New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang’s wife, Evelyn Yang, went after the New York Daily News for a cartoon drawing of her husband. Yang took to Twitter, where she called the depiction of him a “racist disfiguration.”
“I can’t believe my eyes,” Yang tweeted. “To publish this racist disfiguration of @AndrewYang as a tourist, in NYC where I was born, where Andrew has lived for 25 years, where our boys were born, where 16% of us are Asian and anti-Asian hate is up 900%.”
The drawing published by Daily News cartoonist Bill Bramhall, who portrays the mayoral candidate as an excited tourist departing the Times Square subway station and a local shop owner displaying happiness that the out-of-towners have returned.
As the cartoon went viral, it caused a response by the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Victory Alliance.
“This is disgusting and wrong,” the AAPI Victory Alliance tweeted. “Every single day Asian Americans have to fight the notion that we are foreigners. We are here and we’re not going anywhere. That’s why AAPI representation like @andrewyang is so important. Do better.”
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
