Silent Lonesome Man

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1399499780712243201 When former Trump security advisor Michael Flynn attended a QAnon parade, where he made an infamous speech calling for a coup d'etat to occur - with the echoes from the Republicans, we have to be startled to hear this. Trump's megalomania about the rigged election, never found any evidence to support such a theory, appears to be far from over. Trump's followers insist that Trump is still the legal President, pointing out how the coup in Myanmar could serve as an inspiration for many Trumpers. This disgusting phenomenon went viral and Flynn tried to backtrack from his earlier words, but it didn't impress 2/3 Americans as well as the rest of the democratic world. Given how Flynn was pardoned by Trump and returned to become Trump's servant, having been sacked by Trump before, it showed how Trumpism actually developed. This also captured my belief about the Vietnamese Americans, and its large diaspora's ima...

  The murder of six Asian women by a white racist in Atlanta seriously rattled my emotions. I knew that anti-Asian sentiment has always had a long history in the United States since 19th century, but never thought it would exacerbate so far during the COVID-19 pandemic. It occurred since the former President Donald Trump frequently repeated the speeches of "Chinese virus" or "Wuhan virus", but has no clear insight about Asian Americans. Subsequently, Trump's ignorance inflamed the racist fervour among the racist segments, which had been greatly blessed by Donald Trump's four years reign, to spread its anti-Asian hatred. And when Joe Biden became President, the sentiment exaggerated even further, as people injected with Trump's racist ideology found themselves insecure with Biden Administration. Yet, one group of Asian Americans have stayed deaf when widespread anti-Asian violence is happening. The Vietnamese Americans have, so far, demonstrated little to...

I grew up being Vietnamese, and I have a divisive family. A father who is a fervent anti-communist but drunk and violent, and a mother who herself is a high-ranking official working as a judge in a State Court in Hanoi, a caring woman but arrogant. Being born in such a unique family of a communist mother and an anti-communist father shaped my experience with both anti-communist Vietnamese and the pro-communist Vietnamese, and this made me have a clearer insight into the communist party that has reigned Vietnam ever since the Fall of Saigon in 1975, and the vast majority of Vietnamese abroad who are 80%, anti-communist. I don't think I am a bridge, but circumstances made me so. For me, I am always interested to see the opinions of Vietnamese Americans, the largest Vietnamese diaspora in the world. The history of Vietnamese immigration to the U.S. is just a recent contemporary one, yet pretty much connected to the tragic history of Vietnamese people. The Vietnam War, began from 1956-...