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‘I’m not prejudiced or anything like that’

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This is what unconscious racism sounds like. (2 min, 30 secs to 9 min)

https://emory.kfjc.org/archive/afa/afa_06e.mp3

Nip Tuck: Cupertino. Welcome to Radio Free America.

Caller: Hello. I wanted to know your feelings on the infiltration of Asians in the Bay Area that are taking jobs and schooling away from people that have been paying taxes for a number of years.

Nip Tuck: Okay. Well, Caller, let me first get you to define what we mean by “infiltration by Asians.” Are you talking about immigrants?

Caller: Yes.

Nip Tuck: Legal immigrants?

Caller: Uh, yes.

Nip Tuck: Okay, well if somebody is a legal immigrant, and they are in fact working for a living, aren’t they if fact paying taxes?

Caller: Yeah, but uh, let’s say… let me give you an example. You know, if I go to sign up for a college class … not exactly legal aliens but also illegal aliens signing up for school and taking the place of a class that maybe I wanted to take. And here I am paying taxes and working hard on the side and not getting out of it what I think I deserve. I’m not prejudiced or anything like that (italics mine).

But uh, I think, uh, that in fact I heard that the US government has determined that the San Jose area is completely saturated by new coming Asians, and it’s becoming out of control.

Dave Emory: Well if the situation really bothers you, you could always move to Asia.

Nip Tuck: (laughs) Take up the empty space left behind…No, Caller, I have to deal with this in fairly serious manner. First of all, when they do wind up in the workforce, they’re usually taking jobs no-one else wants. They’re paying taxes that they can’t ever collect refunds on, because they’re illegal, and most of them will never get involved with any kind of civic activity – like welfare, or school, or anything where they have to show documentation, like a social security number the great fear in refuge communities and illegal immigrant communities of being exposed. So, I think you have to be very careful, Caller, to find out what the truth of these things are before you succumb to what I consider to be a campaign of rumors without substantiation.

Caller: I can give you a really quick example. I was privileged to be signed up in a county-funded schooling project – job training for low-income people. I’d worked part-time all summer, so I qualified, and this particular situation was that they had had to fill their quota of Asians … and they picked about 25 students – four Asians – and the Asians were the first ones to drop out because of the language barrier. They couldn’t handle the class and now these spaces, which I consider pretty valuable are now gone because…

Nip Tuck: Caller, I don’t see the connection there at all…