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An amazing photo. The background of the guys on the roof says a lot. Here’s a thoughful essay by Elaine Woo about her own article two decades ago. If you lived in LA, you can sympathize and understand. “Other non-Korean Asian Americans I spoke to back then felt the same confusion. Solidarity? Not when people who looked like us were getting shot or doing the shooting, we thought, with more than a little shame. “Asian American — who generated this term?” a Japanese American friend mused the other day. “We have nothing in common but appearance.”” (LA Times – Elaine Woo)
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Calling people Fucking Chinese? In a match today against Ernests Gulbis, Michael Llodra exclaimed Fucking Chinese to a Korean American female who was routing for Gulbis at the BNP Indian Wells tournament. The incident was further substantiated by a reporter who tweeted it. What will be done by the USTA?  
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