I’ve talked about the lack of diversity in movies and TV forever in my pieces on this blog. And though the Oscars are once again all-white and deserving of our ire, Asian Americans of Filipino descent have reason to cheer at least for network television.
You can add Vincent Rodriguez III as a Filip
State of the Union addresses are usually more “I have a list,” than they are “I have a dream.”
But for this last go-round for President Obama, his list was shorter than normal, and the dream part was much larger.
And this comes from a list-worthy president, whose accomplishments were far greater t
I hate guns. But I hate wimpier attempts at gun control more.
And President Obama’s latest attempt is so modest, so restrained, it hardly makes the NRA quake in its boots.
Even the president admitted, it’s hardly a conspiracy to take away anyone’s guns. It’s really just a first step to a relativel
In 2015, is there a bigger story for Asian Americans than Islamophobia?
What? You’re not Muslim? Aren’t you a big-beach-umbrella-Asian American? You don’t have to like sand.
What about a golf umbrella?
It amazes me how I still hear comments from people who should pick up a history book and unders
Next to Santa getting stuck in a chimney due to an overly large body part, can one imagine a tragedy worse than what unfolded live at the Miss Universe Pageant on the Sunday before Christmas?
Oh, you didn’t see it? You, the sane one, above it all, who doesn’t partake in such light bon-bons as beaut
If the fifth Republican debate made you feel fearful and anxiety ridden, here’s something to celebrate instead.
On Dec. 17, 1943, 72 years ago this week, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Magnuson Act, which repealed the Chinese Exclusion Laws. They were those nasty laws that came out of hate
It’s a coincidence that the President should give his standup Oval Office terrorism talk on the eve of Pearl Harbor Day, Dec.7, the day that lives in infamy.
Unless you’re Asian American, of course, because Dec. 7 simply started the clock that would bring us to Infamy Day’s domestic companion momen
As the investigation continues in the San Bernardino mass shooting case, I’m wondering if the search for a hard terrorist connection will result in the general terrorizing of innocent Muslim Americans.
And if anyone is wondering about the innocent South Asian American child left behind by the two S
Even on Sunday, I was still in a post-Thanksgiving Day stupor–watching football with the sound turned down. But when the news came on, I was wide awake.I saw a picture of a woman who was unmistakably Asian. She was one of the three victims of the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado: Jennifer Mar
Does it feel like 1942 to you yet?
America, if you haven’t noticed, isn’t feeling like itself these days.
Instead of large, gracious and visionary–the bastion of freedom and liberty—our country and its leaders are feeling puny and small. Donald Trump “Put up a Wall” small.
And it all changed on N
For Asian Americans, two issues always give us the moral high ground: the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans and the fight over equity pay for Filipino American veterans of WWII.
But just because you have the moral high ground doesn’t mean you are guaranteed victory.
That’s been true for the
I’m still trying to understand the events of this week in the red part of the blue state, California.
The news was jarring on Wednesday morning. A stabbing at UC Merced? Is that Berkeley? No, more like three hours away. Merced is in the deepest part of the least populated and most underserved part
If you had a choice, who would you rather be–longtime criminal Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow or San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee? Not just for one devilish day on Halloween, but in real life.
If you need help, here’s Ed Lee in Giants drag last year in San Francisco’s World Series parade.
This year, the Ne
On Sunday, California celebrates the first statewide Larry Itliong Day, honoring the Filipino American farm worker labor leader on his 102nd birthday.
And what a way to start the final week of October, as Filipino American History Month winds down to a close. Add the coincidence that the Mets are i
Nick Kristof’s column reframing Asian Americans as the “model minority” caused quite a stir last week. And the New York Times op-ed star’s response published on Facebook probably won’t win over his many critics.
I wasn’t sold. (See my original column in response to his here).
Let me just say, hi
When the presidential candidates square off and debate in this campaign, I hope they don’t think Asian Americans are such “success stories” they can simply write us off when it comes to public policy.
And I hope someone doesn’t point to us and say, Asian Americans are the “good example” or, heaven
With the help of the Pew Research Center’s new data analysis, I have seen the future and indeed, it is all about us.
When I’m 100 or so, I fully expect my Filipino nurse/caretaker to cheer me up with the salutation: “We’re No. 1, Mr. G!”
Finally.
That would be the year 2055, when Pew says Asian A
As I child, I remember hearing the news about the presidential campaign of 1960.
People made a big deal of the fact that John F. Kennedy–the Democrat running against Richard Nixon–was Catholic.
Like there was something wrong with that?
Apparently back then, yes. It didn’t even occur to me that bi
There’s a reason why you won’t see an Asian American on the main tier of CNN’s GOP debate. Or any presidential debate in the near or distant future.
Republican or Democratic, it doesn’t matter. Most people who see an Asian American simply don’t see “president.”
Even with Donald Trump lowering the
If you’re an American Filipino, an Asian American foodie, or anyone who relishes fresh, local food—before you take another bite, take the time to remember who picked it. Then look up to the skies and thank the Filipinos in the fields of California who brought about fairness, civil rights, and social
