Aren't Asian Pacfic Americans (APAs) accorded equal
opportunity already?  Unfortunately, no.  APAs are not accorded
equal opportunity in workplaces presently.
Equal opportunity means: "For every man, woman and
child to go as far and rise as high as their ambition and ability
will take them."  Statistics, mostly gathered by government
studies, show that AAs have only 1/3 the opportunity of all
other Americans to rise to the top in the academic world,
corporate world, the federal government.  There seems to exist
an invisible resistance to AAs' developing to the maximal of
their potentials  --  A Glass Ceiling.
Let's look at a concrete case.  A lot of our best people are
employed in universities.  Their average performance has been
outstanding.  What's their chance of rising to the top?
University administrators are recruited almost exclusively
from the ranks of faculty and professionals already employed in
universities.  Hence the ratio of [administrators / (faculty +
professionals)], broken down to races, is a measure of the
opportunity enjoyed by American citizens of different races.
Nationwide, that ratio for blacks (non-Hispanic) is 0.21.  That is,
for every 100 black faculty and professionals there are 21 black
administrators.  The ratio for Native American is 0.20; for white
(non-Hispanic) is 0.16; and for Hispanic is 0.15.  However, it is
only 0.06 for Asian American.  Get on the Web and check it out
for yourself!  Source:  Dept. of Education - <www.ed.gov/NCES/
pubs/96323.html>, Table B-1f.
The above dismal picture emerges from the supposedly
"enlightened" academic world.  The situation in the corporate
world, state and federal governments is worse.
In E-Mail 2 & 3, we present a strategy to induce the two
major political parties to help us fight for equal opportunity and
help make our beloved nation "a more perfect Union."   There has
already been progress on account of that strategy.  Behold how the
glass ceiling in the federal government is being shattered, owing
significantly to the bloc-vote organized and delivered by 80-20 in
the 2000 election.
Sincerely (members of Steering Comm., titles for ID purposes only)
Rajen Anand, Secretary, Federation of Indian-Am. Assocs.,
Tong S. Chung, Founding President & Current Chairman of the Board,
Korean American Coalition, DC chapter,
Alex Esclamado, Nat'l President, Filipino-Am. Political Assoc.,
Kenneth Fong, C.E.O., Clontech Laboratories,
Yu-Chi Ho, Harvard Univ., member of Nat'l Acad. of Engineering,
Stephen S. Ko, MD, Founder of Asian Am. Political Coalition N.J.,
Tony Lam, Councilman, Westminster, Los Angeles, California,
Michael Lin, former Nat'l President, Org. of Ch-Ams (1994-98),
Adeel Shah, Co-founder & Chairman/CEO of Telnia Corporation and
President, US-Pakistan Business Council Washington, D.C.,
Peter Suzuki, Immediate Past President, National Asian/Pacific Am.
Bar Association (NAPABA),
Henry Tang, Chair, Committee of 100,
Shaie-Mei Temple, Founding President, OCA-women New Orleans
Chapter; Strategic Consultant,
Chang-Lin Tien, Chancellor, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley (1990-97),
Chun Wa Wong, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles, Fellow, Am. phys. Soc.,
S. B. Woo, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89)
Jenny Yang, President, Assoc. of Chinese Am. Professionals; Co-founder,
Houston 80-20
* * * * * * * * * * *
80-20 is a national, nonpartisan, Political Action Committee
dedicated to winning equal opportunity and justice for all
Asian Pacific Americans through a SWING bloc vote, ideally
directing 80% of our community's votes and money to the
presidential candidate endorsed by the 80-20, who better
represents the interests of all APAs.  Hence, the name "80-20" was
created.
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