Tag Archives: hmong
My New Year column written for the JACL’s Pacific Citizen newspaper
I’m the chair of the editorial board of Pacific Citizen, the national newspaper of the JACL. Below is my column in the New Year’s issue of the PC. I wanted to post it here and also add even more current concerns given President Trump’s rocky first three weeks, his eyebrow-raising relationships with world leaders (including […]
It never stops: Minneapolis radio station’s racist parody stereotypes Hmong
Via Angry Asian Man: Look at this nice-looking, monochromatic morning show team and tell me you’re not surprised that they came up with a racist parody of an Eric Clapton song that stereotypes the Hmong, a population that’s concentrated in the Twin Cities area. I dare you to listen to the song and not be […]
Minneapolis rally to announce Supreme Court case over police brutality in the death of 19-year-old Fong Lee
The family of Fong Lee, a Minneapolis Hmong teenager who was killed in 2006, is holding a press conference and rally this weekend to announce they’re taking the fight for justice to theSupreme Court of the United States. They say that Lee, who was 19 years old when he was shot by a Minneapolis Police […]
Mee Moua next up on visualizAsian.com’s AAPI interview series
A couple of months ago, when Erin gave a training workshop for young Asian Americans at the Rise Conference in Denver, she asked the assembled youths their ethnic backgrounds. One woman stod up and said she was Hmong. She said all hger life, she’s had to explain her heritage when people ask “What’s a Hmong? […]
‘Gran Torino’: Clint Eastwood among the Hmong
Clint Eastwood, who looked at one of the most famous battles of World War II through the eyes of doomed Japanese soldiers in the 2006 film, “Letters from Iwo Jima,” is now lookng at Asian Americans and racism in an upcoming movie, “Gran Torino.” Eastwood plays a racist Korean War veteran and retired Ford factory […]
