February 23, 2008
I've never seen Denver's Asian American community rally so quickly around an issue like they have around the botched satire, "
If it's war the Asians want... It's war they'll get", that ran on the website of
The Campus Press, the University of Colorado's venue for budding journalists.
There's been a blizzard of emails flying around town from groups and individuals, outraged postings (including
mine as well as Joe Nguyen's
commentary on
AsiaXpress), and TV and print media news reports.
A collective of APA students who've organized a Facebook group called
Colorado Asian American Organizations organized a meeting yesterday at Denver University, where about 40 people showed up. Erin attended, and also sent out notices to some of the local media, so there were TV crews from several stations on hand to cover the discussion. Attendees included not just students, but community activists, older APAs and also African Americans and Latinos.