{"id":540878,"date":"2021-05-25T22:35:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T02:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540878"},"modified":"2021-05-25T22:35:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T02:35:36","slug":"yang-blasts-racist-cartoon-published-in-new-york-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yang-blasts-racist-cartoon-published-in-new-york-daily-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Yang Blasts \u2018Racist Cartoon\u2019 Published In New York Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyang-blasts-racist-cartoon-published-in-new-york-daily-news%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540878&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1296351555-scaled-e1620746422676.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"45.002437835202\">\n<p>New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang blasted Tuesday what he described as a \u201cracist cartoon\u201d published Monday by The New York Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>Yang issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewYang\/status\/1397282591745744900\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> Tuesday, comparing the cartoon to the stereotypically exaggerated depictions of Asians during World War II which have been \u201cused to divide and exclude people for hundreds of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He echoed his wife, Evelyn Yang\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvelynYang\/status\/1396950909796720642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earlier comments<\/a> calling out the news outlet for publishing a \u201cracist disfiguration\u201d of her husband.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.025974025974\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My thoughts on the racist cartoon of me published by the Daily News. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z9F9O2bNXP\">pic.twitter.com\/Z9F9O2bNXP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Yang???????????????? (@AndrewYang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewYang\/status\/1397282591745744900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYesterday a Daily News cartoon was published that depicted me \u2014 or a racialized caricature clearly intended to be me \u2014 as a tourist in Times Square. The cartoon stemmed from an interview where I shared that my favorite subway stop is the one I\u2019ve used to get home for 22 years,\u201d Yang explained the origin of the caricature.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.2469135802469\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cartoon <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3s68j4EHct\">pic.twitter.com\/3s68j4EHct<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Bramhall (@BillBramhall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillBramhall\/status\/1396901906694426626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/yang-support-israel-yangsupportsgenocide-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yang<\/a> drew parallels between the cartoon \u2014 which depicts him as a tourist to New York City, despite him having lived there for 25 years \u2014 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/30\/asian-american-violence-racism-cefaan-kim-new-york-43rd-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">uptick in violence<\/a> against members of the Asian American community. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/25\/bill-de-blasio-andrew-yang-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: NYC Mayoral Candidate Soars To The Top Of The Field In Just Over A Week)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mayoral candidate claimed that he has always been open to differences in opinion with regards to policy, but portraying him \u201cas a perpetual foreigner to this city is wrong and subtly approves racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time you say that I\u2019m not a real New Yorker, you\u2019re telling another Asian American that they don\u2019t belong,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve lived here for 25 years in this city,\u201d Yang continued. \u201cMy wife Evelyn is from Queens, My children were born at St. Luke\u2019s. I\u2019m a public school parent. Implying otherwise is the repetition of a narrative that\u2019s been used to tell Asians and Latinos and Jews and Muslims and Black Americans that we don\u2019t belong.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang blasted Tuesday what he described as a \u201cracist cartoon\u201d published Monday by The New York Daily News. 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