text: It's not though because this is Aja speaking from the perspective of a group she identifies with (even though she is not ethnically part of that group, she was adopted by a Puerto Rican family and raised in the culture). The point is contentious even within the community but there are definitely people that support it.  I'm a light skinned Asian (not mixed/questionably White-passing like Manila) and there's some merit to what Aja said but it's really not her place to make that statement.