"Stop using Asians as role models"

"Hough's comment is problematic on another front as well, and it's one that references an ugly old trope that's gained fresh momentum in recent years: The positioning of Asian-Americans as a "model minority" that African-Americans should emulate if they want to rise out of the circumstances this nation has imposed upon them.

Look at the Asians, goes this line of argument. They've done what needs to be done to succeed here -- they've worked hard, they've embraced this nation in all of its upwardly mobile glory. They've also integrated with America, by which those espousing this view typically mean "white America," as can be seen by the rest of Hough's comment in which he points out that his Asian students have adopted a "very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration" while "virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration."...
it suggests that assimilation and cultural erasure are the only means to succeed in America. It dismisses those who don't succeed in the precise ways that white America defines as success as failures, and blames them for their inadequacy and laziness. And it sets America's striving masses against one another"
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/22/opinions/yang-asians-role-models/index.html

Ya. Black people aren't really considered American. And when I am being successful, and like American, suddenly I'm 'basically white'. There isn't really winning.

(credit to ZO)