Lee Wong, an Asian American elected official & veteran, shares his scars in a town hall meeting, tired of the anti-Asian hate.
“Is this patriot enough?”
Mr. Wong – thank you for your service. pic.twitter.com/xYy6xpGSKL
— Frances Wang (#FrannyInMiami) (@FrancesWangTV) March 27, 2021
VT: Back in 2015, when the DHS decided that Mike Chester and I, during a trip to Germany and Italy, had actually “joined ISIS” (You just can’t make this shit up) I had another really good look at the dumbfuckery of so many Americans.
It was decided that as we were “middle aged” white people, probably steeped with bad religion and even worse brain chemistry, we must have been looking for some kind of trouble.
The truth, I was taking Michael around as a historian and archeologist…isn’t sexy enough.
Few white Americans know the horrors they have caused, here in America, and around the world. Fewer still take any responsibility.
I saw it before going to Vietnam when my Californian brothers would shout insults and throw garbage at Marines unfortunate enough to be on a sidewalk. I began to see one fucking percent of what Asian, Hispanic or African Americans go through.
Then Dick Cheney did it to our Islamic population. I will probably head into Detroit today, to the Eastern Market, in the heart of the city. Our family opened a meat packing business there in 1842. Prior to that we had a fur trading post but Ford built a fucking factory there. It opened in 1780 but we left in 1792 and fled to Canada.
The Detroit of today few would understand. Carol and I will be among the few white faces at the Gratiot market…best corned beef…ribs…(wholesale) in the world. Hundreds who really know food will be there. It is a very good time…more than just safe. Nothing really wrong with white folks, excepting maybe that stick so many of them have up their asses..
Since Vietnam I have worked on every continent (except 2) and have been treated with the courtesy and respect I deserve…by people who don’t look like me. I am far more at home with the Kurds or in Ghana or Kenya than here. Anyone would.
Read a bit about Lee Wong. I have been dealing with the Chinese for 40 years and some change and as with so many Americans, have very good friends in China. They aren’t always the best people to do business with…but who is nowadays?
Racism is a major verboten at VT.
from China Daily:
Lee Wong: an accidental politician
Lee Wong is quite proud to be the leader of West Chester, an affluent suburb north of Cincinnati, Ohio.
With a population of 66,000, a median family income of $100,260, a 94 percent high school graduation rate and a projected job growth rate of 4.48 percent for the next five years, it’s no wonder that for a seventh time West Chester made it onto Money Magazine’s list of the 50 “Best Places to Live” in America.
It ranks 38th and is the only Ohio town on the 2018 list.
Wong is serving his fourth term as president of the board of trustees of West Chester, a position equivalent to mayor in an incorporated city where about 3,000 businesses are located with a strong presence of bio-tech companies.
He plans to run for one more four-year term to make his public service career a 20-year affair.
Wong came a long way to become the president of a township where the population is more than 90 percent white.
His parents passed away when he was 12 years old. Later he immigrated to the US from Malaysia to pursue a degree in pharmacology in Chicago in the early 1970s.
Wong, an ethnic Chinese, never intended to come to this country to get into politics and get involved in the government, but one incident changed his life’s trajectory.
Two years into his college program, Wong was attacked by a white male when he was mistaken for Japanese. “It was serious aggravated assault. He pushed me to the ground and I had to go to hospital,” he said.
Wong filed a criminal complaint and took him to court.
“However, he continued to call me ‘Jap’ in court contemptuously. The judge sentenced him to one-year, non-reporting probation only. That meant as long as he did not attack anyone else within a year and get reported, he was free,” Wong recalled.
“I was stupid and only 20 years old, I let it get into my head. I was confused and angry. For two years I was angry at the world and I hated white people, but I married a white woman later,” he said.
“I could not study and thought only of revenge, that’s how stupid I was. I was without parental guidance, living in someone’s basement for $60 a month, doing two jobs at restaurants to support myself.”
