Remember Leland Stanford, who called Asian-Americans the "dregs" of "an inferior race" in his inaugural speech as California governor before it turned out that he would be absolutely dependent on their labor to finish the Transcontinental Railroad. http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/08-Stanford.html …https://twitter.com/DavidChiu/status/1126909703181651969 …
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History doesn't repeat itself, but it certainly does rhyme.
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Article undersells that aspect. <Chinese migrants Leland Stanford came to greatly admire.> <Chinese workers were often left out of the official story...And attitudes toward them soon soured, with anti-Chinese riots sweeping the country.> Substitute pogroms/lynch mobs for "riots."
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