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Seems that some of the members here believe that all the other groups, even other black populations outside of America hate blacks as much as they do. Well, that's just not so.
The Birth of Yellow Power
By watching Black people expose institutional racism and government hypocrisy, Asian Americans began to identify how they, too, had faced discrimination in the United States.
“The ‘Black power’ movement caused many Asian Americans to question themselves,” wrote Amy Uyematsu in “The Emergence of Yellow Power,” a 1969 essay.
Also, a founding member of the Black Panther Party—Richard Aoki—was Japanese American. A military veteran who spent his early years in an internment camp, Aoki donated weapons to the Black Panthers and trained them in their use.
Important Events of the Asian American Civil Rights Movement
History of the Asian American Civil Rights Movement
During the Asian American civil rights movement of the 1960s and '70s, activists fought for the development of ethnic studies programs in universities, an end to the Vietnam War, and reparations for Japanese Americans forced into internment camps during World War II. The movement had come to a close by the late 1980s.The Birth of Yellow Power
By watching Black people expose institutional racism and government hypocrisy, Asian Americans began to identify how they, too, had faced discrimination in the United States.
“The ‘Black power’ movement caused many Asian Americans to question themselves,” wrote Amy Uyematsu in “The Emergence of Yellow Power,” a 1969 essay.
Also, a founding member of the Black Panther Party—Richard Aoki—was Japanese American. A military veteran who spent his early years in an internment camp, Aoki donated weapons to the Black Panthers and trained them in their use.
Important Events of the Asian American Civil Rights Movement