happy new perhaps everyone I want to
invite all of you to taking a few deep
breaths and feel the movement of Chi
at age 16 committed karma kidnap in the
kadhi rodney was trying convicted as an
adult and sent to the same Clinton state
prison to serve a life sentence people
in the prison system actually call it
Disneyland because of all the
but at first glance you may thought that
I’m engineering a tech entrepreneur or
maybe even a local politician this is
what the model minority myth has led us
to believe whether consciously or
unconsciously the myth has lead you to
believe that Asian Americans generally
work and study hard put their heads down
grind away until they make it but only
that the midpoints the supposed to
assess of the asian-americans and calls
upon other minority groups to do the
same deal ideations don’t complain how
society let’s tell you at that hand
because in America if you work hard you
will achieve the dream as someone who
had spent 21 years of my life
incarcerated what I want to tell you
today is the model minority myth is in
fact a myth and that is a barrier to
progress that should be removed in the
history of the Asians in the United
States of America two of the most
notable discriminatory laws what the
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and
expected for the nine zero six six the
Japanese internment 1942 the Chinese
Exclusion Act was the first law to
target a per than a specific ethnic
group from immigrating to the US the
substantiated fear that Chinese
immigrant chicken of a white people’s
jobs motivated govern the past this
racist law the Chinese was barred from
entering the United States until 1943
exactly for the nine zero six six
allowed the US government
to force approximately 120,000 Japanese
Americans into concentration camps
because of an irrational fear that these
Americans pose a national security
demand after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
then in the mid sixties sociologist
William Peterson point of the term model
minority to depict Asian American
achievement in spite of the historical
modernization that they have experienced
by the only government it’s true the
many Asian Americans who had mixed
sacrifices and what hard to overcome the
traumatic experiences and fought for
their place in America but Peterson’s
model minority concept sells to capture
there are many Asians that were
successful but yet knowing the fact that
them also many groups of Southeast Asian
refugees who had fled their country to
come here with our time to their names
they’re thrown into a cycle of forced
migration poverty and for many
individuals crime which can lead to
deportation just this month 43 Cambodian
refugee has set roots down this country
with deported and separated from their
family does this sound like a motto
minority but so what why should we make
a big deal about half true for the most
part things a group of people in a
positive light
this myth is harmful first the model
minority myth segregates
API is internal in 2016 California
Assemblyman Otto von banthas a b-17 26
accounting for health and education API
Democratic side caused a rift in the
asian-american community after to
disaggregate Asians into subgroups
promoted community tension one who
claimed that this was unfair because is
to punish certain Asian groups for being
successful while the other side claim
that is a matter of collecting accurate
data to provide benefits to the medias
it’s still more like battle among
sibling the second way the myth is
harmful
that is cause H is internalized the myth
perpetuated coach machine the constant
fear of being tolerance for
discrimination and the idea that one is
not American enough pressures the Asian
American unity to live to specific
standards furthermore its noise a
culture of shame that’s ever-present in
many ancient cultures so 14 years my
mother hid the fact that I was in prison
from our relatives and family friends
for fear losing face my grandparents
passed away without knowing why I hadn’t
visited them for over a decade
shame culture discourages open dialogue
within community which least members
been shown when they need to help the
most
this leads to the third way amid
discontent when we look at AP is
affected by mass incarceration and
deportation there’s always no culturally
competent services and resources to help
change their lives that’s the half a
percent of the funding public dollars
posted support API organizations and
issues Asian Americans are not abou who
had thought to have issues in our
community because the stereotype that we
are all successful and of course we
usually don’t have this ABI the data to
justify resource because we are all
lumped together the mother minority men
has become a invisible powerful barrier
removing the myth may seem like an
impossible task and I submit to you
it’s a matter of knowing your Chi the
cheetah I’m speaking of is not just the
breath and the life force that
sustaining our lives his culture history
and identity when I stepped foot in
prison I was lost I was a teenage
immigrant who did not understand how to
read or write English
I was uneducated and low self-esteem and
but it will sell until I learn how to
read and write and think critically that
was empowered to start my path to
healing culture if I don’t understand
the richness of my culture and the
culture of others I will not be able to
appreciate our commonalities and embrace
our differences and if I can understand
the culture of shame that I be able to
understand the barriers that stand
between api’s and solution to our
troubles history from – that case of
imprisoning I was forced to find my
roots I read and read and now I read and
read if I don’t understand the history
of the model minority myth then I will
not be able to appreciate the sacrifices
and the cry that many api’s have and
become successful in the same way I will
not be understanding the newest
Southeast Asian immigrants who fled
their war-torn country and came here
with post-traumatic stress and only to
experience more trauma identity if I do
understand my culture and history I will
fully discover my identity which gives
me value and grounding as a human being
she empowers me to understand the
importance of course cultural engagement
which helps me to build meaningful
relationship with people and fight for
racial inclusion and equity for five
years ago I co-founded a culturally
competent staff training program in San
Quentin State Prison
the caters for API prisoners in
California
restoring our original juicers Ruth as
the brother since I name it we model
roots after an external curriculum to
explore his local context of trauma to
develop cultural responses to trauma and
to reclaim personal narrative and a lot
forbidden to generational trauma this
creates a nurturing environment to help
engage people in healing which leads to
transformative justice we must be
willing to engage in a personal
revolution before we can embark on a
collective revolution let’s discover our
Chi let’s see to know our neighbors Jean
let’s remove myths let’s do something
today let’s take a deep breath and move forward
