This video is an excellent summary of the civil rights history of Asian Americans. Even as an attorney and student of history, I am struck by the long history and depth of seminal cases that defined many basic civil rights today that benefit all marginalized persons.
It is my hope that geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China don't fuel a new rise in these types of discriminatory laws and practices, let alone popular sentiment against people of Asian ethnicity.
I agree with the comments. I1990 has done a great job. However, there are some omissions on the background and intent of the 1965 and subsequent immigration acts that can be found in the legislative history or Federal Register. For example, the 1965 Act was conceived by JFK. His intent was to increase Irish immigration. The benefit to Chinese immigration was an unintended consequence.
This video is extremely timely. White Supremacy movements are making headlines in today’s news, but as shown in the video, this festering blight on our democratic system dates back to the very beginnings of our nation. Identifying and then rooting out the underlying causes of White Supremacy is a long and complex undertaking. I look forward to a sequel video where the contributions of modern-day Asian Americans to the American Dream can be highlighted and perhaps a third video wherein the racial slanders hurled at Asian Americans are refuted. Perhaps someday even a video about the fact that fear and ignorance of anything different is the underlying source of racism in general and White Supremacy in particular.
I've always wondered why the Asians who experienced oppression like other people of color ended up siding with and aligning with the Whites so much even though it was the Black Americans who put their lives on the line to fight for and force civil rights laws for all the people of color to benefit from laws, economic policy, education and businesses in USA. Well as an outsider this is just something I always wondered about that never added up, we never see in history any war of aggression from a Black country on an Asian country anywhere in history, but we see 50 different Wars the Whites brought on Asian countries, including dropping atomic bombs one or two times on the Asians, treating Asia like a toilet, Vietnam war, cancerous agent orange chemicals on the people, turning southeast Asia into a brothel basically, dropping all the unexploded bombs on Laos and Cambodia just to save jet fuel and still the farmers and kids get blown up even until today, treating the Asian-Americans with racism discrimination and mockery even in the movies and cartoons, so I never understood why the Asians dismissed and excuse all of that to seek friendship and approval from the Whites. Anyway, feel free to share your perspective?
Fascinating and dispels the myth that only one race has faced discrimination.
This video is an excellent summary of the civil rights history of Asian Americans. Even as an attorney and student of history, I am struck by the long history and depth of seminal cases that defined many basic civil rights today that benefit all marginalized persons.
Thank you for you kind words and encouragement Cura! We will make more videos like this in the future!
Great video! Should be viewed in the schools.
Absolutely, feel free to share it to educators and schools.
Thank you Brown. We would love to have this video viewed in schools!
It is my hope that geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China don't fuel a new rise in these types of discriminatory laws and practices, let alone popular sentiment against people of Asian ethnicity.
Thank you so much Robert! We hope so too.
Thanks I learned a lot!
I agree with the comments. I1990 has done a great job. However, there are some omissions on the background and intent of the 1965 and subsequent immigration acts that can be found in the legislative history or Federal Register. For example, the 1965 Act was conceived by JFK. His intent was to increase Irish immigration. The benefit to Chinese immigration was an unintended consequence.
Thank you so much for sharing that important information Jackson!
This video is extremely timely. White Supremacy movements are making headlines in today’s news, but as shown in the video, this festering blight on our democratic system dates back to the very beginnings of our nation. Identifying and then rooting out the underlying causes of White Supremacy is a long and complex undertaking. I look forward to a sequel video where the contributions of modern-day Asian Americans to the American Dream can be highlighted and perhaps a third video wherein the racial slanders hurled at Asian Americans are refuted. Perhaps someday even a video about the fact that fear and ignorance of anything different is the underlying source of racism in general and White Supremacy in particular.
Thank you so much for your comment and insight James!
I've always wondered why the Asians who experienced oppression like other people of color ended up siding with and aligning with the Whites so much even though it was the Black Americans who put their lives on the line to fight for and force civil rights laws for all the people of color to benefit from laws, economic policy, education and businesses in USA. Well as an outsider this is just something I always wondered about that never added up, we never see in history any war of aggression from a Black country on an Asian country anywhere in history, but we see 50 different Wars the Whites brought on Asian countries, including dropping atomic bombs one or two times on the Asians, treating Asia like a toilet, Vietnam war, cancerous agent orange chemicals on the people, turning southeast Asia into a brothel basically, dropping all the unexploded bombs on Laos and Cambodia just to save jet fuel and still the farmers and kids get blown up even until today, treating the Asian-Americans with racism discrimination and mockery even in the movies and cartoons, so I never understood why the Asians dismissed and excuse all of that to seek friendship and approval from the Whites. Anyway, feel free to share your perspective?