POST NEWS GROUP – By Ben Jealous, President of People For the American Way and People For the American Way Foundation (Source: www.blackpressusa.com) – There is a long history of bigotry and legal discrimination that directly targeted Asian immigrants and Asian Americans. Over the past year, that hostility was inflamed by bigoted rhetoric from former President Donald Trump describing COVID-19 as the “Kung flu” and warning that if he weren’t re-elected Americans would have to learn Chinese.