Today (July 13), soon after the not guilty verdict on the George Zimmerman case was announced, I am feeling ashamed of being an American. This is obviously not the greatest country in the world if a 17-year-old boy can be killed on a sidewalk while walking home from a 7-Eleven store. This young person was […]
RABBIT RAMBLINGS: A call to protest the ‘gross miscarriages of justice’
July 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Setting the record straight on ‘Allegiance’
November 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The play “Allegiance” attempts to promote sympathy for those who answered no to loyalty questionnaire questions or refused induction into the U.S. Army (aka “resisters”) by seeking to taint the reputation of those who volunteered to serve in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT), a segregated Japanese American combat unit formed in the U.S. Army […]
L.A. County repeals 1942 support for WWII incarceration
June 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County board of supervisors voted unanimously June 6 to repeal its 1942 resolution supporting the incarceration of Japanese Americans shortly after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, which led the United States to enter World War II. “To ignore this and to leave it as unfinished business is essentially to […]
Racial profiling of Chinese Americans will only hurt America
It simply boggles the mind that with an African American in the White House and an African American as the Attorney General, persecution of Chinese American scientists based on racial profiling not only has not abated but actually intensified. Professor Xiaoxing Xi, former head of the physics department at Temple University, was the latest of […]