Some thoughts on the failed insurrection:
IF YOU WANT TO SEE HOW THE MOB AND LYNCHING ARE INTER-RELATED, NOTE THAT “#HANGMIKEPENCE” WAS TRENDING ON TWITTER. Filipinos were lynched and murdered in the Jim Crow parts of California in the 1930s. On Jan. 6, 2021, insurrectionists were looking for the vice-president whom they regarded as a traitor.
Video of the mob chanting “hang Mike Pence.” pic.twitter.com/K4EcKK2rab
— American Times Film (@ExportedFromMI) January 9, 2021
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OK, maybe next year we’ll drop a Kulintang gong!
Here’s a New Year’s Greeting….
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Lots to binge watch this week. And there’s more to come…
This one on vaccines and the virus–a conversation with Jelissa Cummings, a health care administrator and the FANHS Museum president. Plus more on “This Week in Filipino American History.”
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