Posted on 09/07/2002 9:31:26 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
LOS ANGELES- Yuji Ichioka, a University of California-Los Angeles historian who coined the term "Asian American" in the 1960s, has died at the age of 66, university officials said.
Ichioka, who helped to found the UCLA Asian American Studies Center in 1969, was considered one of the top U.S. specialists on Japanese American history. He died on Sept. 1 of cancer, the Los Angeles Times said on Saturday.
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The entire concept of "asian american" is wrong. It is usually tied to an us versus them mentality, where the "us" is "asian" and "them" is "white".
But, on the other hand, what can you really expect when the Japanese Americans were stripped of everything they owned and turned into a bunch of welfare dependent, spirit-less, depressed people for three generations.
Don't you hope that heterosexual, married-texan-american, who is serving in our Oval Office continues to a healthier approach to citizenship that hyphenating every blasted adjective used to describe a citizen?
Pretty soon you'd need to describe someone's race, gender, sexual preference, and religion.
Leonard "hetero-baptist-male-Anglo-Euro-afro-asian american" McCoy.
5. Deceased americans have rights too!
4. Does a dead person have more identity as being "deceased" or being "American"?
3. You are being prejudiced against the dead and you are being anti-deceased. Don't you understand that the dead have rights too?
2. Do all cemeteries have equal access ramps and equal views? I think not!
1. Deceased americans having voting rights (especially in Democrat controlled districts)! Just look at the Chicago vote!
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