The Chinese Exclusion Act - A PBS Special

Unite Now Before It's Too Late

NOT received our e-newsletters for weeks???  Find  them in your "promotions" box or "spam" box.  To bypass it, place support@constantcontact.com  & sbw@udel.edu  in your computer's address book.                                 THE  CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT          Nat'l Broadcast Debut On PBS IN 4 DAYS,              ON TUESDAY, MAY 29 FROM 8:00-10:00 PM ET.       FORWARD this e-newsletter to all your friends.  Reasons? This film is NOT just about Chinese immigrants. It is also about  America. It is NOT just about then. It is also about NOW!           A modern version of Chinese Exclusion Act is stewing.   Just recall the conversation between Senator Rubio of FL and FBI director Wray on the Senate floor on Feb 13.   Click one "Stand together or Hang separately" for a quick review.  80-20 also donated $500 to this project.       FOWARD to as many of our compatriots as your email list will allow.  That way, our nation may review the past in order to prevent the recurrence of an earlier mistake.   Women detainees at Angel Island. Unlike Ellis Island, where 98 percent of incoming immigrants made their way through, eighteen percent of the applicants at Angel Island were initially rejected -  and five percent deported outright - after grueling interrogations, and harrowing detentions. __________ AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS Ric Burns, Director and Co-Writer Li-Shin Yu, Director and Editor Hoon Lee, Narrator __________ THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT IS A PRODUCTION OF STEEPLECHASE FILMS

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Have not received 80-20 EF's e-newsletter for a few weeks? It's Google's new e-mail software program. It has placed EF's e-newsletters into your "promotion" instead of "primary" box or "spam" box.     You may not think you are using google e-mail. Actually you might be. Many university domains ending with @xxx.edu actual use Google's email system.     To avoid it, place sbw@udel.edu into your Google's "safe sender list" and/or your computer's Email-Address Book.      Elections are coming.  The case against Harvard is reaching the decision stage. Stay tuned.  Thanks.  S. B. Woo  President and a volunteer for the past 20 years 80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization, http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/index.php

Help Find EF's Next President

A $1,000 Reward for help finding EF's next president

WeChat account ID is: 8020ef.  Please scan our QR code,  shown below, & on 80-20 EF's WeChat site. For a Chinese  version of thise-newsletter, click https://goo.gl/6GsJWe       S. B. Woo is 80. Sooner or later he'll retire. For the past 10 yrs. or more the EF's Board has looked for a potential replacement for S. B. Alas, no luck.              Finding a new president is much harder than most people realize. Here are the requirements to be the EF president, if we want someone with SB's characteristics: 1) Willing to spend 40 to 60 hours per week on EF matters, day or night, weekends, and/or while on vacation, when duty calls, 2) Willing to stick his/her neck out to fight for the benefit of our community, 3) Rich experience in public service and in politics in order to do the job well and to be able to bear the pressure associated with items 1) and 2), 4) Write a weekly e-newsletter that will empower the AsAm community and/or keep EF alive and jumping in the hearts & minds of a lot of AsAms, 5) Can raise at least $150,000 per year which is the minimum budget for EF,  (S.B. also built a $3 million endowment along the way), and 6) Willing to donate at least $5000 per yr. to EF related causes, to set a positive example for 80-20 supporters.     Requirements 2) and 3) are particularly difficult to fulfill.       We have tried nurturing someone from within and recruited/hired and trained someone from without. No luck!             However, we should also think outside the box and look for a very different kind of president.  Nevertheless, the person must be willing to sacrifice self for the  community and be a responsible good leader.                         We look to all of you to help us find good candidates  Don't hesitate to nominate yourself.  Sacrificing self for your community is an honorable act.  But if you nominate others,  please acquire their consent first.  Confidentiality will be honored, if requested. Email sbw@udel.edu.                              EF Willing to Consider Other Alternatives     Right now serving as EF's president is a volunteer job.  But paying the next president is NOT out of the question.   If someone is qualified, we could discuss an annual salary around $150,000.  $150K is considered excellent pay for a 501 c-3 org. with a $3 million endowment.  There will be a probational period of 6 months, when the person will be working full-time, but NOT be paid.  The willingness to sacrifice self for the community is an important requirement for this job.  Bear in mind that S.B. worked for 20 years as a volunteer, and in addition donated more than $200K.                                     Poster Board Is A Success       The poster board is successful. Click on 80-20ef.org/posterboard to post your view and /or read others' posts. Some are substantive discussions. Love to hear from you, particularly regarding EF's next president. EF fights for you. Help EF find a good president. If EF dies, YOU may lose a layer of protection.                                                             DONATE S. B. Woo  President and a volunteer for the past 18 years 80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization, http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/index.php   To know more about 80-20, view these videos : https://youtu.be/dB3eGVqG-wA  (Ignore the last 35 secs. The election is over.) http://youtu.be/h781_ECSJYM  80-20 EF Mission Statement

