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Trump’s Popularity Grows Among Black and Hispanic Voters

Op-Ed by Ying Ma for The Federalist

I belong to a gym where the membership is heavily black and brown. A couple of years ago, I started wearing “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirts to some of my workouts. Whenever I did, I could not walk more than a few steps without getting a fist bump. The approval of my insult to President Joe Biden was a preview of what the polls now tell us: Support for former President Donald Trump has surged in black and Hispanic communities. 

Ever since Donald Trump came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower nine years ago, racial minorities have been told incessantly that Trump is a racist and a white supremacist. Yet many either haven’t been listening or just don’t like being told what to think. They are increasingly expressing support for Trump — publicly and raucously. 

Recent polls show that Hispanic voters favor Trump over Biden for the upcoming presidential election, while black voters, though still supporting Biden by wide margins, prefer Trump at levels not seen for a Republican presidential candidate since President Nixon’s reelection in 1972. 

To read the rest of the column, please visit The Federalist website HERE.

Photo: “President Trump Delivers Remarks at the Young Black Leadership Summit” by The White House is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.

U.S. should enter into negotiations with Russia

In the latest episode of the “National Insecurity” podcast, Ying Ma and cohosts Stephen Bryen and Doug Bandow discuss the latest updates on the Russia-Ukraine war, including incentives (or lack thereof) for Russia to enter into a ceasefire, danger of the war spilling over to Europe, implications for America and Europe should Ukraine fall, lack of evidence of impending Russian aggression beyond Ukraine, urgent need for the U.S. to enter into peace negotiations with Russia, what Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky calls a “psyop” by the intelligence community to get Speaker Mike Johnson to support Ukraine aid, and much more.

Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Photo: “President of Ukraine presented state awards to the Ukrainian servicemen who liberated the Kherson region.” by President Of Ukraine is marked with CC0 1.0.

An “America First” China Policy?

What might President Trump’s China policy look like if he were to return to the White House? Will China invade Taiwan later this decade? How can we avoid armed conflict with China in the Taiwan Straits and in the South China Sea? How should America deal with its most serious strategic adversary?

In the latest episode of the “National Insecurity” podcast, Ying Ma and cohosts Doug Bandow and Stephen Bryen discuss these and other China-related issues with Stephen Yates, senior fellow and chair of the China Policy Initiative at the America First Policy Institute.

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Former President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive in China | November 8, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

TikTok Mastered Mindless Entertainment–and Is Being Punished for It

The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted—swiftly and overwhelmingly—to ban the popular social media app TikTok unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divests ownership within six months. 

In supporting the bill, members of both the Left and the Right pointed to the risk of mass misinformation. Through TikTok, Beijing could spread Chinese propaganda to the American public. Under Chinese law, the Communist government can compel ByteDance to undertake or assist Beijing’s subversive activities. 

While this concern is legitimate, the pending legislation would do little to address the prevailing problem of misinformation on social media.

This article was published by The National Interest. To read the rest of the piece, please click HERE.

Image: “War Over TikTok” by Wesley Fryer is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Should We Ban TikTok?

The House of Representatives recently voted overwhelmingly to ban TikTok unless it is divested from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, within six months. Lawmakers worry that the Chinese government, through TikTok, could get access to vast troves of American data and spread mass misinformation to the American public.

In the latest episode of the “National Insecurity” podcast, Ying Ma and cohost Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute discuss the merits of the proposed ban, the national security risks presented by TikTok’s Chinese ownership, how best to protect the interests of the company’s 170 million users in America, and the irony of the app being popular enough to incur congressional wrath.

The episode is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and other channels. Please like and share widely. Enjoy!

Image: “TikTok on iPhone” by Nordskov Media is marked with CC0 1.0.

Should the U.S. continue to arm Ukraine?

The U.S. Senate just passed a bill to provide another $60 billion to Ukraine’s war effort against Russia. Is it in America’s national interest to continue arming Ukraine? Is Washington helping to stop autocracy and safeguard the U.S.-led world order, or is it risking nuclear confrontation with Moscow and an expansion of the war into Europe? And why has the Ukraine issue revealed such deep divisions on the Right?

In the first episode of a new foreign policy podcast, Ying Ma hosts an informative discussion with Stephen Bryen, senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and Yorktown Institute; Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the CATO Institute; and Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest.

You can listen and/or download on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Enjoy!

U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a visit to Kyiv, Ukraine on August 23, 2023. 

Diversity scam led to university antisemitism scandal

Fox News, December 13, 2023

Years of racially divisive university rules and rhetoric helped create campuses friendly to vile antisemitism.

By Ying Ma

Outrage among university donors, corporate leaders and the public has been building since faculty and students across U.S. college campuses openly and even gleefully supported the Hamas October 7 atrocities against Israeli civilians.  

The outcry reached a deafening roar after Tuesday, Dec. 5, testimony from the presidents of three of America’s top universities offered equivocation and double standards in response to congressional questioning about antisemitism on campus. Before the weekend was over, one of them, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, was forced to resign. 

Yet, many of those expressing indignation, including self-proclaimed liberals and progressives, are merely seeing years of racially divisive rules and rhetoric now fully bearing fruit.  

It is important to remember that the Jew hatred we have seen on full display was preceded — and facilitated — by the racist and hateful Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and riots of 2020; the systemically racist “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) bureaucracy; and political, business, academic and religious leaders who condone violence when committed by the so-called oppressed.  

Wealthy donors are now threatening to end their support for universities that do not forcefully combat antisemitism among the student body or faculty, with some promising never to hire the students who signed repulsive open letters condemning Israel after the Hamas attack.   

Even New York’s liberal Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer is condemning the leftist protestors supporting Hamas.  

But — where were these same people as tolerance and decency progressively went down the drain at universities and in American society in years and decades past?  

