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The town next to Monterey is doing a festival called Good Ol’ Days. I wonder if those good old days include the days when they burned down the Chinese villages to take over the fishing business; or the good old days when white people dressed up as Chinese people.. that only ended.. in 2022

Can you tell I don’t love this town at all haha

https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/news_blog/breaking-the-feast-of-lanterns-board-votes-to-end-the-pacific-grove-tradition-forever/article_9438180e-912e-11ec-be17-1bd1fb211bba.html

#Monterey #AAPI

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Not lost on me that as birthright citizenship is being challenged today, it was because of Wong Kim Ark that we have it at all.

It’s AANHPI month, which we are celebrating at work. I complain these terms are arbitrary (and they are) but also they think we are all the same anyway.

While I can’t do a ton about national legislation, I can do a lot in my community. As an East Asian person, making space for South, Southeast and other Asians and NH (Native Hawaiian) and PI (Pacific Islander) people is absolutely what I want to do. I’m helping to organize some activities at work that spotlight other cultures in our alphabet soup.

Also RIP Henry Fuhrmann, whose exhortation to drop the hyphen in Asian-American vastly expanded and included people who can consider themselves Asian American. Undocumented people. People who don’t yet have citizenship, or won’t, or can’t.

#AAPI #AANHPI #14thAmendment #Birthright #Immigration