Political Maturity (3) - Ask for accountability

Ask for accountability from our leaders

WeChat account ID is: 8020ef.  Please scan our QR code,  shown below, & on 80-20 EF's WeChat site. For a Chinese  version of this e-newsletter, click  https://goo.gl/6GsJWe .         Political Maturity We Need:    4) Ask for ACCOUNTABILITY                              We, AsAms, are culturally reluctant to ask for accountability from our leaders, be they AsAm elected officials and/or community leaders. The implicit reason for NOT asking for accountability is that it could lead to bad feelings, which is bad for forging UNITY.       However, the above is a baseless hypothesis. If "not asking for accountability helps forge unity," then AsAms would have the most united, though inefficient, community. The truth is that we are the most splintered and inefficient community, despite highly efficient individuals and profit-seeking companies!      "Don't ask for accountability" is an elite-created-myth for us little folks. Our elites want to give each other "FACE" and help each other retain leadership positions without the requisite sacrifice and toiling. We must press for accountability!             Take for example the group of 14 that asked for a meeting with FBI Director Wray.  Another week has passed -- without a reply from Wray and without a fuss from the group of 14.  Are they leaders?  Are they helping us or just helping to affirm the humiliating image that "AsAm activists will timidly walk away when ignored"?  You be the judge.             How 80-20 EF had advised them to address Director Wray,                                              which they rejected.               EF would have joined the group of 14 had it agreed to "carry a stick" in its letter to Director Wray.  It'll be something like:  ....... In 8 weeks, we are planning a National Press Conference in Washington D.C.  We'll announce our coalition's understanding of your earlier Senate statement, which broadly painted all Chinese nationals as a threat to our national security.  We will give credit or hold accountable President Trump who appointed you and the Republican Senate which confirmed you.  We trust that we'll hear from you by then.    ........       Such a letter would be sent "registered and return-receipt requested", via email, and by fax, to Director Wray, Attorney Gen. Sessions of DOJ,  Chairperson of the Republican Nat'l Comm (RNC), and President Trump.  RNC and the White House would pass the word to Director Wray to pay attention to our letter.         If such a letter were to be sent, the outcome would mostly likely be quite different. If we still didn't hear from Wray, then we may have used the "National Press Conference in Washington D.C." to urge our community to punish during the coming mid-term election. Either way, our community would not be humiliated. Indeed, Director Wray may be induced to reconsider his earlier Senate statement.       We live in a great nation which truly practices democracy.  Anyone who understands democracy knows that it is fitting and proper for our community to exercise our rights to reward or punish politicians according to our interest during elections.  That is how America's democracy works.         80-20 EF continues its offer to work with the group of 14 to recover our community's honor, without getting a positive response.   Asking for accountability will address                    poor performance.                         We Love to Hear and Learn From Your views       EF has re-installed its Poster Board. Click on 80-20ef.org/posterboard  to post your view on this newsletter and/or the earlier ones.  Love to hear from you. :-)                                                               DONATE S. B. Woo  President and a volunteer for the past 18 years 80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization, http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/index.php   To know more about 80-20, view these videos : https://youtu.be/dB3eGVqG-wA  (Ignore the last 35 secs. The election is over.) http://youtu.be/h781_ECSJYM  80-20 EF Mission Statement

Love to hear your views

Love to hear and learn from your views!

A special e-newsletter to introduce EF's poster board to you.  Our regular e-newsletter will follow.  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -                      Now, you and I can communicate.  :-)  :-)   :-)    Please click here to reach 80-20 EF's NEW poster board.  Then, click on the title of either of the 2 recent e-newsletters, i.e. Political Maturity (1) or P.M. (2), to post your views.      After clicking on a title of your choice, a new page will open up.  When you get there, you'll see comments 1 to 3 already posted.  Those are samples to help you use this poster board.     The samples show Comment (1):   How you can post your view or question (colored green); Comments (2) & (3):  How another 80-20 supporter may choose to                   comment (red) on your comment (green).  Sometimes I'll join the                   fun and have a discussion/debate with all of you.  :-)      Click on 80-20ef.org/posterboard and be the first to start our discussion. From here on out, every EF e-newsletter will have a poster board so that we may hear your views and learn from you.  Together, we shall overcome. SB PS:  On the home page of the poster board, you'll also see about 162 earlier e-newsletters published from 07/31/2007 to 11/26/2014.  A gap separates the older e-newsletters from the recent ones.  Go click on the e-newsletter dated (07/15/2014).   It has more than 100 comments & discussions.   That is how we learn from each other and become a cohesive community.

