Taking a brief break

As our summer program comes to an end today for 2008, the youth will be taking a 2-week break. The staff will be consolidating the materials and post them here if they haven’t been posted yet. So the posting will be sporadic. The youth will be back once school starts up again, but the postings probably won’t be as frequent as they are during the summer.

RACISM

By: Joshua Tou Yeng Yang

I live in this world ruled by race,

But I see tears of my people,

Tears of the Hmong,

The tears of the young crying for their moms.

The discrimination for the sad stories our parents told us about the Vietnam War,

Being the blame why the U.S. lost the War.

Being mistaken everywhere we go,

Being call Chinese,

Being call chink,

It hurts my heart and my soul.

and

Maybe one day the Hmong people will find hope.

Until then our people will face this discrimination.