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James Juanillo, a Filipino American in San Francisco just did his good deed for Black Lives Matter. It\u2019s part of what we\u2019re seeing all over America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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George Floyd has been laid to rest but new incidents, big and small, indicate the racial dynamic is changing in America for real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s like the collective knee of a race-weary nation is on the neck of every racist in America until things change. Or until they breathe their last breath.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Turnabout is fair play? In 2020, it seems to be finally happening\u2014a modern reckoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The woke are getting loud and woker, and the unwoke will have a chance to evolve until our knees are too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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We know the knee is on the neck of every police officer in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On Friday, a few days after Floyd\u2019s funeral, an Atlanta police officer fatally shot 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks who was simply sleeping in his car in a restaurant parking lot before being questioned by police. He had been drinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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But what was the crime? Video shows things escalated only after police decided to cuff Brooks and arrest him. Brooks resisted, ran off with an officer\u2019s non-lethal Taser and fired wildly at the pursuing officer, but missed. The white officer, Garrett Rolfe, responded by dumping his own Taser in favor of a handgun that he used to fatally shoot Brooks twice in the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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If Brooks were white, would he have been allowed a courtesy call to a family member to drive him home? Was there another option than to escalate a minor situation to \u201cshoot the black person\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The restaurant has now been burned down. The officer has been fired. And Brooks is added to the list of Black people killed by police. Will his family get justice? The police union has already said they believe the killing is justified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Those allied with #BLM must continue to push down on our collective knee.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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From Rayshard Brooks to James Juanillo<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n James Juanillo is a Filipino American who was stenciling the phrase \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d on the foundation of a house in the tony Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s when Lisa Alexander and Rob Larkins, two white people out for a Sunday jog, became distressed. They leaned in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Like all smartphone social warriors, Juanillo knew to get ready for a cellphone video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alexander can be seen asking Juanillo if it was his property. The assumption is that Juanillo, a Filipino, couldn\u2019t possibly live in Pacific Heights, and therefore is essentially tagging the property with non-permanent chalk. Citizen\u2019s arrest time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alexander\u2019s male companion, Larkins, chimes in like a good liberal (my assumption), and even concedes Juanillo is free to express an opinion but the question remains: is Juanillo defacing private property?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s when Alexander apparently lies by saying she and Larkins \u201cabsolutely do know\u201d who lives there and that\u2019s why they\u2019re asking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was all set up for Juanillo, who in fact lives in the home, to show the world yet another example of the racism that persists as white privilege in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The video\u2019s been viewed more than 15 million times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The confrontation happened earlier in the week, blew up on Twitter, and by Sunday, both Alexander and Larkins had issued public apologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alexander is the CEO of LaFace Skincare. As a result of the video, at least one company has stopped doing business with LaFace. And Alexander is now known as the second coming of the Central Park dog lady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Rob Larkins, a managing director of Raymond James, co-directed national pensions for cities in California. It\u2019s the definition of a \u201ccush white job.\u201d Who did he know to get that job? He\u2019s been in financial services for years. According to his bio, he\u2019s a Phi Beta Kappa Stanford grad who studied political science and likes to read about 20th Century American history. I wonder what he\u2019s read about racism? As I write, news reports say that Larkins didn\u2019t have the old boy network backing him up. He\u2019s been fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Video exposes acceptable Racism<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n He probably goes even further, saying the Juanillo video is just another sign of an untreated illness that resides in white people and that impacts people of color all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe can defend ourselves in various ways, but that doesn\u2019t stop the problem,\u201d Rev. Madison Shockley told his congregants on Sunday via Zoom. \u201cThe problem starts and stops with you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I met the Rev when we were both students at Harvard in the \u201870s when I suppose we were seen as the seed of some remedy to racism.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ve both changed a bit, but how about our white benefactors? Where\u2019s the change?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n To this day, put a Black man and a Filipino man next to, say, Jeffrey Epstein in his Harvard sweatshirt, and guess who the majority of Americans would say actually went to Harvard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Black reverend, the career ethnic journalist, or the now-dead white multi-millionaire pedophile who dropped out of Cooper Union?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n As Madison would say, \u201cWe\u2019ve got some work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n But things are starting to change a little faster in the wake of George Floyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n And it\u2019s happening in real-time. As I write, the Supreme Court of the United States has just ruled that LGBTQ people cannot be fired from their jobs because of their sexuality or gender. It\u2019s a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to the opinion written by a conservative, Neil Gorsuch. He joined another conservative, Chief Justice John Roberts, with the four liberal members to make a 6-3 majority against bigotry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Things are changing faster than I thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n EMIL GUILLERMO<\/strong> is a veteran journalist and commentator. He was a member of the Honolulu Advertiser editorial board. Listen to him on Apple Podcasts. 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No one has to die to feel the impact of racism. Asian American allies of #BLM know that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alexander and Larkins are examples of what my friend Rev. Madison Shockley would call a \u201cwell-meaning pure-hearted white person.\u201d The kind who doesn\u2019t realize that the advantages of slavery have always remained in the form of white privilege, the attitude that preserves white advantage in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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