The FBI has released...documents from its file on [the late] US Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, some of which show the late Japanese-American lawmaker was the target of racially and politically motivated threats of violence.
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Daniel Ken “Dan” Inouye, the senior United States Senator from Hawaii and the President pro tempore of the United States Senate—making him the highest-ranking Asian American politician in U.S. history—passed away Monday, December 17, 2012. His last words were, “Aloha.”
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... the day Tiger Woods won the Masters in 1997, Fuzzy Zoeller took a lot of heat and lost sponsors for calling a then-21-year-old Woods "little boy" and urging him not to serve fried chicken and collard greens the following year. Zoeller's words are akin to Mayweather's about Pacquiao, who is Filipino ...Mayweather's ... is being treated differently because he's black... And if he were being treated honestly, black man or not, we would be hearing denunciations from Jackson, Sharpton and the NAACP. (The National Federation of Filipino American Associations provided a lead for them today.) I'm not playing devil's advocate; I'm advocating for equality—but in the true sense of the word. Whites don't hold the patent on being racially insensitive, just as blacks are not the only group of people to be discriminated against in this country ... For example, more than 250,000 Filipinos served in the United States military during World War II and were promised full veterans benefits for doing so. Yet in 1946, President Harry S. Truman, the same man who issued an executive order desegregating the military, signed the Rescission Act, essentially reneging on that promise. No school benefits, no hospital benefits, nothing. Every president since Truman treated these brave soldiers like second-class citizens. It wasn't until last year when the country finally honored its commitment to the approximately 15,000 veterans who were still alive.
Bold, mine. And, btw, that "commitment" was honored by the stimulus plan. Shout-out to Daniel K. Inouye, Democratic Senator from Hawaii.
here's the word re NaFFAA
national chairman Greg Macabenta told ESPN Tuesday they want the state athletic commissions and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to lecture Mayweather for his “racial slur” not only on Pacquiao but the entire Filipino people ... The 30-year-old Mayweather released a viral video on Youtube last week, throwing racial and homophobic low blows on Pacquiao, the boxer he supposedly wants to fight.
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photo of Filipino WWII veterans by Antonio Somera/Daguhoy Museum