Once the 15th passes, the confluence of National Hispanic Heritage Month and Filipino American History Month ends, and the Filipinos have October all to themselves.
Or so I thought.
October turns out to be a little promiscuous. It’s also German American Heritage Month (Oh, yeah that Octoberfest th
I am banging my gong slowly to herald the change our country is about to endure.
Even before the sex and beer issues that cloud the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, there were the issues beyond Roe v. Wade that were important to Asian Americans and gave many of us reason to dou
Fighters of racism and sexism, it’s going to take more than a week-long FBI investigation to get to the bottom of what’s becoming the Kavanaugh debacle.
At his Rose Garden media conference, Donald Trump did something Monday that shows he doesn’t truly understand what the hubbub over his Supreme Cou
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford had me at “I’m terrified.”
She read it in her opening statement. But the observation was also noted by Rachel Mitchell, the Maricopa County attorney who was hired by the Republican males of the Senate Judiciary Committee to be their prophylactic device.
They didn’t like t
It’s just been a few days since the world saw two major catastrophic weather events– in Asia and America–develop and land simultaneously.
But please don’t utter the phrase, “We got off easy.”
If you do, kindly continue to bury your head in the sand, but for fun and emphasis do switch out the sand
Pardon me for being so ebullient when that anonymous
New York Times op-ed writer heralded the Resistance Inside.
Seems like it wasn’t the cavalry to the rescue, after all.
As President Obama said himself at a speech in Illinois on Friday, these times are “not normal.” They’re “extraordinary,” and
When Richard Nixon died, I recalled writing his obit while working in Washington, DC. Here was the man who, until recently, may have been the worst president ever who considered himself above the law. But apparently, that’s like high-rise living. There’s always someone one floor above you.
Still, w
One of the biggest laughs I got on Friday was when I welcomed people to my one-man show, “Amok Monologues: All Pucked up-NPR, Harvard and more,” and referred to it as “Crazy Poor Asian.”
“Crazy Poor Asian!”
Unfortunately, many in the mostly Asian American crowd could relate. And that’s what we sho
I’m crestfallen, recovering from the news that my friend Dawn Mabalon, a tenured professor and scholar in U.S. History at San Francisco State University, specializing in Filipinos in the American Labor movement, has died.
Dawn was a bright, energetic ball of fire who took American Filipinos and U.S
For the first time, I’m doing my full show at the Manilatown Center next to the historic I-Hotel site in San Francisco on Friday, Aug. 17 at 7:30 pm. It’s called the “Amok Monologues: All Pucked Up; NPR, Harvard, and more,” and it’s not really a semi-shameless plug.
Prepping the show for the 17th h
When it comes to the future of affirmative action, look to California, where all the Asian Americans are.
Don’t look to Harvard and the lawsuit being waged against that school, which may ultimately make its way to the Supreme Court.
That case is more like a crimson-tinted red herring.
It’s being
Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Sonia Sotomayor showed how deeply divided this country is when they courageously spoke from the bench to condemn the majority 5-4 decision in favor of the Trump travel ban.
But it’s Sotomayor’s historical twist that deserves the headline as she invoked the name Ko
Orlando…Until I arrived here in rainy central Florida, I almost forgot that two years ago on June 12, Orlando was the scene of the worst case of mass gun death in U.S. history.
The Pulse nightclub, June 12, 2016. Do you even remember?
We’ve had so many other shooting incidents since then. Las Ve
Yes, we know Asian Americans are not a monolith. But pop culture is about to give us all a facelift. This is fair warning if you are one of the baby boomer Asian Americans, offspring of the early pioneer immigrants, both before and after 1965. If you were a descendent of legendary civil rights plain
From an Asian American perspective, there are certain times when we find ourselves faced with issues bigger than the concerns of our collective ethnicities–Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Korean, et al.
In other words, the Asian part is less important than the American part in our umbrella phrase of uni
Over the Easter weekend, Donald Trump was resurrecting his anti-immigrant rhetoric in tweets and off-handed comments. First, he blasted California for issuing pardons to a group that included three Asian Americans subject to deportation. Then he tweeted he’s changed his mind on DACA and that he woul
Why all the hubbub about a citizenship question in the 2020 Census?
The truth is the government already has all the information it needs.
Every ten years comes the official Census. But that doesn’t mean government workers for the next decade pass the time by twiddling an abacus.
Each year there’s
This weekend, I’ll be thinking about Peter Wang, the 15-year old from Parkland, Florida, last seen alive by his friends when he gallantly held open a classroom door for other students instead of seeking refuge himself during the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School.
For his act of courage, Wang
If you’re of Chinese background, do you ever have non-Chinese people come up to you and try to score points with a well timed “Ni hao”?
Or if you’re Filipino, do you get a “Mabuhay” or two?
According to the latest Census numbers, there are about five million of Chinese ancestry in the U.S. and ano
Stormy Daniels, Kim Jong Un, and trade war inducing tariffs? The Trump administration is a never-ending three-ring circus, where chaos is Trump’s best friend. How can the American public get a grip on any of the really big issues like gun control after Parkland, or the ongoing Russian investigations