Then the movie Justice for All came out, starring Al Pacino. “I got more stupid ideas and decided I’d become a policeman to get my revenge,” he said.
His application was thrown into the trash as soon as he turned his back. He heard them laughing: “That Chinaman wants to be policeman.”
Wong got a stroke of luck and obtained a green card because his older brother was a citizen. “So I joined the army. I scored high and got admitted. They said, you want to be a policeman? I will make you a military policeman.”
“The Army was really good. We shaved our heads and put on uniforms. The drill sergeant told us: ‘You all are the same. Green is the uniform, red is the blood, we are all brothers. Anything in your head is garbage, clean it out. You follow me and I will treat you right.’
Wong took advantage of the benefits the military provided and went to school at night. He got a bachelor’s degree in criminal science and applied for a position in the Army police force’s CID (Criminal Investigation Command). There were only 300 soldiers in the CID at the time.
“I was the first Chinese American to get in one of the most elite US Army organizations, and I was immediately out of a uniform and into suits. We protected the secretary of defense and four-star generals, so I traveled a lot. However, 80 percent of our job was felony investigation. The Army controls violence, but there are many crimes in the Army,” he said.
Wong has seen four wars in his 20-year career in the army. He also learned a lot about politics in the military.
“I said to myself, when I get out, when I retire, I want to do something good for the community, make it a better place than I found it. That is the reason I got into this,” he said.
After working as a police officer for a few years in Indiana, Wong moved his family to West Chester in 2001. He got involved in the community by volunteering to collect tickets for football games. After a few years, he made a lot of contacts and gained good visibility in the community.
In 2005 Wong campaigned and won the board seat. He won three more times after that. His current term will end in 2021 and he plans to run for one more term.
When Wong first came to West Chester, the population was about 50,000; today it’s 66,000.
The first thing Wong did was to improve the police department.
“The police used to be like Robocops, cold to people. I got my first ticket here. I replaced the police chief. I wanted the police to be friendly to residents, to be here to protect the citizens,” Wong said.
He also put some effort into improving the quality of life in West Chester. The fire department’s response time is now two minutes. He made sure the tax rate never went up and there is no income tax. The town has paved 220 miles of road and is pushing to build walking trails. The town provides a lot of amenities in the parks, such as free concerts in the summer.
Wong is also focusing on business development. He is joining Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley to lead a delegation visit to China in early November for more than two weeks.
“Some governments come to poach our business. I am not worried because businesses like us and want to stay here. We are constantly going to business conventions in Las Vegas to attract business. We have sent people to Europe. This is the first time I have taken a trip abroad for business,” Wong said.
Wong said another important thing he did as the leader of the town was to set the stage for the next Asian American to run for office.
“I meet them and give classes on how to get involved in the community. That’s very important,” he said.
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It’s a new day. Back to the topic at hand… “Racism is a major verboten at VT.” Thank you Gordon. That couldn’t be any more clear. This is why ReTrumplicans are feeling increasingly estranged on VT. Their basic assumption, that white protestant Christians made the USA what it is, just don’t hold up anymore.
I’m fortunate enough to live in a state, New Mexico, that is currently in the process of coming to terms with our white-supremasist past. We still have crazy dudes like Steve Pearce, chairman of the ReTrumplican Party of New Mexico, saying that, “Trump is our president FOREVER and no one can take that away from us.” but they are an increasing minority. We have mail-in voting and no long lines to vote like in the big cities and we will prevail…
Sorry, Mihail, one last dig… Your political expiration date is long past due. Mail-in voting has completely overwhelmed the traditional Republican voter-suppression tactics that have kept Black-folk in the major cities from voting all these years. You white supremacists will never win another election is the USA.
The irony of all this is that in the 19th and early 20th Century, millions of Swedes emigrated to the USA to escape poverty and starvation in Sweden, my grandparents being among them. The so-called nativists of the time called them dumb Swedes because they couldn’t speak English. They were taking their jobs in the lumber mills and factories in Wisconsin.
