Evening Must-Read: Heroes of NoahSmithian Weblogging: Phil Yu

Noah Smith: Heroes of NoahSmithian Weblogging: Phil Yu:

America is in the middle of a huge, titanic, epochal change… to a fully multiracial nation…. If we’re going to come out of it as a unified nation, we’re going to have to accept the newcomers as ‘real Americans’, the way we once accepted East and South European immigrants into the fold a century earlier. Relatively few bloggers have focused on this problem, but Phil Yu has risen to the challenge. His blog, Angry Asian Man, is less angry than visionary…. Yu still alerts the blogosphere to instances of racism (and not just racism against Asians), but his blog is the place to find cool new Asian-American bands and films and artists and read the testaments of Asian-Americans. He has also spearheaded efforts to lobby the American government for a more liberal approach to immigration. And to top it all off, he posted this really cool cover of TLC’s ‘Waterfalls’. More than any other blogger, Phil Yu makes me excited about the future of America.