re: #283 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
That came up in the documentary “The Search for General Tso”: the reason the Chinese opened so many restaurants and laundries was because they were forbidden by law to take wage-earning jobs.
Thanks for the info. Sometimes I tend to think of discrimination as literally black and white. I forget that this country’s racism impacted other minorities including Asians (who are mostly now referred to as the “model minority” as opposed to Blacks).