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What Asian Americans will be in Obama's Cabinet?
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| Contributor | Karma Policeman |
| Last Edited | Karma Policeman Nov 25, 2008 12:34am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Selection must have happened during retro-seventies hour, because Obama's transition team is rockin' a lot of yellow and brown tones.
Heh, okay, that was cheesy. But for people wondering what our first president of color is going to do for communities of hue, his transition team selections did bode well.
He was careful to select a number of Asian Americans for the transition team, including three leading figures, and, although that didn't come off without controversy, the controversy was entirely within the Asian American community itself. (And, might I add, typical of the sorts of political rivalries largely immigrant communities fail to leave behind them when they emigrate.)
But, as this commentator points out, Obama's telecom policy has been advanced (and well staffed) from the beginning, so perhaps the number of Indian Americans on the transition team is less about civil rights policy and more about tech development. Of course, of the four Indian Americans currently on the transition team, only Sonal Shah has anything directly to do with tech. But she IS heading up his tech policy, and I'm not being silly or stereotyping when I suggest that Obama's tech and science savvy (not to mention any emphasis on entrepreneurship) could offer more Asian Americans opportunities in his administration.
So the big question on everyone's mind right now is: will he do as well for people of color in appointing his cabinet?
So far, in a word: no. |
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