Many remained silent before egregious but common practices on college campuses, including renewed racial segregation, such as the establishment of race-based dormitories or residential centers as demanded by racial minorities, sometimes violently; shouting down of conservative speakers who dared to challenge the prevailing mindset; and antisemitic Islamic student groups, such as Students for Justice in Palestine.   

Earlier in 2023, students at Stanford Law School heckled and insulted a federal judge who was invited to speak by a conservative student group, preventing him from delivering his remarks. 

University administrators present took no action, except for one who stood up to berate the judge. Ultimately, the speaker had to be whisked away by campus police. None of the offending students faced disciplinary action. No fancy law firm demanded that they be barred from the recruitment roster.  

Meanwhile, no wealthy donor publicly chastised elite universities for cowering before BLM rioters in 2020.   

Schumer and his Democratic colleagues were eagerly supporting lawbreakers fighting so-called systemic racism. Flip-flopping former Republican presidential candidate and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney even marched with the BLM crowd. 

If the vile antisemitism at universities demonstrated how racist universities really are, it also showed that far too many who fund them have tolerated, or even encouraged, the phony DEI and grievance politics that have led to the perversity of proud Jew hatred in the 21st Century. 

When corporations bent the knee to BLM in 2020, they played a part in bringing about the current situation.  

When law firms and corporations eagerly practiced and promoted the DEI scam, which included denouncing America as a racist country while overlooking the shameful behavior of self-proclaimed social justice warriors, they played a part.  

When the Democratic Party gave prominent billing to unabashed antisemites like Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (whose reported ties to the Muslim Brotherhood are simply ignored), it played a part. 

This complicity helped to radicalize an entire generation of young people who think that violence in pursuit of “social justice” is perfectly fine. If an “oppressed” group (Blacks) and their White, leftist allies burning down Wendy’s and ravaging American cities to end “systemic racism” is justifiable, why isn’t it justifiable for another “oppressed” group (Palestinians) to commit acts of terror and kill innocent Israelis? In fact, young Americans chanting Palestinian slogans are arguing exactly that.  

Wall Street financiers, law firms, and others who have recently condemned those who espouse antisemitism may be late to the party, but their involvement is much needed.  

Returning America to the right course requires renouncing all grievance and identity politics forcefully, and there are no better people to do so than those who donate money and provide jobs. 

Decent Americans can only hope that the current awakening will lead to lasting resistance to all forms of hate — including that which has been justified and perpetuated in the name of social justice. 

This column was originally published by Fox News.

Image: Harvard University Widener Library, by Joseph Williams, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.

Not Racist to Want to Be Safe

November 1, 2023, Lecture at UC Berkeley

Ying Ma recently delivered a lecture on crime and anti-Asian violence in Oakland, California. Hosted by the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women, the lecture took place before some 300 undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).

Ms. Ma shared her story of growing up amid rampant crime in inner-city Oakland, and echoed a call made by the NAACP Oakland branch over the summer for policies that would allow residents to live peacefully and safely.

Ms. Ma applauded the NAACP chapter for forcefully condemning the city’s “intolerable” public safety crisis and failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police. “There is nothing compassionate or progressive about allowing criminal behavior to fester and rob Oakland residents of their basic rights to public safety. It is not racist or unkind to want to be safe from crime. No one should live in fear in our city,” the chapter stated.

In her lecture, Ms. Ma cited statistics of rampant crime in Oakland, denounced the hypocrisy of political leaders who ignore anti-Asian violence when they cannot blame it on white supremacy, and emphasized the need to “fight crime in general, for everybody.”

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Ms. Ma last delivered a lecture to undergraduate students at UC Berkeley in the spring of 2018, when she addressed the controversial issue of immigration.

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Antisemites on Campus

Fox News, November 21, 2023

American colleges have been hotbeds of racial grievance and enablers of violence since the 1960s. 

It should come as no surprise, then, that college students and professors are now celebrating terrorism and threatening Jewish students on their own campuses. Just on Thursday, the Department of Education announced that it is investigating five schools across the country for antisemitism.           

Some of the most explicit violent threats have materialized at Cornell, my alma mater and one of the schools under investigation. Last month, a 21-year-old student, Patrick Dai, declared his intent to “shoot up” a kosher dining facility on campus. He was quickly apprehended, and it seems that Dai was suicidally depressed and perhaps not of sound mind. 

Meanwhile, Cornell students who are of sound mind celebrated Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli women, men, children, babies, the elderly and entire families. A Cornell professor called the butchery “exhilarating.”

Cornell president Martha Pollack deserves credit for unequivocally condemning Hamas, antisemitism and those at the university who glorify “the evilness of Hamas terrorism.” Yet, this is the same woman who couldn’t bring herself to denounce the Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters who burned and terrorized American cities for months after the killing of George Floyd. 

When I expressed my dismay to the Cornell Alumni Affairs Office, it sent me multiple statements issued by Pollack that unwittingly offered further evidence of her deafening silence before the crimes of the racial grievance mob: “We are ashamed of the injustices that are perpetrated in our country, every day, against people of color,” Pollack said in June 2020. 

This statement was followed by an announcement of racial justice initiatives, including zoom sessions on “institutional racism and the context of the current protests,” promotion of research on “matters that relate to systemic racism, colonialism, bias and inequity,” and mandatory training for staff on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). 

To continue reading this column on the Fox News website, please click HERE .

Freedom vs. Socialism

Western Women’s Summit, October 13, 2023

Ying Ma recently spoke on “Freedom vs. Socialism” at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California. The lecture took place as part of the Western Women’s Summit sponsored by the CBL Center for Conservative Women, a national organization that prepares young women for effective leadership and promotes leading conservative women.

To watch the lecture, please click HERE or use the YouTube player below.