Category: Candid Perspectives
Super Bowl Made Me Wonder: Will There Ever Be Another Roman Gabriel?
by Emil Guillermo Last week, during Super Bowl LVI (56), I was thinking about Roman Gabriel, 81. Gabriel is the first Filipino American quarterback to [Read More…]
Filipino Chief Justice Would Have Been Perfect, But Not Now
by Emil Guillermo If you’re an Asian American Filipino, you don’t stand a chance. Such is the case when it comes to SCOTUS politics. On [Read More…]
What the Voting Rights Fight Says About Presidential Power
by Emil Guillermo If you are a post-2000 immigrant to the US, take some time this week to think about democracy, your right to vote, [Read More…]
The Jan. 6th Insurrectionists Aren’t Worthy Of The Name
by Emil Guillermo It’s been a year since the Jan. 6th Capitol Riots of 2021. Please don’t call the perps “insurrectionists.”Call them what they are. [Read More…]
Just In Time For Christmas – The Right to Vote?
by Emil Guillermo It’s Christmas time. Is there anyone out there pining for the right to vote? It is a democracy, after all. Even though [Read More…]
As 2021 Winds Down, the Ahmaud Arbery Trial Gives Us a Lesson in How To Get Racial Justice
by Emil Guillermo I’m still digesting all that’s happened this Thanksgiving holiday. I’m vegan, so it was all fake turkey. But the justice was real. [Read More…]
Why Every Day Is Veterans Day If You’re Filipino Americans
by Emil Guillermo Veterans Day has passed, but in Hawaii, you could be commemorating all year and not honor everyone who deserves recognition. And that’s [Read More…]
Larry Itliong Had Principles, Gen. Powell Had Medals
by Emil Guillermo November is the month everyone stands back recovers from October, Filipino American History Month. I can’t let it go without one last [Read More…]
A Filipina American Nobel Peace Prize Winner – A Journalist
by Emil Guillermo Wherever you are reading this, on the web or in your hands as a physical newspaper, value it. Journalism is an instrument [Read More…]
Neither Pacquiao Nor Trump Fit For The Presidency of Anything
by Emil Guillermo Manny Pacquiao wants to be president of the Philippines. That’s no joke. But it should be. Not even I want Manny Pacquiao [Read More…]
