Posted on 06/01/2024 2:46:13 PM PDT by karpov
MALDEN — Asian American seniors play ping pong five times a week at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist church. Another group gathers Monday nights to dance at the Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy. After years spent fitting in where they can across this city of 65,000, the growing Asian American community has no place to call their own.
That’s about to change with $1 million in funding from Congress to jumpstart the process of creating Malden’s first community center for people of Asian descent, who account for 27.5 percent of the city’s population. Malden has the third-highest concentration of Asians in the state, after Lexington (31.6 percent) and Quincy (28.9 percent), according to census data.
For Mai Du and Andrea So, founders of the Greater Malden Asian American Community Coalition, a community center has been a dream years in the making. First, it was hard to find a site, then the grassroots organization had to come up with millions of dollars in funding. They even considered asking community members to take out home equity lines of credit to help pay for the project.
“We’ve gone through all kinds of options and never would have imagined that we would get a million dollars to get started,” So said. “It’s just really exciting.”
Du, who runs the Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy, still gets emotional talking about how transformative the project will be for the Asian American community, not just in Malden but also in nearby suburbs like Lexington.
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Separate but equal?
Lived near there decades ago, Asian percentage single digits.
Sure, have Asian interest programs at the community center, ping pong, mahjong, tai chi, but no government funded Asian center as such. That’s wrong.
The most oppressed race in America is orange men.
What about them???
“Still waiting for the government to fund a community center for people of Caucasian descent.”
They are, they’re called FEMA camps.
Send your daughters to school where the Chinese girls are. They work harder.
Bttt
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DISCRIMINATION PERIOD
I thouhgt they did!? I personally tiled the mosaics in 7 County community center pools/activity areas. I thought those were all government(local)/taxpayer funded...
Our government is very willing to spend millions to keep people segregated.
Will they have krav maga and Hebrew classes or is the Asian community center just for “Asian” Asians? (For the geographically impaired, Israel is in Asia too)
Asians who have been here a while tend to be good Americans. But the (about) sixteen battalions of newcomers, mostly military aged males, will be wreaking havoc when the Beijing balloon goes up!
when do whites get ‘a place of their own’?
Some of the animals are more equal than others......not that I can blame them for wanting safety and security for their family's..
exactamente perhaps a grant but no matter how many generations are there they should have been busy building their own social & financial infrastructure.
Look at the Koreans i dont think they have taken any money fron from the feds
If you look at the Far East there are LOTS of asians
Call up Jeffie Bolkhi & see what he says...livving in one of the richest countries in Asia get him to put up their DOLLARS FROM OIL
From the videos I have seen, the Chinese crossing the border are in their mid-40's, had enough money to buy their way out of China to Ecuador and pay off the cartels, and look to be destined for illegal kitchen work in urban restaurants.
The young male soldier types appear to be mostly Africans.
Consider the sources. Most of the MSM will 86 anything that makes the Biden invasion look bad.
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