I've heard so many damn comments about this freakin' LA Times article in the past few days. I guess it was expected since I do work in Historic Filipinotown with one of the largest community organizations there.
I don't quite understand what the purpose was of the article? From what I heard when people were being interviewed for this article, it sounded like the writing was going to be a bit more extensive than what appeared in the paper. For those folks who were "misquoted" how 'bout writing into the opinion section of the LA Times and setting it straight. If you don't make any noise, who's going to hear you? Besides, whatever you write will most likely make the paper since it's in direct response to a previous article and it looks like The Times wants to give more focus to the other brown folks in this city. It's about freakin' time, no?
So what about the people who know nothing about Historic Filipinotown. Let's hope this article drives them to find out more. It's great publicity for SIPA, I can tell you that!
The question remains, is an economic center for Historic Filipinotown the right direction to go when the majority of the Filipino American community has yet to figure out how to work together? Is an economic center something that we, as a community really need? Maybe this area needs to grow as naturally as other Pilipino-centric areas have such as Panorama City, West Covina, Carson City and National City. How are you going to participate in the change? Talk is cheap.
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