Author Kenny Xu on Race Equality Targets: ‘Nobody Is Saying We Want 6 Percent Asians in the NBA’

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Author Kenny Xu on Race Equality Targets: ‘Nobody Is Saying We Want 6 Percent Asians in the NBA’ — Author Kenny Xu speaks to The Epoch Times at CPAC in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 27, 2021. The Epoch Times

Jan Jekielek

Senior Editor

Melanie Sun

3/1/2021|Updated: 3/1/2023

Amid wide-ranging efforts, from the White House to America’s top universities, to progress social equality, American-Chinese author Kenny Xu said he believes the NFL and NBA are prime examples of why artificially inflating racial equality doesn’t work in the best interests of any group.

He pointed to the two sports as representing segments of American society that have not been pressured to fill race quotas like some educational institutions.

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Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”