(CNN) -- A week ago, on feel-good Super Bowl Sunday, TV viewers in the U.S. state of Michigan were subjected to a racist campaign ad sponsored by former Representative and now-Senatorial candidate Pete Hoekstra. The ad, which suggests that his opponent, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, spends too much government money, shows an Asian woman riding a bicycle in a landscape of rice paddies. "Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs," says the native Californian actress in a mock Chinese accent while addressing "Debbie Spend-It-Now." Hoekstra also appears, saying at the end, "I approve this message."China -- and connections to it -- have been used to stoke fear in U.S. election, Liu writesTwo deaths have spurred Asian American lawmakers to demand hearings on hazing in militaryAgainst all of this, Jeremy Lin has vaulted himself to stardom, Liu writesHe is the NBA's first U.S.-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent
Hopefully one day, Americans of _ descent will no longer be seen as foreigners, economic competition or anything less than equal Americans.