Now, how many Swedes are lining up at the border trying to become Americans? It’s mainly folks from Central America who are coming to the USA for the very same reasons the Swedes did in the 19th Century. The nativists of today (Trumpsters) are condemning them for the same ignorant reasons they condemned the Swedes for back in the day. What goes around comes around, Hoops.
Mihail…It seems you have a “Readers Digest” with a smattering of Fox News…education. Your continual Zionist harping while pretending to hate the zionists is tiring.
Nice to see he could overcome racism, join the melting pot, and become an American.
Can’t defeat Trumpism when most Americans can’t even handle self-evident truth, like that…
#OpenBorders* #MadeAmericaGreat. (#MAGA!)
Or that #WhenAmericaWasGreat, noncitizens could vote.
* For White/Europeans, while Asians were banned and a million Hispanic US Citizens were terrorized & illegally deported.
The Euro Snowflakes called Ellis “Heartbreak Island”, for the low acceptance rate of… 98%! And long processing times of… 4hours!
“The United States was founded by White Protestants, the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were written by White Protestants. Most of these White Protestants had recently fled religious satanic persecution in Europe which lasted for hundreds of years under the Vatican, where every type of torture known to human kind was practiced upon the Human race by the Catholic clergy.”
Yes, the US was founded b Protestants that’s the root cause of most of its problems, bigotry, and the self centered nature of the country.
The rest of your comment is just nonsense, the Catholic Church settled Maryland as a joint partnership with the English Crown, and the Catholic colonists there had their religion outlawed by Puritans who had taken control of the colony politically. Many Protestants came to America to escape Protestant (Anglican) religious persecution in England.
Yes the Catholic Church is corrupt it’s a human institution, and just look at today’s Protestant mega churches for further examples of corruption.
The Illuminati where founded in 1776 (18th Century) the colonies where founded the 16th century.
My grandmother, the German, came through Ellis Island. You can actually look this shit up.
Public service is service to the people. That is why we separate church and state.
Priorities. The appropriate spiritual services do not get mingled up in the communities physical needs. Mayhem results. Particularly with defense, as should be overwhelmingly obvious to anyone who cares.
Thats a good story, and what most hope they signed up for. I do think the suicide rates among veterans is partly due to them understanding the damage, and face difficulties rectifying it with their heart felt protector spirit, that wishes no unnecessary harm on others. Others of less character build a wall of hate to justify the damage, and many will die in denial, unable to face themselves.
Golem, less that human, that’s me. That’s what the “chosen” think about the rest of us… When will we ever get past that. Certainly not when Christian Zionists think the Ashkenazim are God’s chosen people. Please respond…
Hey, Gordon, racism is why Europeans come to what is now the USA in the first place, to displace the indigenous red-skinned inhabitants, rape and pillage… the rest is history. This “chosenness” is the same that brought the Ashkenazim to Palestine. Manifest Destiny equals Zionism equals racism, pure and simple.
Mihail,
Funny then how N̶a̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ Americans are 2% population in their US homeland, while in Central America it’s 20%.
Also funny that the bogeyman here, Israel, was also formed by those “who came to avoid/after being burned alive”.
Sorry, Mihail, your so-called “Protestants” (I’m a Lutheran for Pete’s sake.) were responsible for taking out 90% of indigenous Native Americans from the first “contact.” Those evil Catholics actually lived with the indigenous rather than exterminate them. I live in New Mexico so I know this.
So what are you saying, Mihail, that Catholics were just as bad as the Protestants? Even now, we in New Mexico are trying to figure this out, but the Pueblo people are still around, unlike 90% of the Native Americans out east. What is your point, man?
Okay, I get it. You are a Christian Zionist who thinks that “white Protestants” get to tell the rest of us what to do. Sorry, man, there are more of us than there are of you. Demographics will win out in the end, arsehole.
Who are you, actually? Give us the facts and there will be no false conjecture.
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