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“We are not makers of history. We are made by history,” said Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose life we celebrate this week.
For South Asian Americans to earn their rightful place in the public square as citizens with equal rights, change cannot come through the likes of pseudo-progressive politicians or deceptively patriotic candidates, such as Nikky Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy.
As a child of immigrants, he is “lifting talking points from neo-Nazis,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center about Vivek Ramaswamy, a self-proclaimed pseudo-patriot who seemed to have forgotten his South Asian immigrant roots.