Political Maturity (2) - Carry a Big Stick

Timidity is a fatal disease in politics, especially for the weak & powerless.

WeChat account ID is: 8020ef.  Please scan our QR code,  shown below, & on 80-20 EF's WeChat site. For a Chinese  version of this e-newsletter, click  https://goo.gl/6GsJWe. Jews and AsAms are comparable in average educational level & per family income level.  Our Jewish friends are much morepolitically mature!      Shall we try to catch up?            To review Political Maturity (1) - Introduction, click here. Read about 3 basic concepts of political maturity, (P.M.). Know what P.M. will bring us. In today's Political Maturity (2), we discuss                                            The Type of P. M. We Need.         Item 2), "Speak softly, but carry a big stick," is for AsAm leaders only.  All the rest are for all of us. 1) Practice Enlightened Self-Interest:               It's unrealistic to expect others to fight for us. We must each do our share of the fighting. When we do that, a little effort from each will be sufficient to win equal citizenship for all of us. Do your share TODAY! 2)  Speak Softly but Carry a Big Stick:        80-20 EF doesn't just preach it, we practice it.  Click (1), (2), (3), (4) & (5) to read about EF's wars, carrying a stick.  See how EF leaders risk their necks to fight for the community, and win benefits for YOU!  Our sticks are often not that big.  But a short stick wielded by a fearless leadership, can be quite effective as the above 5 battles have shown.         When AsAm orgs. don't follow the "carry a stick" rule, they often bring shame and humiliation to our community and themselves Here is a recent example.                A request to meet FBI Director Wray by a group of 14 AsAm orgs,  has not been answered for the last 2 months.  Director Wray made a Senate statement painting broadly the whole of Chinese nationals in America as a unique threat to our society.  So did the group of 14 use the stick?  NO!  They didn't carry one.      Have they done our community harm?  Perhaps.  You be the judge. The following is a true story.              In 1988, I was Delaware's Lt. Governor representing the Dem. Party to run for the U.S. Senate.  Sen. John Kerry, who later became the U. S. Secretary of State, was then Chair of Democratic Senate Campaign Comm., DSCC.   So we interacted sometimes.  One day, he said to me that the U.S. political establishment has counted on Asian Americans, even activists, to quietly walk away when told to go away.  It hurt me so much that I secretly vowed to never be that timid.   The 14 orgs are:    Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)    Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles    Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Washington (AAJC)    Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA)    Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association (APAPA)    Asian Services in Action (ASIA)    Chinese American Citizens Alliance (C.A.C.A.)    Committee of 100 (C100)*    Council of Korean Americans (CKA)    Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)    Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)    OCA - Asian American Advocates (OCA)    Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)    United Chinese Americans (UCA)   (*For further information, please contact Frank H. Wu, Chairman,    Committee of 100, at chair@committee100.org or 212-371-6565.)     EF had offered to work with the group of 14 to create effective pressure. To verify, click here. The group has thus far not responded positively. Actually, we'd love and ADMIRE them, if the 14 orgs. can get the job done by themselves.  Will they?  Will they carry a stick this time? 3)  Money Talks.  Make $$$ talk for us:         When so called AsAm civil rights orgs. like OCA of D.C., AALDEF of NY, & APALC of LA all had to go outside of our community to get funding, they began to go against our community's best interests. For example, they consistently filed legal documents to support "race-preference college admissions", which 98% of AsAms are against. They should at least fight against the "Asian tax", which gives a 140 SAT point advantage to white applicants. To verify, click here.        Things are turning around a bit regarding donation maturity. We like to think that EF has something to do with it. For example, 80-20 EF gets 100% of its funding from the AsAms only. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! That is how EF has built a $3 million war chest for YOU. Soon, EF will have an even more ambitious project to announce. Aim high, Fellow AsAms.                                                DONATE S. B. Woo  President and a volunteer for the past 18 years 80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization, http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/index.php   To know more about 80-20, view these videos : https://youtu.be/dB3eGVqG-wA  (Ignore the last 35 secs. The election is over.) http://youtu.be/h781_ECSJYM  80-20 EF Mission Statement