https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-american-dream-a-damaging-ideology-to-black-people/SNIP:
San Francisco State University Assistant Professor of Management Verónica Caridad Rabelo was recently asked during a virtual panel August 4 focused on anti-racism about what behaviors and patterns can perpetuate rather than counteract “anti-black racism.”
Rabelo, as part of her response, argued that the “model minority myth obscures the realities of racism.”
Rabelo criticized the idea that all people can attain success “through effort and following the rules, regardless of one’s identities or experiences.”
Rabelo defined the “model minority mythology” as “a set of stereotypes and structures that casts typically Asian Americans but other groups as well as ‘ideal’ members of organizations in society based on their perceived work ethic, educational attainment and success.”
“And so the model minority myth is rooted in anti-blackness,” she said.
What Rabelo is referring to is an argument against the idea that America is systemically racist. Pundits will often point to the success of Asian Americans, who have the highest household income in the country. If a minority community is able to do so well, this line of thought asserts, success in America relies more on individual decisions than on race.
However, Rabelo claimed that this idea is “rooted in anti-blackness because it seeks to differentiate ‘model minorities’ from bad or undesirable minorities.”
