{"id":16034,"date":"2013-08-28T03:08:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T03:08:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-28T03:08:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T03:08:56","slug":"Asian-Leaders-Treasure-MLK-s-Dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=16034","title":{"rendered":"Asian Leaders Treasure MLK\u2019s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bonnie Youn is a distinguished immigration attorney and a human rights activist.<\/strong> The White House honored her with a 2013 Cesar Chavez Champions of Change Award. She heads the Youn Law Group in Atlanta, which provides immigration services.<\/p>\n

The March on Washington 50 years ago was about civil rights and equal opportunity and people of every race participated in the effort.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica has strengths unlike any other country,\u201d She said. According to Youn, in America race and class are not as rigid as they are in other, older, countries, and people have the freedom of expression.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the freedom to vocalize [our wish for civil rights] in a public, peaceful setting. We have that setting in a stable democracy,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Asian-American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) have played an important role in America\u2019s civil rights movement past and present.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been AAPIs who have been very involved in the civil rights movement,\u201d said Youn, citing the Japanese American Citizens League as an example. \u201cIt\u2019s so powerful.\u201d <\/p>\n

Youn is of Korean descent.<\/strong> A friend of hers with close ties to Atlanta\u2019s civil rights efforts, is of Chinese descent.<\/p>\n

According to Youn, her friend\u2019s father, Jack Shaw, taught judo to young black students in the 1960s and early 1970s. When his pupils were forbidden to take part in a martial arts competition, he became an accidental civil rights activist, working with Martin Luther King\u2019s Ebenezer Baptist Church to end segregation.<\/p>\n

Though AAPIs have long worked for justice and human rights, their contributions are often ignored, according Helen Kim Ho<\/strong>, attorney and founder of the Asian American Legal Advocacy Center, a civil rights NGO. <\/p>\n

Ho says Asian-Americans have always been involved in civil rights. For example in the 1960s, very vocal Japanese-Americans helped end the ethnic quota system in immigration.<\/p>\n

via www.theepochtimes.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Check out twitter.com\/BonnieYounYLG<\/a>.<\/em>
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