Race/Related: How Asian Americans Fueled the San Francisco Recall

Chinese American voters and volunteers were crucial to effort to remove three school board members. 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She has two teenage boys in the public school district.Jim Wilson/The New York Times San Francisco Recall Vote Fueled by Asian Voters’ Ire [Author Headshot](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0TAaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvdGhvbWFzLWZ1bGxlcj9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDIxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MzY4NyZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9ODMzMTImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmIF69sQYj8rNmJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) By [Thomas Fuller](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0TAaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvdGhvbWFzLWZ1bGxlcj9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDIxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MzY4NyZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9ODMzMTImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmIF69sQYj8rNmJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) San Francisco Bureau Chief, National SAN FRANCISCO — As Election Day approached, a flurry of messages flashed across the phones of San Francisco’s Chinese American community. “Remember to vote,” said one message in Chinese from a campaign organizer, Selena Chu. “And throw out the commissioners who are discriminating against us and disrespecting our community.” [The lopsided victory in a recall election](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0TkaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8wMi8xNi91cy9zYW4tZnJhbmNpc2NvLXNjaG9vbC1ib2FyZC1yZWNhbGwuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDIxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MzY4NyZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9ODMzMTImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmIF69sQYj8rNmJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) on Tuesday that ousted three members of the San Francisco school board shook the city’s liberal establishment and was a resounding alarm of parental anger over the way the public school system handled the coronavirus pandemic. Parents of varying ethnicities and income levels who had coalesced last year while San Francisco schools remained closed — they stayed shut for much longer than those in other large cities — organized themselves through Facebook groups and vowed to push out Board of Education members for what they saw as incompetence. They kept their promise: The three commissioners were [removed by as much as 79 percent of voters](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0TfaHR0cHM6Ly9zZmVsZWN0aW9ucy5zZmdvdi5vcmcvZmVicnVhcnktMTUtMjAyMi1lbGVjdGlvbi1yZXN1bHRzLXN1bW1hcnk_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzcmZW1jPWVkaXRfcnJfMjAyMjAyMTkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9NTM2ODcmbmw9cmFjZSUyRnJlbGF0ZWQmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTgzMzEyJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgpiBevbEGI_KzZiUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~), an unequivocal rejection in a city renowned for fractious politics. For many Asian Americans in the city, especially the large Chinese American community, the results were an affirmation of the group’s voting power, coming with a high degree of organizing, turnout and intensity not seen in many years. In an election where every registered voter received a ballot, overall turnout was relatively low at 26 percent; turnout among the 30,000 people who requested Chinese-language ballots was significantly higher at 37 percent. In an overwhelmingly liberal city, Asian American voters have sided with Democrats for decades. But in recent years, a growing number of Chinese residents, many of them born in mainland China, have become a moderating political force. Most Chinese residents in the city are registered as independents and, as Tuesday’s election appeared to show, they are not afraid to buck some of the more liberal elements of the Democratic Party. It is a pattern that has emerged in other cities, [like New York](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP4QAAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZWNpdHkubnljL3BvbGl0aWNzLzIwMjEvMTEvMTEvMjI3NzczNDYvY2hpbmVzZS1uZXcteW9ya2Vycy12b3RlZC1mb3Itc2xpd2EtZ29wLXJlcHVibGljYW5zP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM3JmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjIwMjE5Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTUzNjg3Jm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD04MzMxMiZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYgXr2xBiPys2YlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA), that are largely Democratic with significant Asian American populations. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-0) ADVERTISEMENT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MTc0MTQ5JmxpPVJSJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1SUl8yMDIyMDIxOVcDbnl0QgpiBevbEGI_KzZiUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ “They are absolutely up for grabs,” David Lee, a political science lecturer at San Francisco State University, said of Asian American voters in the city. In Tuesday’s election, two issues in particular motivated Chinese American voters. The Board of Education had voted to put in place a lottery admission system at the highly selective Lowell High School, replacing an admission process that primarily selected students with the highest grades and test scores. Lowell, whose long list of notable alumni includes Justice Stephen G. Breyer, for decades had represented what one community member described as the “gateway to the American dream.” The introduction of the lottery system has reduced the number of Asian and white ninth graders at Lowell by around one-quarter and increased Black and Latino ninth graders by more than 40 percent. Chinese voters were also upset by tweets by Alison Collins, one of the recalled