Dear Ms. Ling Ling,

 

In reading the article regarding video translation services in Alameda county, and subsequently reading the information provided by your organization's website, I'm honestly appalled at the positionality and mission of your organization. I feel that your gaze at immigration is acritical and truly decontextualizes itself from the global realities of the United State's imperialist agenda. Immigration is a global production, embedded between the continuum of neo-liberalism and war. Born from this colonialism is the "illegal immigrant" and the "refugee"- two political identities that you mention on your website. I wonder why your organization isn't critical of this production of immigrants; instead choosing to impose an individual responsibility narrative that has historically veiled social responsibility. Your acknowledgement that "immigrants can be assets," in my opinion, is at best a trivial comment deeply grounded in historical amnesia. I believe that there exists more humanizing solutions to the so-called "immigration problem" than "contacting the media" or "contacting the president."

 

In my opinion, this "immigration situation" is yet another moment in our history where communities of color have been pitted against each other through the mechanism of structural racism. Perhaps I am an optimist, but I hope that we could trace social problems beyond the individual in our continual struggle for social justice. Thanks for reading.

 

Sincerely,

Roger Viet Chung

 

To this she replies... and i did not fabricate this. She wrote this for sheezy.

 

Hi Mr. Chung:
Read the following quotes and tell me what you think.  As you  know (or
you may not know), many people within the same racial and ethnic
backgrounds do not like each other.  For instance, many Chinese from
China cannot stand those from Hong Kong who don't like those from Taiwan
who don't feel any kinship those from other parts of the world.  Do you
think that many Chinese get along well with other non-Chinese, such as
Mexicans, blacks, whites, etc.?

Mario Obledo, co-founder of MALDEF, publicly said in 1998 that in the
next 5 to 10 years, California is going to become a Hispanic state.  He
went on by saying that "anyone who does not like Mexicans should leave.
They should go back to Europe."

Do you think that Chinese Americans who don't like Mexicans would like
to be told to go back to  China?

I wish to remind you that I used to work for immigration law firms for
10 years, helping people immigrate to the U.S.

Wake up.  Don't turn the U.S. into another China or Mexico.

Yeh Ling-Ling
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Eye-opening quotes of leaders of Mexican descent:

"We are practicing La Reconquista in California." --Jose Pescador Osuna,

then Mexican Consul General

"I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the
territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an
important - a very important - part of this." -- then Mexican President
Ernesto Zedillo*, Chicago on July 23, 1997.

"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction

of Mexico without firing a single shot."  --Excelsior- The national
newspaper of Mexico.

"Mexico is recovering the territories yielded to the United States by
means of migratory tactics."
--  Elena Poniatowska, prize-winning Mexican novelist who has taught at
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, etc.

"A secessionist movement is not something that you can put away and say
it is never going to happen in the United States. Time and history
change." – UC Riverside Professor Armando Navarro **.

"As goes the Latino population will go the state of California, and as
goes the state of California will go the United States of America. My
friends, the stakes are big. This is a fight worth making." – Former
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros***  at a Hispanic

conference in 1995.

"Eventually, we are going to take over all the political institutions of

California.... Anyone who does not like Mexicans should leave.  They
should go back to Europe" -- Mario Obledo ****, co-founder and President

of MALDEF,  1968 to 1973; President of the League of United Latin
American Citizens 1983-85, California State Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare 1975-82, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

by Bill Clinton

"Remember 187 (proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to
illegal aliens) was the last gasp of white America in California."   --
Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party

"They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions
and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over. …. We are

here to stay." --Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council

"We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are
dying. The explosion is in our population.….. I love it. They are
shitting in their pants with fear. I love it.", "We have got to
eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to
the worst, we have got to kill him."--  Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez,
University of Texas.
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Notes:

* In June 2002, a Zogby poll showed that 58 percent of Mexicans living
in Mexico    believed the U.S. Southwest rightfully belongs to them and
57 percent of Mexicans did not believe that they need U.S. permission to

enter  this country.

** Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington, author of the best-seller,
"Clash of Civilizations, has written that high Mexican immigration is a
"threat to American social
security.  Mexican Professor Charles Truxillo has publicly stated with
confidence that
the U.S. Southwest's secession is an "inevitability" due to continued
high Hispanic
immigration.  On June 21, 2002, he said on the national TV show Hannity

& Colmes that
"the U.S. Southwest will secede and may rejoin Mexico."  He even stated

on the air: "No nation's borders have been permanent.  Throughout
history, nations and empires rise and fall."

***  In the last decade, the Hispanic population exploded in the U.S.
Even in North Carolina,
  it increased by more than 600 percent.  Hispanics now have outnumbered

blacks as
this nation's largest minority group.


****  In 1998, Obledo publicly predicted that "in the next 5 to 10
years, California is going to be a Hispanic state, and anyone who
doesn't like it should leave. They should go back to Europe." In early
2003, a study by UCLA found that 52.5% of the babies born in California
now are Hispanics.

Yes she did. I kid you not. Anyway, I shot back telling her that she should change her organizations name from "Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America" to "Anti-Mexican Racist League" noting that i didn't think that "diversity" wasn't the appropriate diction. I'll post my response soon.

 

i hope all is doing well. for the bored, thanks for reading. my summer has suddenly become frustrating yet entertaining.