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Evelyn Yang called the New York Daily News cartoon of her husband a ‘racist disfiguration’ on Twitter- The image by artist Bill Bramhall depicts Andrew Yang as a tourist walking out of the Times Square subway stop as shopowners say: ‘The tourists are back!’
- On Sunday Yang said that subway station was his favorite in the city
- Many reacted on social media with shock, saying the cartoon pushed racist stereotypes of Asian Americans as foreigners
- The controversy came amid a recent spike in anti-Asian hate crimes nationwide
- Yang has recently faced criticism for being ‘out of touch’ with the city he wants to represent as mayor
By PETER BELFIORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 17:58 BST, 25 May 2021 | UPDATED: 01:48 BST, 26 May 2021
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang’s wife has slammed the New York Daily News for publishing a cartoon she described as a ‘racist disfiguration’ of her husband.
Evelyn Yang took to Twitter on Monday to attack the cartoon by artist Bill Bramhall, which depicts the Democratic candidate as an excited tourist exiting the Times Square subway stop, with a pair of memorabilia shop owners happily exclaiming: ‘The tourists are back!’
‘I can’t believe my eyes,’ Evelyn wrote. ‘To publish this racist disfiguration of @AndrewYang as a tourist, in NYC where I was born, where Andrew has lived for 25 years, where our boys were born, where 16% of us are Asian and anti-Asian hate is up 900%. #StopAsianHate.’
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