Asian Americans and their Involvement in Politics

-
Even in the early 1800s Asian American started to become involved in politics. Their used their resources to lobby for equal rights and equal access to economic and occupational opportunities.

From the early 1800s to the 1920s, over one thousand lawsuits were filed in state and federal courts by Asian Americans seeking to receive proper legal rights.

During the same period Asian Americans tried to further their political presence. The circulated petitions, conducted letter-writing campaign, published their own newspapers and magazines promoting their political cause.

They also tried to gain political gain by pairing up with non-Asian organizations. All of these cases go to show that Asian Americans are not always quiet and complacent. The Asian American community has a very clear sense of political justice, and they have demonstrated their knowledge for quite some time. And their constant fight for justice has made the American political system realize that they are very aware of the justice system, and they will stop at nothing to get that.

But the political system is not an easy one to figure out, in fact during the 1996 presidential election President Clinton was accused of accepting money from foreigners. The media quickly changed foreigners into Asians, and accused them of trying to influence United States policy to benefit their Asian countries.

Bill Clinton and his campaign were forced to return all the money they obtained. Any donor who was of Asian descent or who was any way connected with any Asian country had their contributions returned. As a result several Asian Americans entered plea bargains after they had been accused of channeling foreign contributions to the Democratic Party.

Bear in mind that it is 100% legal for permanent residents who are not yet citizens to donate money to political campaigns. It is also legal for foreign corporations to donate money so long as they donate money that is donated within the United States. And it most certainly is acceptable for Political parties to accept monetary donations. So then why did the money have to be returned to the Asian American citizens who donated to the Democratic Party led by Bill Clinton.

The worst part about the money that was donated to the Democratic campaign in 1999, was that the Asian American community was publicly slandered for the monetary contribution, especially since it was only a small section of Asian Americans that partook. Political slander went so far to say that Asians were trying to "buy the White House".

All Asian Americans are affected by the generalized slander that is accused of one or more Asian Americans. Racial profiling will continue to be part of the political every day Asian American way of life.

It is important to note that this happened over ten years ago, and since then there has not been any wrong doing in the arena of politics. Since then Asian Americans have been able to partake harmoniously in the Political spectrum of the American way of life. Just as grave injustices have been committed in the past, there have been strides to make sure something like this will never happen again.

Popular posts from this blog

What has MCA done to the Chinese community in Malaysia?

-
Image
We guess, many of you would be wondering why are we asking such question, “What has MCA done to the Chinese community in Malaysia?” Obviously, none of us would ever realize the real and terrible impact that MCA has made onto the Malaysian Chinese and if they were to see this, the definite question too would be, “done what?”, “don’t know”, “not aware”, “none of our business”, or even, “we don't want to know at all”. The inception of MCA in 1949 can be traced back from the origins of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) and its chapter in the then Malaya, which was famously known as Kuomintang Malaya (KMT Malaya). In aftermath of the Second World War and the defeat of the KMT forces in China in 1949, the KMT Malaya has began to move towards transforming its Malayan chapter into a local Chinese based organization in order to preserve its existence and long term political opportunity in this county. And this is how MCA was born in February 1949, where the party later teamed up
Read more

Perlukah sesebuah gabungan parti politik kekal secara wajib?

-
Image
Daripada keadaan politik dalam negara ini, kita telahpun dan sedang memerhati beberapa buah gabungan parti-parti politik yang terkini, iaitu Barisan Nasional (BN) yang kekal begitu lama dengan parti komponen utama Umno memonopoli semua aspek keputusan di dalam gabungan dan kerajaan yang diterajui oleh mereka. Di pihak Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pula ianya merupakan sebuah gabungan parti-parti pembangkang utama, PKR, DAP dan PAS yang bekerjasama secara longgar dan masing-masing mempunyai kedudukan yang setaraf di antara satu sama lain. Di tengah-tengah kancah cabar mencabar di antara BN dan PR, terdapat satu lagi alternatif yang kini sedang menonjol, Gabungan Kiri Malaysia (GKM) yang merangkumi gabungan parti politik bercampur dengan pertubuhan-pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) yang kini dianggotai oleh Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), sebagai peneraju utama GKM, diikuti dengan Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM), Pusat Sejarah Rakyat dan Collective Intelligence serta beberapa individu yang te
Read more

Seek for quick success and instant benefits

-
By Soong Phui Jee The people's first reaction to the SMK Sacred Heart's practice of rewarding a brand new Perodua Myvi car to the Best Teacher and Best Student of the school was, would it cause the deterioration of education? After awarding cars today, would they give diamond rings or sport cars tomorrow? Awarding such expensive gifts for students might distort the purpose of education. If children study only to receive gifts and rewards, would they understand the true meaning of studying? Would they study for themselves, or to receive material rewards? In fact, not only the above mentioned school, but many other schools nationwide have gradually tended to seek for quick success and instant benefits. For example, some of the so-called "elite schools" stress much on examination results and refuse to let students with poor results take government examinations to prevent them from pulling down the school's average grade. Shouldn't schools teach all childr
Read more