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Andrew Yang’s Wife Chokes Up Over ‘Racist’ New York Daily News Cartoon

The Daily News cartoon depicted Yang as a tourist on a visit to Times Square.

Mairead Elordi
Andrew Yang’s Wife Chokes Up Over ‘Racist’ New York Daily News Cartoon
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Evelyn Yang, wife to New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, choked up on Tuesday as she slammed a New York Daily News cartoon depicting her husband as a tourist, calling the caricature “racist.”

“It’s not funny. It’s racist. It’s toxic,” Yang said at a press conference in Queens alongside her husband, adding that the cartoon “perpetuates the trope of the Asian foreigner.”

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