monday. and just to be clear, edward bloom is a right wing activist. so, there s a lot of talk in the communities like oh, the asian american pacific islander community doesn t want affirmative action. that s not true. it s overwhelmingly supported by data from the community. absolutely. i m in his attempt, he did not come to the asian american community and say, what are the pressing issue excuse for you? he has been on a decades long crusade to try to stop affirmative action, and he even said, i finally answered asian americans. he is trying to use us as a wedge. to show some kind of division across communities of color, when, in fact, some of the best polling of the asian american communities show that 69% from asian americans support affirmative action in higher education, and that is the voice or the community where i think you are starting to see through protests, through showing up that really, i hope, will come out that we are not going to allow ourselves to be used as a