From: hy@alumni (Hy Lam)
Subject: Re: Misc thoughts concerning student death
Organization: University of California Society of Electrical Engineers
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 20:01:52 GMT

In article <Btt5L8.9tD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cvp47601@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Oh Dang Oh Dang ) writes:
>
>
>I am saddened by the news. Yet, I am even ANGRIER at myself and
>the majority of the vietnamese communities in the US. Racism against
>Asians is very real..yet we (Vietnameses collectively as a group) have never 
>really "touch" the subject! We go about aimlessly in our everyday lives trying
>to fit in. And all for what?? The general impression of us is still a 
>dog-eating, "rice paddies" gook! Stand up against racism!!
>

Yes, it is sad.  I was bit up once on a bus in the 10th grade just because of
my skin.  At that time, all I did was covering my head and prayed and
prayed for the beatings to stop.  When my oponent realized his hand was hurt
too, he stopped.  I never heard of him again.  The external scars on my swolen
face were gone but the internal scars remained ever since.  Not only I see the
internal scars in me but also in all people of colors.  Wait till you get
beaten up!

Why?  What does color has to do with any thing but only skin deep?  Racism is
nothing but skin thin.  Maybe men should peel off their skin and see if they
can live in peace and justice, shouldn't they, people of colors,
from black to white?  Are not all colors made up of black and white and it is
our eye that fool us?  Why, men can see better with their eyes closed.

Here's a paragraph written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during his fight
for freedom and justice against racism, not just for Black in America but for
people of all colors all over the world, in the 60's:

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THE NEED TO BE "MALADJUSTED"

     Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any
other word.  It is the word "maladjusted."  Now we all should seek to live
a well adjusted life in order to avoid neurotic and schizophrenic person-
alities.  But there are some things within our social order to which I am
proud to be maladjusted and to which I call upon you to be maladjusted.
I never intend to adjust myself to segregation and discrimination.  I nev-
er intend to adjust myself to mob rule.  I never intend to adjust myself to
the tragic effects of the methods of physical violence and to tragic mili-
tarism.  I call upon you to be maladjusted to such things.  I call upon you
to be as maladjusted as Amos who in the midst of the injustices of his
day cried out in words that echo across the generation, "Let judgment
run down like waters and righteoussness like a mighty stream."  As mal-
adjusted as Abraham Lincoln who had the vision to see that this nation
could not exist half slave and half free.  As maladjusted as Jefferson, who
in the midst of an age amazingly adjusted to slavery could cry out, "All
men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness."  As maladjusted as Jesus of Nazareth who dreamed a
dream of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.  God
grant that we will be so maladjusted that we will be able to go out and
change our world and our civilization.  And then we will be able to move
from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man to
the bright and glittering daybreak of freedom and justice.
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Though slavery is dead (?) but segregation (not enforced by government any
more(?) but by men) and racism (of skin) are still alive and still evil in
men.

A man can not by himself see the evil in him without the help of another man.

-Hy


>Just some lyrics to sum up my post.
>
>
>Fight The Power by Public Enemy
> from Fear of a Black Planet
>
>1989 the number another summer(get down)
>Sound of the funky drummer
>Music hittin' your heart cause I know you got soul
>(Brother and sister, hey)
>Listen if you're missin' y'all
>Swingin' while I'm singin'
>Givin' whatch gettin'
>Knowin' what I know
>While the Black band sweatin'
>And the rhythm rhymes rollin'
>Got to give us what we need
>Our freedom of speech is freedon or death
>We got to fight the powers that be
>Lemme hear you say
>Fight the power
>
>Chorus
>
>As the rhythm designed to bounce
>What counts is that the rhymes
>Desighned to fill your mind
>Now that you've realized the prides arrived
>We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
>>From the heart
>It's a start, a work of art
>To revolutionize make a change nothin's strange
>People, people we are the same
>No we're not the same
>Cause we don't know the game
>What we need is awareness, we can't get careless
>you say what is this?
>My beloved lets get down to business
>Mental self defensive fitness
>(Yo) bum rush the show
>You gotta go for what you know
>Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be
>Lemme hear you say...
>Fight the power
>
>Chorus
>
>Elvis was a hero to most 
>But he never meant shit to me you see
>Straight up racist that sucker was
>Simple and plain
>Mother fuck him and John Wayne
>Cause I'm Black and I'm proud
>I'm rady and hyped plus I'm ammped
>Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
>Sample a look back you look and find
>Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
>Don't worry be happy
>Was a number one jam
>Damn if I Say say it you can slap me right here
>(Get it) let's get this part start right
>Right on, c'mon
>What we got to say
>Power to the people no delay
>to make everybody see
>In order to fight the powers that be
>
>(Fight The Power)
>
>cvp@uiuc.edu


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