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Emil Amok: The Smithsonian names Theo Gonzalves interim head of Asian Pacific American Center; plus, more police incompetence, and how low white pundits will go to deny Asian American hate crimes. It’s Emil Amok’s Takeout for 4/12/21. Watch/Listen now!
Check out my columns on the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund site.
And listen to Emil on The PETA PODCAST.
Emil Amok: Why Destroy The Best Thing in Public Education? Addressing Equity and Diversity at SF’s Lowell High In A Way That Doesn’t Hurt Us All.
I’m an alumnus of Lowell, a San Francisco native, and I hate what they want to do to Lowell High. It was more important to me than going to Harvard.
My op-ed piece in the SF Chronicle on the proposed lottery for admissions to Lowell High.
I say it’s a bad gamble.
Read why.
A lottery is about luck. Let’s be intentional about fixing racism in the schools. I mentioned some ways it could be done while keeping Lowell an academic school. But that would take some leadership and thought.
I talk about it here in this video:
Emil Amok is Emil Guillermo: Here’s more on the U.S. soldier David Fagen, the African American who became a Filipino Freedom Fighter. A true “Insurrecto,” Fagen knew what it meant when his U.S. commanders called Filipinos the “N-word.” They were fighting words. So, of course, he switched sides.
My Emil Amok’s Takeout talks to Professor Daniel Phil Gonzales about David Fagen, the African American Buffalo Solider who deserted during the U.S.-Philippine War to become a Filipino “insurrecto.”