school board members, that were unearthed during the campaign. Ms. Collins said Asian Americans used “white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘get ahead.’” She went on to compare Asian Americans to slaves who had the advantage of working inside a slave owner’s home instead of doing more grueling labor in the fields, using asterisks to mask an anti-Black racial slur. The tweets reinforced a sentiment among many Chinese voters of being taken for granted, underrepresented and insulted, people involved in the recall campaign said. Asian American voters also said they were motivated by issues beyond the actions of the board: The number of [high-profile attacks against Asian Americans](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0TeaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wNy8xOC91cy9hc2lhbi1hdHRhY2tzLXNhbi1mcmFuY2lzY28uaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDIxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MzY4NyZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9ODMzMTImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmIF69sQYj8rNmJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~), many of them older, has traumatized the community. And many Chinese-owned businesses were suffering the effects of pandemic closures, especially in Chinatown. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-1) ADVERTISEMENT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MjA3NTc3JmxpPVJSJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1SUl8yMDIyMDIxOVcDbnl0QgpiBevbEGI_KzZiUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ “We are losing faith in government,” said Bayard Fong, president of the Chinese American Democratic Club. Asian Americans make up about 36 percent of San Francisco’s population, one of the largest such communities in a major city, but they are an incredibly diverse group that includes Filipinos, Indians, Vietnamese and Thais and features different economic, linguistic and ethnic backgrounds. Chinese Americans are by far the largest Asian group, making up 23 percent of San Francisco’s population. Forty percent of the population is white, 15 percent Latino and 6 percent Black. The ouster of the three board members will elevate the only Chinese American member of the seven-person board to the position of president. And it puts Mayor London Breed in the delicate position of appointing three replacement members who will be acceptable to the parents now closely watching the process. Recall campaigners say they hope more Asian Americans will be appointed to the board. Autumn Looijen, who with her partner, Siva Raj, organized signature gathering and initiated the recall campaign, described the Chinese American community as crucial to the recall’s success. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-2) ADVERTISEMENT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9NzI4Njk5JmxpPVJSJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1SUl8yMDIyMDIxOVcDbnl0QgpiBevbEGI_KzZiUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ “They were the backbone of our volunteer efforts,” Ms. Looijen said. “They have been really powering this campaign from the beginning.” During the campaign, organizers used WeChat, the Chinese-language messaging app, to offer everything from detailed instructions on how to fill out a ballot to organizing the deployment of volunteers in Chinatown, where lion dances and drumming exhorted residents to vote. “We shall be silent no more,” said a flier in English and Chinese handed out by the Chinese American Democratic Club. Parents who campaigned for the recall described an awakening in the Chinese American community by people who had been largely apolitical until now. Ms. Chu, the woman who sent the WeChat message urging people to vote, said she grew up with parents who advised her to remain quiet if she felt she was being treated unfairly. Many first-generation immigrants still feel that way, she said. Now a mother of two children in the San Francisco public school system, Ms. Chu felt compelled, for the first time, to become actively involved in an election. Her hands hurt, she said, from texting so much on WeChat during the campaign. She was motivated by a sense of being punished and pilloried for working hard and striving. “This year a lot of parents are telling me, ‘We are done with being scapegoats,’” Ms. Chu said. “We are still being looked at as foreigners,” she said. “We are Americans. You have to give us respect.” She called the recall election a milestone for the Asian American community. “They finally understand the power of their vote,” she said. [Read the [rest of the article](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0TlaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8wMi8xNy91cy9zYW4tZnJhbmNpc2NvLXNjaG9vbC1ib2FyZC1wYXJlbnRzLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzcmZW1jPWVkaXRfcnJfMjAyMjAyMTkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9NTM2ODcmbmw9cmFjZSUyRnJlbGF0ZWQmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTgzMzEyJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgpiBevbEGI_KzZiUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) and more about the Chinese American voters and volunteers who were crucial to victory.] Alberto Miranda When Angry Asian American Parents Get Organized [Author Headshot](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0TDaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvamF5LWNhc3BpYW4ta2FuZz9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDIxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MzY4NyZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9ODMzMTImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmIF69sQYj8rNmJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) By [Jay Caspian Kang](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0TDaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvamF5LWNhc3BpYW4ta2FuZz9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDIxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MzY4NyZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9ODMzMTImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmIF69sQYj8rNmJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) Our