Posted on 11/20/2020 12:20:40 PM PST by 11th_VA
Sacramento’s top health official referred to Asian Americans as “yellow folks” during a board of supervisors meeting on Tuesday.
County Health Director Dr. Peter Beilenson used the phrase, which many Asian American advocates consider a racial slur, while speaking in support of a resolution declaring racism a public health crisis.
“It’s a crucial thing we need to be doing to address the issues of the African-American, and brown, and yellow folks, as well as the white folks” Beilenson said while speaking inside the county chambers, wearing a mask over his chin.
The term “yellow” has been used in the past to evoke exoticism and danger in regards to specifically East Asian people. Terms like “Yellow Peril” were common in the early 1900s to support racist, anti-China policies.
Beilenson told CapRadio that he’d misspoken.
“It was a significant mistake, I was put on the spot for giving my comments and obviously should have said ‘Asian American,’” Beilenson said. “As someone who’s really prided himself on 30 years of a career fighting racism, I very much apologize for my use of the term, and would certainly never do so again.”
Aarti Kohli, executive director of the Asian Law Caucus, says “there’s no reason to use that term whatsoever, and it shouldn’t be used.”
“I think at this moment, we’ve seen words matter, and with the rise of anti-China rhetoric, and this idea of Asians as foreigners, the word ‘yellow’ just kind of promotes that sentiment,” Kohli said....
“I’m calling to have Nav Gill removed,” Paula Spanos, a former public defender and law professor, told the board during a public comment via phone. “I left Sacramento County after 20 years because of the toxic environment of intimidation and discrimination against women perpretatrated by Nav Gill.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at capradio.org ...
Let me guess. Dr. Peter Beilenson thinks white people should be put at the end of the line for vaccination?
Picard facepalm.
Thanks Democratic Party - you’ve bought real racism back to America.
Idiot
....okay....so we had to move away from “colored people” to “people of color...” so now is it going to be “folks of yellow” or where do we go from here? I guess this all makes me a person of white.....? truly.... the inmates ARE running the asylum......
If he’d said “black, brown, yellow, and white folks” it would have been okay?
Black is good. White is okay. But yellow is a mistake? This is Huge Discrimination against Hues!
Took one for the team and read the entire underlying article. Sure seems like this guy is a proxy for hate against the County CEO Nav Gill (have no clue about Sacramento politics but assume that’s the health director’s ultimate boss).
So the health official said a single “bad word” which might overtake every other thing, good or bad, he’s done in his career. And as “woke” as he is (as shown in his apology), it’s never enough for the howling mob.
Hasta la vista, Dr. Beilenson, old white guy. Had enough of the “progressive” vision yet?
Yes he’s a health specialist talking about jaundice of
Course.
I always remember Inspector Clouseau.
That line by Fields, and the risque scene in the same film where he's wrestling a woman in the dentist chair, are examples of what they could get away with pre-code. That was the 30's. The "code" which excluded The Party of Slavery from any accusation of racism became official in the 60's and we're still supposed to continue to ignore the obvious.
Carlotta Monte. His mistress was the woman.
Why is “yellow folks” a slur while white, black and brown folks is not?
Because of history.
Obviously a dem.
All is forgiven.
Get real, folks!
“Red & Yellow, Black & White, they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the World!”
Why MUST we proclaim that BLACK lives matter and at the same time, flee all other reference to skin color. (see Washington Redskins)
Quit playing the Identity Politics Game. Resign from Snowflakes-R-Us!
By the way...he’s a democrat
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