You've provided us with a moving life narrative and family history, remind, one similar to that of many of my allies in my early days in the NDP.
But at the end of the day, your logic says that it is not only unproblematic but inclusive and emancipatory for the party to produce ads congratulating its Chinese candidates for their ability to balance the books of a laundromat, its Filipina candidates on their ability to balance the budget while providing childcare, etc. Fundamentally, your logic would accuse me of "pigeonholing" American blacks if I objected to an an ad depicting a grinning Barack Obama helping out at a cotton or watermelon harvest.
Reinforcing images that have helped to perpetuate and structure the oppression of groups is a highly problematic move. There are plenty of black farm labourers in the US whose experience the hypothetical Obama cotton harvest ad might describe or speak to to this very day. But that doesn't make reinforcing those images a good idea.