Category Archives: Filipino

Emil Amok: More on Jan. 6, 2021, or is it 1-6-21, or should that be 1621? Finding the Filipino American/Asian American in the story of our times.

Seen originally on the FANHS Museum page.

See my columns at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund site.

THIS IS A PRETTY COMPREHENSIVE VIDEO.

Emil Amok: Thoughts on the Capitol Riot, Trump, working at the Capitol, and a failed People Power manipulation by Trump

Some thoughts on the failed insurrection:

See my columns at AALDEF.

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.