invite all of you to taking a few deep
breaths and feel the movement of Chi
at age 16 committed karma kidnap in the
kadhi rodney was trying convicted as an
adult and sent to the same Clinton state
prison to serve a life sentence people
in the prison system actually call it
Disneyland because of all the
but at first glance you may thought that
I’m engineering a tech entrepreneur or
maybe even a local politician this is
what the model minority myth has led us
to believe whether consciously or
unconsciously the myth has lead you to
believe that Asian Americans generally
work and study hard put their heads down
grind away until they make it but only
that the midpoints the supposed to
assess of the asian-americans and calls
upon other minority groups to do the
same deal ideations don’t complain how
society let’s tell you at that hand
because in America if you work hard you
will achieve the dream as someone who
had spent 21 years of my life
incarcerated what I want to tell you
today is the model minority myth is in
fact a myth and that is a barrier to
progress that should be removed in the
history of the Asians in the United
States of America two of the most
notable discriminatory laws what the
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and
expected for the nine zero six six the
Japanese internment 1942 the Chinese
Exclusion Act was the first law to
target a per than a specific ethnic
group from immigrating to the US the
substantiated fear that Chinese
immigrant chicken of a white people’s
jobs motivated govern the past this
racist law the Chinese was barred from
entering the United States until 1943
exactly for the nine zero six six
allowed the US government
to force approximately 120,000 Japanese
Americans into concentration camps
because of an irrational fear that these
Americans pose a national security
demand after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
then in the mid sixties sociologist
William Peterson point of the term model
minority to depict Asian American
achievement in spite of the historical
modernization that they have experienced
by the only government it’s true the
many Asian Americans who had mixed
sacrifices and what hard to overcome the
traumatic experiences and fought for
their place in America but Peterson’s
model minority concept sells to capture
there are many Asians that were
successful but yet knowing the fact that
them also many groups of Southeast Asian
refugees who had fled their country to
come here with our time to their names
they’re thrown into a cycle of forced
migration poverty and for many
individuals crime which can lead to
deportation just this month 43 Cambodian
refugee has set roots down this country
with deported and separated from their
family does this sound like a motto
minority but so what why should we make
a big deal about half true for the most
part things a group of people in a
positive light
this myth is harmful first the model
minority myth segregates
API is internal in 2016 California
Assemblyman Otto von banthas a b-17 26
accounting for health and education API
Democratic side caused a rift in the
asian-american community after to
disaggregate Asians into subgroups
promoted community tension one who
claimed that this was unfair because is
to punish certain Asian groups for being
successful while the other side claim
that is a matter of collecting accurate
data to provide benefits to the medias
it’s still more like battle among
sibling the second way the myth is
harmful
that is cause H is internalized the myth
perpetuated coach machine the constant
fear of being tolerance for
discrimination and the idea that one is
not American enough pressures the Asian
American unity to live to specific
standards furthermore its noise a
culture of shame that’s ever-present in
many ancient cultures so 14 years my
mother hid the fact that I was in prison
from our relatives and family friends
for fear losing face my grandparents
passed away without knowing why I hadn’t
visited them for over a decade
shame culture discourages open dialogue
within community which least members
been shown when they need to help the
most
this leads to the third way amid
discontent when we look at AP is
affected by mass incarceration and
deportation there’s always no culturally
competent services and resources to help
change their lives that’s the half a
percent of the funding public dollars
posted support API organizations and
issues Asian Americans are not abou who
had thought to have issues in our
community because the stereotype that we
are all successful and of course we
usually don’t have this ABI the data to
justify resource because we are all
lumped together the mother minority men
has become a invisible powerful barrier
removing the myth may seem like an
impossible task and I submit to you
it’s a matter of knowing your Chi the
cheetah I’m speaking of is not just the
breath and the life force that
sustaining our lives his culture history
and identity when I stepped foot in
prison I was lost I was a teenage
immigrant who did not understand how to
read or write English
I was uneducated and low self-esteem and
but it will sell until I learn how to
read and write and think critically that
was empowered to start my path to
healing culture if I don’t understand
the richness of my culture and the
culture of others I will not be able to
appreciate our commonalities and embrace
our differences and if I can understand
the culture of shame that I be able to
understand the barriers that stand
between api’s and solution to our
troubles history from – that case of
imprisoning I was forced to find my
roots I read and read and now I read and
read if I don’t understand the history
of the model minority myth then I will
not be able to appreciate the sacrifices
and the cry that many api’s have and
become successful in the same way I will
not be understanding the newest
Southeast Asian immigrants who fled
their war-torn country and came here
with post-traumatic stress and only to
experience more trauma identity if I do
understand my culture and history I will
fully discover my identity which gives
me value and grounding as a human being
she empowers me to understand the
importance of course cultural engagement
which helps me to build meaningful
relationship with people and fight for
racial inclusion and equity for five
years ago I co-founded a culturally
competent staff training program in San
Quentin State Prison
the caters for API prisoners in
California
restoring our original juicers Ruth as
the brother since I name it we model
roots after an external curriculum to
explore his local context of trauma to
develop cultural responses to trauma and
to reclaim personal narrative and a lot
forbidden to generational trauma this
creates a nurturing environment to help
engage people in healing which leads to
transformative justice we must be
willing to engage in a personal
revolution before we can embark on a
collective revolution let’s discover our
Chi let’s see to know our neighbors Jean
let’s remove myths let’s do something
today let’s take a deep breath and move forward
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