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Letters to the Editor

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Finding Strength

Dear Editor: I just wanted to thank you for writing the story on Peter Dung Nguyen, “An Unsettled Death,” (July 20). Nguyen was a friend of mine from high school and it hurt not only to see him leave us, but to see that after his death, his family is not getting the support it needs to solve this murder. Thank you for all that you have done, letting others know about this unfortunate incident. Hopefully the family gains the support it needs, and the strength to go on by knowing that others care.

My Lam
via-email

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Earning the Asian American Vote in S.F.

Dear Editor: I strongly support your editorial and the excellent article, “The API Vote and District Elections,” (July 20) by Samson Wong, regarding outreaching to encourage API voting. I would however hope that all voters evaluate the candidates for Board of Supervisors on their qualifications and merits.

As a life-long resident of the Sunset district with over 20 years of business experience, 15 years of political experience, a track record of integrity and a strong sense of family and community, I hope to earn the support of my neighborhood API voters.

Ron Dudum
candidate for District 4 Board of Supervisors

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The Voice of the Voiceless

Dear Editor: In response to your coverage of the plans to build a ball park stadium in Philadelphia’s Chinatown, (“Chinatown Threatened by Gnetrification,” June 22), we at Asians for Mumia/Jericho stand behind the community in their fight against the proposal spearheaded by Philadelphia Mayor John Street.

As the “voice of the voiceless,” Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks for all those who are victimized and oppressed. Mumia has written before about the indifference with which the political establishment has taken over and torn apart the neighborhoods of people of color.

In reference to an incident in which a black grandmother denied police entry to her home during the city’s crackdown on drug dens, and in which her home of 23 years was subsequently torn down by police, Mumia said, “There is an underlying indifference with which black lives, property, aspirations are treated by the political elite. One would be hard pressed to find this degree of destructive nonchalance utilized in a neighborhood where a white grandmother lived.”

To locate the stadium at its proposed location—12th and Vine Streets—is a disrespect for the Chinese culture, and is an excessive lack of consideration for the individuals that make up that community, especially since questions of the project’s practicability and profitability are raised by residents.

In opposition to the for-profit forces that strive to subdue Asians and other people of color, Asians for Mumia/Jericho lends our voices in protesting the plans to build the new stadium in Chinatown.

Asians for Mumia/Jericho
via-email

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What’s All the Ruckus About?

Dear Editor: This letter is in regard to “Cartoon Seeped in Ethnic Stereotypes Say Critics,” (July 27). I pulled up Icebox.com’s website just to see what the ruckus is all about, and quite frankly, I loved the cartoon featuring Mr. Wong! And I am Asian American!! How’s that! Being a third generation Chinese American I am baffled and embarrassed by how the majority of Asian Americans fit the stereotype portrayed in Mr. Wong. Where are all the Asian AMERICANS? I hate to say it, but I myself love to mock FOBs (Fresh-Off-the-Boats) every single chance I can get. They perpetuate and deserve the stereotypes of mainstream America, making it harder for American born Asians to assimilate into the mainstream.

However, it is puzzling how the executive management of Icebox.com are mostly Jews, the most persecuted ethnic group on the face of the earth. Are they exacting some sort of revenge against us Asians? I wonder seriously if they would ever produce a cartoon denigrating Jews as Mr. Wong does Asians? Additionally, what would happen if they aired a cartoon depicting African American stereotypes. All hell would break loose.

Christian H. Low
via-email

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Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right

Dear Editor: It is really sad to see people spend so much time justifying doing what is wrong by comparing their wrongdoings to other wrongdoings.

Animal rights and human rights are different issues and the subject here is animal rights.

It is time to wake up. In the 21st century, people are so much more aware that human beings are not the only ones with emotions and feelings. There are other creatures on earth that deserve to live a happy, healthy life as much as we do.

Perry Yee’s letter, “Western Culture Equally Barbaric,” (July 13) in which he argues about the cruel slaughter of farm animals in the United States, is pitiful. Practicing cruel methods to kill live animals for food consumption in San Francisco Chinatown shouldn’t be condoned or allowed just as it shouldn’t be under any other circumstances.

What kind of mentality is that? If it is a wrong, it is a wrong. Compassionate people and animal rights activists are protesting all cruelties to animals everywhere. There have been many protest actions taken against cruelties to farm animals, animals used for entertainment and those used for experimentation, etc., so why should the San Francisco Bay area be excluded?

Vicky Ho Lynn
San Francisco

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