I respect Helen Gym for standing up the city's blatant racism against Asian-Americans.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/15/pennsylvania.schools.bias/index.html

The city was looking the other way and letting Asian-American students get assaulted left and right. They weren't punishing the assailants either.

Here's another article about it:

https://whyy.org/articles/anti-asian-attacks-at-a-philadelphia-school-led-to-landmark-ruling-over-a-decade-ago-did-anything-change/#:~:text=At%20South%20Philadelphia%20High%2C%20known,and%20outside%20the%20school%20building.

FTA:

"At South Philadelphia High, known as Southern, they entered a school community where Asian immigrants were harassed, bullied, and assaulted — behavior that school staff tolerated and sometimes abetted. On Dec. 3, 2009, more than two dozen Asian students were brutally attacked inside and outside the school building. Several were treated at hospitals for their injuries. After the attacks, Asian students organized an eight-day student boycott, forcing Philadelphia to confront the anti-Asian bias that permeated the city and its public school system."

This was actual racism.

The city was letting a racial minority group get assaulted regularly by a much larger group, and effectively swept it under the rug.

I will always respect for Helen Gym for standing up against the actual racism of the city of Philadelphia. Every other politician in the city was content to just sit back and let those Asian kids get the shit beat out of them and let the racists get away with it.

Of course the racists did get away with it in the end. None of them were ever rly punished. At least the people in charge of the city were forced to at least acknowledge the city's racism and that wouldn't have happened without Helen Gym.