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Praising Asians’ Work Ethic Is ‘A Creation of White Supremacy,’ Activist Says

Matthew McDonald

Less than a week before Harvard College goes to trial with an Asian-American group suing the school on a claim of anti-Asian bias in admissions, a panelist on campus suggested Asians are just as committed to left-wing goals as anyone else.

"The model minority myth is a creation of white supremacy," said Carolyn W. Chou, a 2013 graduate of Harvard College and executive director of the Asian American Resource Workshop in Boston, according to The Harvard Crimson. "I think today about how this case is what's in the news, but there are Asian American workers who are leading the hotel strikes right now in Boston, in Chicago, in Honolulu. That's the other story of our communities. It's not just Harvard students."

Boston Trinity Academy – Modeling ‘a City Upon a Hill’
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Boston Trinity Academy – Modeling ‘a City Upon a Hill’

Kate Albert, Boston Trinity Academy

In 1630, John Winthrop, the leader of the Puritan founders who landed in Boston, delivered what would become a famous sermon just before the first group of Massachusetts Bay Colonists departed for America on the ship Arbella. The sermon, titled "A Model of Christian Charity," is one of the most famous documents in American history. One portion in particular has been frequently quoted, including by Presidents John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan:

For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.

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