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By Shaie-Mei Temple The perspectives, dreams, identity, affinity, trials and tribulations between
the immigrant, marginal and fully Americanized Chinese Americans differ Just yesterday, I was thinking about hiring a hip-hop artist to produce a rap about "The Warrior Chinaman". The lyric will tell my story of a maiden waiting for the arrival of a Chinese warrior in America, in real life form, not the make believe kind in Jackie Chan and Chow Young Fat movies. I fantasized that had warrior existed we would have had a massive demonstration and protestation organized when David Wu got barred from entering the DOE building. But instead we grinned and bore it once more with understanding and forbearance without demanding and securing severe rebuke or punishment of the people or system responsible for the incident. 80-20 is behind the national "Show Of The Flag" demonstration on July 4th. I applaud the effort but fear that if the cost of insulting one of the highest ranking representative of our "designated" political Asian American tribaldom is a mere massive flag waving, it will not deter the next event from happening. I can understand the Flag Waving countermeasure from the 80-20 leadership, many of them grew up with Confucian values and mores. But what are the excuses for the young men and women who were born and raised in this country? The silence is deafening and eerie to me. I am quite active locally and I hardly ever see Asian Americans active in civic, community and political activities. eWarriors are okay, but it does not help much when group clout and influence are needed for qualified Asian American candidates to contend and win life opportunities they aspire to. 80-20 for better or for worse is the only warrior organization that can
mobilize and leverage the kind of Asian American soldiers we have, the behind the desk and PC eSoldier. Some of the first wave of 80-20 eSoldiers have now
become on-the-ground troops fighting hand-to-hand combat in Los Angeles, Houston and New York. I know because I have seen it happen and read the news
reports. And you should know that there are many unsung heroes manning 80-20's day-to-day operations. They are award-winning scholars and scientists
and other highly accomplished professionals and successful business people. They gave generously their money, time and energy to 80-20 and at times to People behind 80-20 are not mindless. We are very mindful people. We are mindful that our generation, despite having giving your generation a good home life, upbringing, a solid start in a promising career, now need to dedicate our remaining time to leave you a political legacy. A legacy that will enable your generation to truly become a first and equal class American. We know because we have lived and still are living that of a second if not last political class kind of existence. Well, maybe when you get across the 50 mark on your birthday counts, you will see what I am trying to say to you. But then maybe not, hopefully it will be because the burden I carry and barriers I have encountered may no longer be there to hinder you. On a personal level, I just want to make sure that when the day my nephew who is in the Naval Academy goes after a command position, his loyalty will not be challenged by mainstream think tanks due to his ethnic origin and that when he qualifies for a major appointment he will not lose because we Asian Americans still are politically weak and impotent.
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