I’m a Southeast Asian American educator. My community will not be weaponized against affirmative action.

I am from district Nha Be in Vietnam, just a bit outside of Saigon. 

I immigrated to Minnesota with my two older brothers when I was 8 years old. My oldest brother arrived as a refugee with nothing and worked as a waiter to save up money for my parents’ plane tickets. In my family’s first house in Saint Paul, Minnesota, we rented out the top floor with a…