WTF, Those letters are interpreted in different ways. When Jordan was in high school, he wrote for the school newspaper and penned a column called "Wada Top Five". Of course there was a double meaning implied that he somehow got away with.
The term comes up as I read an article on Andrew Yang today, where he is calling out to Asian Americans “We Asian Americans need to embrace and show our American-ness in ways we never have before,” That hit me in two ways.
One, my short documentary this year is on the Japanese American National War Memorial Court honoring those JAs that died fighting for their country, not just WWII, but in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East. Was their sacrifice forgotten?
2nd reaction, why do we have to continually prove our American-ness? Why is there this attitude that we need to prove ourselves?
Andrew Yang's comments have ticked me off but supplied me with additional material and depth for my film this year.
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