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Letters to the Editor: Japanese and Muslim Americans, Obama & Reverand Wright, He Banged
Japanese and Muslim Americans: Shared Histories
It’s history repeating itself; the chain needs to be broken (“Joined in Outrage,” Editorial, May 2). It’s really upsetting and awful what Muslim, Middle Eastern and South Asian Americans are subjected to in America today. Taking the model straight from the internment camp process is disgusting. It’s just an utter disgrace that America is using what they did to Japanese Americans and now applying it to another group. Continue reading… -
Daily Dose: 05/13/08
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> Burmese Americans try to help, but have few options
> U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono endorses Obama
> Some legitimate taxpayers’ rebates cut off by immigrant provision
> Disputes flare up among Dickinson, N.D. international students
> WA teen gets life for killing cabbie
> Religious statue stolen from Filipino center in NYC
> Philippine TV stars no-shows at $100-a-head Hawaii event
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For Asian American Males, a Slap in the Face and a Kick in the Teeth
Where are the voices of outrage? The angry letters of protest and condemnation? Why aren’t Asian Americans out on the streets, picketing and boycotting? And where are the searing editorials from the Asian community newspapers, as well as community leaders speaking out against this latest insult and injustice?
No, I’m not referring to the Olympic Torch coming through San Francisco. I’m talking about recent events showing how popular media is once again giving Asian Americans, and especially Asian males, not only a Continue reading…
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Harvard Student Wins 1st Annual Outstanding Woman of the Year Award
BOSTON — Asian Sisters Participating In Reaching Excellence (ASPIRE) announced Mihiri Tillakaratne as the grand prize-winner of the 1st Annual ASPIRE Outstanding Woman of the Year Award for female high school or college students of Asian American descent. Continue reading… -
Berkeley Law Bestows Highest Honor on Attorney Dale Minami
SAN FRANCISCO — Attorney and civil rights leader Dale Minami received the Citation Award, one of the highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, on May 2 at the Ritz-Carlton.Minami, a partner with Minami Tamaki LLP specializing in personal injury and entertainment law, is the first Asian American to receive the award. It Continue reading…
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Mineta Visits Lockheed Martin: Talks About Life in Politics and Leadership Advice
SUNNYVALE, Calif. —Former Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta addressed a crowd of approximately 400 Lockheed Martin employees April 29, offering information about his upbringing, working in the public and private sectors, and advice for people in leadership positions. Continue reading… -
SE Asian Prof. Explores Marriages
As a child, Hung Cam Thai went from Southeast Asia to the South in America, where he grew up with the help of black Catholic nuns. Now a respected professor of sociology and Asian American studies, Thai helps pioneer the largely uncharted waters of what he terms “international intimacy.” Continue reading…
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Partnering for Success
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The National Council of Asian American Business Associations and the United States Asian Business Council presented the first stop on the “Partnering for Success” multi-city tour May 2 at the Silicon Valley Capital Club. Continue reading…
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Real Estate Sales Down, Prices Up … How can that be?
DataQuick reported April 17 that the median sales price of single-family homes and condos decreased in all nine Bay Area counties, with the exception of San Francisco, increasing 0.3 percent. It also reported that the number of sales were down about 21 percent in San Francisco, while other counties were down between 32 and 49 percent. This is consistent with other sources. Continue reading…
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I agree with your comment. In most cases we are left alienated however, Asians are expected to perform well academically by the school system.
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Obama's efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Cheney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Cheney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.
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Huang Fong: You continue to one-up everyone else hereabouts. And I love it. However, forty-buck meals are now history in the starched-linen precincts of our finer-diner establishments, even as four-buck meals are barely within reach for the common working stiff.
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Frank Eng on Harvard Student Wins 1st Annual Outstanding Woman of the Year Award
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Isn't this article by the same guy who justified racism against blacks? Consider the source. People just don't get it.
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Anh: Boy!, are you EVER presumptuous. "Historic" or "cultural" "understanding: of "what it really means to be American"? Your "hubris" here surpasses that of the theoneocons and all those who would presume to be "superior.
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Dear Terry Lee: Meet Philip W. Chung. You've met? Great. Now, may I be allowed to congratulate and commend you for your open-hearted plaint? It is necessary and long overdue.
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