wonderful post, I never thought about the lack of a "grievance industry" for Asians in America, but they do not have that crutch of "guilt" used by blacks for the years of slavery although I would imagine the lives of the Chinese who came here to work on the railroads was not much better.
If you think about it through the long range eye of world history, just about everyone's ancestors were someone's slaves at some time. The Gauls and celts were slaves to the romans, greeks and Persians, many south American tribes were slaves to the more dominant incas, maya and Aztecs etc etc etc, yet you only have the American blacks still whining about slavery that happened generations ago.
Maybe I, of Irish and german ancestry, should seek reparations from the Italian government since my ancestors were undoubtedly slaves of some roman at some time...
Until the blacks in America (and not all black here now were descended from blacks who were slaves in the south) can disabuse themselves of the idea that somehow they alone were the subject of slavery as a class or race, they will remain self-exiled bitter victims of an imagined singular grievance that entitles them to some special consideration. they need to get over themselves and have a little more faith in what their hard work could accomplish rather than gripe to get something for an ancestor's non-particular experience.