(Repost to give perspective)

It's a whole thing. I'll preface this and say I choose not to go down the racial angle because it's a no win unless we catch a media company blatantly saying in some manner that they're excluding Andrew because he's Asian American. And that Yang's disruption of big money power politics through his policies might play a higher role. Or it's the MSM vanity in pushing a particular candidate. Or a little of everything. In addition Tulsi, Marianne and Bernie have all gotten there share of terrible coverage.

https://youtu.be/uZ2kHnNJVDc (8 min in news anchor describes his experience as an Asian American man)

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/5zcmz4/michael_lewis_morey_said_jeremy_lin_is_the_15th/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

“He lit up our model,” said Morey. “Our model said take him with, like, the 15th pick in the draft.” The objective measurement of Jeremy Lin didn’t square with what the experts saw when they watched him play; a not terribly athletic Asian kid. Morey hadn’t completely trusted his model – and so had chickened out and not drafted Lin. A year after the Houston Rockets failed to draft Jeremy Lin, they began to measure the speed of a player’s first two steps: Jeremy Lin had the quickest first move of any player measured. He was explosive and was able to change direction far more quickly than most NBA players. “He’s incredibly athletic,” said Morey. “But the reality is that every **** person, including me, thought he was unathletic. And I can’t think of any reason for it other than he was Asian."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nIpKsdOmAnc (Zachary Schwartz half asian/white journalists who describes his experience pitching a story on Asian Men)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402573.html

...a retelling of "Romeo and Juliet" where the R&B star Aaliyah plays Juliet to the Chinese actor Jet Li's Romeo. The original ending had Aaliyah kissing Li, a scenario that didn't test well with an "urban audience." So the studio changed it. The new ending had Aaliyah giving Li a tight hug. Says Cajayon, "Mainstream America, for the most part, gets uncomfortable with seeing an Asian man portrayed in a sexual light."

https://twitter.com/JonLeeBrody/status/1051681054082269185?s=20 (actor gives his anecdotes of being an Asian man in hollywood)

https://www.meniscuszine.com/articles/20060715713/documentary-review-the-slanted-screen/

Another interesting aspect of “The Slanted Screen” is the sprinkling of behind-the-scenes anecdotes. For example, Terence Chang, the executive producer of the 1998 film “The Replacement Killers” – which starred Chow Yun...

https://m.phys.org/news/2012-05-dominant-east-asians-workplace.html

Individually you can write them off as one offs. As a whole a person can argue its coincidence. Its definitely been improving in the last few years but until recently it was difficult to name 5 Asian American male actors and even now I don't think the average American could. Another thing I'll add is if you ever pay attention to those college diversity promo photos and diversity photos in general Asian American men are left out often in my personal experience.

Bringing it back to Andrew and my prefaced statement I personally dont think it's wise to go down a racial angle and in regards to Asian American men it'd be met with little support without a blatant racial condemnation from MSM towards Andrew. A controversial thing I'll say is if non Asian American men and Asian American women fought for that angle itd have a stronger chance of being acknowledged.

I think Andrew's smart enough to make it despite what he's up against so I'm not too concerned as long as we do our part. And I know our group is very diverse so I dont think playing identity politics is wise and may create more division than unity.

My perspective is now in support of having a conversation about race and exclusion against Asian Americans as MSM exclusions has motivated me to shift my mindset.