Category Archives: race

Emil Guilllermo: Miss Philippines says she’s not sharing Miss Universe crown with Miss Colombia. Says the new Miss U.: “I think it would be fairly difficult for two girls to share a crown.”

In New York  being your normal workaday Miss U., Piz Alonzo Wurtzbach  stands her ground. On national TV,  let’s people know, Miss Universe is big in the Filipinos.  Just like a Manny Pacquiao fight.  For my  my recap of the boo-boo heard ’round the world, click here.

Emil Guillermo: Filipinos know prayer resurrected Miss Philippines at Miss Universe, right? It wasn’t Steve Harvey. But why did they let it go so long before correcting? More than 2 minutes passed. That will age a beauty queen–like Miss “Don’t I look better than Sophia Vergara” Colombia.

Check out my full-take on the AALDEF BLOG.

Emil Guillermo: Donald Trump shows he’d really rather be Rush Limbaugh and not the president of the free world

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I wrote about Trump here.

And made the historical link for Trump.

This morning, Trump made the link himself.

On MSNBC Tuesday, Trump linked his immigration ban of Muslims to  Roosevelt’s classification of thousands of Japanese, Germans and Italians living in the United States during the war as “enemy aliens.”

“This is a president highly respected by all; he did the same thing,” Trump said. The nation was at war in the 1940s, he said, and it is now “at war with radical Islam.”

How’s that for an image: Trump holding up  one of FDR’s biggest miscues as some virtuous achievement.

It wasn’t.

Later, Trump clarified that he wasn’t necessarily advocating an internment camp situation, as he wouldn’t apply his harsh ban to U.S. Muslims living abroad.

“If a person is a Muslim, goes overseas and comes back, they can come back,” he said. “They’re a citizen. That’s different. But we have to figure things out.”

Well, the U.S. is still very harsh on Muslims. Just look at  Guantanamo. Trump could have called for an expanded Guantanamo approach, a lock’em up and throw away the key plan.

But that’s complicating things.

Trump’s  satisfied with just being as his critics are calling him, bigoted and racist.

And this is the man who wants to be the leader of the free world?

Emil Guillermo: “Immigration Interruptus” kept Asian American numbers artificially low for 50 years–and then the racist quotas ended and we all came in.

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I often wondered why I was one of the few Asian Americans in my elementary school pre-1965.
There weren’t that many of us due to racist immigration quotas.
The flow of immigration was stopped cold.
The few of us Asian Americans in  school were really the lucky ones.  Our parents got through the political-socio-biological constraints and were able to start families.
But when that dammed up process finally changed, we now have places like my alma mater, Lowell High in San Francisco.
Whole lots of Asian Americans.
And Daly City.
Whole lot of Filipinos.
Asian Americans will be the No. 1 immigrant group by 2065, and we have  the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act to thank for that.
It was signed into law Oct. 3, 1965.
No more  “Immigration Interruptus.”
Happy 50th Anniversary. Let’s party like it isn’t 1964.