SDAAFE recently responded to a media inquiry on why we are against AB1726. Q: Why oppose the bill? A: 1) Why Asian Americans only? With the memory still fresh that Asian American students were the “problems” in the UC/CSU enrollment that the SCA5 proponents sought to “solve”, why comes the new push to categorize Asian Americans in a fine […]
Dear Governor Jeb Bush, San Diego Asian Americans for Equality (SDAAFE) is a non-partisan Political Action Committee promoting active civic engagement in public affairs and Asian American interests. We have over 1700 members. Our community finds your recent remarks about “Anchor Babies” unwarranted, offensive and highly misleading. We would like to ask you to stop using Asians as a scapegoat in the important discussions […]
The US Supreme Court has just issued a ruling to allow gay marriage across the country. This is a deeply divisive issue, with many passionately for or against, and many who simply don’t care. “I have family to feed, children to send to college, I am not gay and I am not religious, why the hell do […]
I would like to bring up my second question, SCA5, which was a hot subject just a few months ago. Let me start with some conversations I had with my daughter who is a high school senior.
Dear friends, Please make sure you, your family and your friends come out to vote on June 3, the absent of which is an open invitation for SCA5 to come back in 2015. As is well known, SCA5 passed the California Senate on Feb 1 along strict party line: All Democratic senators voted for, and all Republican senators voted […]