http://www.asianweek.com/2008/12/04/a-slap-in-our-face-we-can%e2%80%99t-forget-what-richardson-did-to-wen-ho-lee/#comment-15910
A Slap in Our Face: We can’t forget what Richardson did to Wen Ho Lee
December 4, 2008
Wen Ho Lee is as close as it gets in contemporary Asian Pacific American history to a mythic victim of racism in our nation.
Unlike a symbol of injustice like a Rosa Parks, Lee was no activist and did not seek to challenge society. He was merely an ordinary Asian American scientist doing his life’s work. And solely because of his race was he wrongly suspected of being the most heinous kind of criminal to democracy — a spy.
For his ordeal, Lee rarely receives the respect he deserves and now lives in quiet obscurity after being stripped of his livelihood as a nuclear scientist. To add insult to injury, some still don’t think Lee is innocent.
Meanwhile, Bill Richardson, secretary of energy in the late 1990s and the man who fingered Lee and presided over his public flogging, remains in the limelight and is now being honored as President-elect Obama’s new secretary of commerce.
That may be the ultimate injustice to Wen Ho Lee.
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