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Oklahoma State Senator David Rader is under fire for referring to Asian American relatives as ‘yellow families' twice during an official hearing - then trying to defend himself.
Rader, a GOP senator, used the term – widely acknowledged as racist - during an October 20 interim study on racial inequality, Oklahoma’s News 4 reported.
Audio footage posted online captured dialogue between Rader and Oklahoma Policy Institute criminal justice policy analyst Damion Shade.
‘…Well into your presentation did you go to yellow families?’ Rader said. ‘You left yellow families out for quite a while.’
Shade interjected, saying: ‘You mean Asian Americans?’
Oklahoma State Senator was recorded calling Asian American families 'yellow families' during an October 20 interim study on racial inequity
Replied Rader: ‘You use black term, white term, brown term so I was just gonna jump in there with you.’
Rep. Cindy Munson – the first Asian American elected to the state legislature – called Rader out on his language.
‘I’m Asian American, not yellow,’ she tweeted. ‘The language used by the Senator is highly offensive and unacceptable.
'For my fellow colleagues to be so unaware of the words they use and
