The asians' success isn't aligned with the lißs' narrative of oppression and thus isn't helpful for their political cause.railroad labor, Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese internment... doesn’t compare to slavery, but still a strong claim to oppression
Railroad labor: employment is bad? how does that make sense?
Chinese Exclusion Act: reduce competition by limiting the arrival of new Chinese laborers
Japanese internment: bad but affected only the Japanese, and was short-lived
By this logic, sharecropping wasn't bad (it was).