'Inconvenient Minority' author: How are Asian Americans succeeding if US is systemically racist?

The author of a new book “Inconvenient Minority” argued on Wednesday that Asian Americans are an “inconvenient minority” to the critical race theory narrative because their community succeeds based on merit alone.

Xu attributed Asian-American success to "culture" because they tend to "study twice as hard," are typically raised in two-parent family structures, and place "strong value on education."  "It's the love for hard work and for meritocracy, and that's at stake with critical race theory because critical race theory believes that merit is racist,"  Xu said. "So if policies like Harvard's discrimination against Asian Americans are allowed, guess who loses out? It's the hard-working Asian Americans that work so hard to get their spot." According to the Pew Research Center's statistics on the economic status of Asian Americans', they are performing "well" compared with the overall U.S. population. However, it explained further that it "varies widely among Asian origin groups."