimilate into whiteness (he has a whitened portrait of himself hanging in his office). But I would argue that one of the most dangerous mischaracterizations of the model minority myth is its presumed proximity to whiteness. The currency of the model minority logic is not through whiteness (i.e. being white-washed) but, instead, explicitly through racial difference. This is evident through state practices on multiculturalism that celebrate racial and cultural diversity in superficial ways. More substantively this plays out within the model minority myth itself: model minorities are exemplified not for their assimilation into whiteness but for their allegedly unique cultural characteristics (hard working, family kinship networks, academic excellence etc.) that create different racial formations within white supremacy...

To successfully challenge the model minority myth, we have to understand it not simply in relationship to whiteness, but as part of racial logics that create “positive” vs. “problem” communities. While it is easier to ridicule individuals like Jindal for “being white,” it is harder for social and racial justice movements to be attuned to racial power within and across communities of color. Bobby Jindal is, after all, one of us."
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/US-Presidential-Candidate-Bobby-Jindal-and-Model-Minorities-20150721-0019.html
Hmmm. This thing of remembering not to place people who are trying to be white as white.