anxiety over the upcoming midterm and presidential elections has turned every vote, however local and peculiar, into a referendum on the future of the nation. Take last November’s governor’s race in Virginia. After the results came in for the Republican, Glenn Youngkin, hundreds of column inches were dedicated to how the result reflected a growing discontent among normally liberal voters about Covid school closures and critical race theory being taught in schools. This may have been the story of that particular election, but so many people seemed convinced that it was conclusive proof that Democrats had turned against their own party for good and would be summarily be sweeping progressives out of office in 2022 and 2024. I am not immune to this style of political fortune telling, but what’s more interesting to me is what actually drives these predictions of doom for Democrats. Two assumptions seem to be lurking somewhere underneath the surface. The first: School closures irreparably harmed the Democratic Party. The second: There is a backlash against diversity and equity measures, many of which were established after the nationwide George Floyd protests. So on Tuesday, when the deep blue city of San Francisco recalled three ultraprogressive, equity-focused members of the school board, ousting them in stunning three-to-one votes, what are we to make of it? Is it a harbinger of coming catastrophe for Democrats? Or are we dealing with a local election with local concerns? Was the recall the result of parents who were frustrated by the extended closures of schools even when the city had low coronavirus positivity and death rates? At times, the board members [had seemed more concerned with renaming schools](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0TkaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3eW9ya2VyLmNvbS9uZXdzL3EtYW5kLWEvaG93LXNhbi1mcmFuY2lzY28tcmVuYW1lZC1pdHMtc2Nob29scz9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDIxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MzY4NyZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9ODMzMTImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmIF69sQYj8rNmJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~), including one named after Abraham Lincoln, than with figuring out a plan to reopen. Should the blame be placed on the board’s decision to [change the admission policy at the elite Lowell High School](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP4QEAWh0dHBzOi8vc2Zpc3QuY29tLzIwMjEvMDIvMTAvc2Ytc2Nob29sLWJvYXJkLXZvdGVzLXRvLXBlcm1hbmVudGx5LWVuZC1tZXJpdC1iYXNlZC1hZG1pc3Npb25zLWF0LWxvd2VsbC1oaWdoLz9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDIxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MzY4NyZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9ODMzMTImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmIF69sQYj8rNmJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) from merit-based to lottery? Or is Alison Collins, the most controversial of the three school board officials who were forced out, the reason for it all? The wife of a wealthy real estate developer, she was responsible for much-publicized and seemingly anti-Asian [tweets](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0TcaHR0cHM6Ly9taXNzaW9ubG9jYWwub3JnLzIwMjEvMDMvYWxpc29uLWNvbGxpbnMtc2Nob29sLWJvYXJkLXR3ZWV0cy8_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzcmZW1jPWVkaXRfcnJfMjAyMjAyMTkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9NTM2ODcmbmw9cmFjZSUyRnJlbGF0ZWQmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTgzMzEyJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgpiBevbEGI_KzZiUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~), followed by an absurd $87 million lawsuit against the city, the school district and her fellow school board members. If you connect any one of these factors with the landslide results, you can construct various narratives about the failure of the Democratic Party — overzealous Covid restrictions, out-of-control wokeness or being oblivious to an angry class of parents who just want their kids to be able to work hard and succeed. The school board vote reflects all of these things, of course, but not in equal proportion. Parents may have been impatient with the length of the school closures, and many may point to the strangeness of the board’s obsession with renaming schools while students were sitting at home, but the Bay Area [shut down earlier](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP4QTAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm5ld3lvcmtlci5jb20vbmV3cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLWNocm9uaWNsZXMvd2hhdC10aGUtc2FuLWZyYW5jaXNjby1iYXktYXJlYS1jYW4tdGVhY2gtdXMtYWJvdXQtZmlnaHRpbmctYS1wYW5kZW1pYz9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDIxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MzY4NyZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9ODMzMTImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmIF69sQYj8rNmJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) than most parts of the country, and many residents here are proud of the region’s relatively low Covid toll. Attitudes about closures have changed, but this isn’t a city that’s exactly bursting with anti-mask, anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown sentiment. [Read the [rest of Mr. Kang’s opinion essay](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRj82DrP0TbaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8wMi8xNy9vcGluaW9uL3NjaG9vbC1ib2FyZC1yZWNhbGwuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDIxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MzY4NyZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9ODMzMTImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmIF69sQYj8rNmJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~). For more of his work, Sign up for the Jay Caspian Kang newsletter, for Times subscribers only. A wide-ranging cultural critic and magazine writer tackles thorny questions in politics and culture. 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