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It’s not safe to be in Boulder, Colorado on some nights for Asian Americans. First according to the Denver Post, ” One of the men — described as being a blond white male about 19 or 20 — said, “Do you think you are an American?” called him a “Chinaman,” punched him in the face “multiple times” and told him to say that he loved America, police said.”  Then unrelated was a sexual assault on an Asian American woman. Two attacks, one bad night. The illustration below is of the racial assault assailant who looks like a freak. Definitely the wrong way to start off the New Year, Boulder… (Denver Post – Attacks)
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  From 60 years ago, you hardly hear of the good in Japanese American concentration camps. Yes, there are pockets of smiles here and there. A way of life had to get established since they were behind fences and guns. Gardens, farming, making crafts, baseball, you hear of it all. The legacy sort of lives via the art and the photographs. This article points out Ralph L Carr, the Governor of Colorado who fought for the Japanese Americans. Yes, they still got imprisoned. He served only one term perhaps for his opinions. (American Thinker – Ralph L Carr)   Ralph Carr has a memorial in a spot that look super barren.
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