Tag Archives: Filipino American

Emil Amok: And you thought Insurrection was a Filipino word? More on Jan.6 Mob riot, Ted Cruz, Filipino American History, and why Double Impeachment isn’t a new Ben and Jerry’s flavor….

Emil Guillermo talks with Prof. Daniel Phil Gonzales about the news of Jan. 6, 2021, and what to expect in the final days of Trump.

Read Emil’s columns at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund site.

Emil Amok: Thoughts on the Capitol Riot, Trump, working at the Capitol, and a failed People Power manipulation by Trump

Some thoughts on the failed insurrection:

See my columns at AALDEF.

IF YOU WANT TO SEE HOW THE MOB AND LYNCHING ARE INTER-RELATED, NOTE THAT “#HANGMIKEPENCE” WAS TRENDING ON TWITTER. Filipinos were lynched and murdered in the Jim Crow parts of California in the 1930s. On Jan. 6, 2021, insurrectionists were looking for the vice-president whom they regarded as a traitor.