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Facts about Voting by Mail

Posted on October 12, 2020October 14, 2020 by

As Election Day gets nearer in the US, we’re likely to encounter repeated claims by various parties, including the President, that mail-in voting is more prone to fraud than in-person voting. In light of this, I’ve created a couple of handy infographics. Feel free to share! NOTE: This information is presented in my personal capacity…

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Cultural Assimilation and Being a “Secret” Asian Man

Posted on June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 by

“To be antiracist is to reject cultural standards and level cultural difference. Segregationalists say racial groups can not reach their superior cultural standard. Assimilationalists say racial groups can, with effort and intention, reach their superior cultural standards.” — Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist I’m reading the wonderful book How to Be an…

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On Asian Privilege and a Traffic Stop

Posted on October 17, 2018October 17, 2018 by

As a Filipino American, I sometimes feel like I am surfing that edge between white privilege and being a person of color. On the one hand, I have certainly experienced racism in the past, both micro-aggressions and actual aggression. But my experience is so far from what most black and brown people experience in this…

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What Caused California’s Housing Crisis? Sophie Breaks It Down.

Posted on September 9, 2018September 9, 2018 by

My friend Sophie Rubin created this super helpful video that breaks down clearly and succinctly all the factors that play into why California, particularly the San Francisco Bay Area, has such a problem with affordable housing. I knew some of these things going into the video, but was totally floored by all the tax policy…

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Dwarf Quaker Slavery-fighting Activist Benjamin Lay is My New Hero

Posted on August 20, 2017February 13, 2019 by

The New York Times has an inspired write up about Quaker activist Benjamin Lay, “You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf.”  It really speaks to my condition, as Friends say: “Lay, a hunchback as well as a dwarf, was the world’s first revolutionary abolitionist. Against the common sense of the day, when slavery…

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May the Fourth be With You: On Fan Culture and Real World Rebellion

Posted on May 5, 2017 by

My friend DJ posted to his Facebook wall this excellent summation of why fan culture matters in an our current era of aspiring autocrats and empires. I got his permission to repost it here. Remember, when you're rolling your eyes at all the people posting about "May the 4th be with you", think about what that actually…

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Mandela art on building in Joburg

South Africa in Black and White

Posted on April 8, 2017July 28, 2020 by

I knew a little about South African politics and Apartheid before coming there. But being there in person brought home the brutality of Apartheid and the continuing challenges South Africans face as a multi-racial society. Historic Sites On our second day in Johannesburg, we visited the Apartheid Museum. The museum presents in rich and compelling detail…

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Japanese Americans at internment camp

Japanese-Americans Swing Dancing at Internment Camp

Posted on January 30, 2017January 10, 2022 by

This photo gives me all sorts of feelings as an Asian-american. There was a time – not very long ago– when people who looked a lot like me were judged as being a threat to the state by the very nature of their race and ancestry, rather than their deeds. They may have immigrated here and…

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Hidden Figures: The Liberal, Feel-good (Mostly) True Story that We All Need Right Now

Posted on January 25, 2017 by

Here's the thing about the new film "Hidden Figures." It's a bald-faced, liberal-agenda, Hollywood-ized, fictionalized, feel-good fly-over of a complicated and painful era in our nation's history. It has some of the most ham-fisted lines ever like, "Here we are, three Negro women in 1961 chasing a white police officer down the road…." And yet,…

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Message to President-elect Trump from New York Quakers: Reject Hatred and Bigotry

Posted on December 2, 2016 by

Here is the message that was communicated from New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to President-elect Donald Trump a few days ago. Although I have not attended Quaker Meeting for a very long time, I am still formally a member of the New York Yearly Meeting and the Brooklyn Monthly…

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