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Speak Up! Be Heard!
It’s a new semester, and Outspoken* has new student journalists and fresh ideas!* Outspoken is community forum for discussions of current events, lifestyle and cultural issues affecting the Asian American community. Get a take on the issues from two different perspectives. We also invite you to submit your own thoughts and opinions. A new topic will be discussed each week. The topic of the week is Reactions to the University of Colorado Campus Press article and is discussed by Patrick Lee and Lisa Leong. This article caused a public outrage from the Asian American community and the Outspoken writers react to the issue. Upcoming topics for March include Asian American Poverty, Asian Americans and Gambling, Asian American Food Trends, and Asian Americans and Awards shows.

RACISM ON CAMPUS
Vomit in a Bag by Patrick Lee The editorial ends with the author’s college email address and “©2008 Campus Press,” as if nothing extraordinarily inflammatory transpired in the preceding one thousand words. What I wonder about is not how many emails he received in protest to his blatantly abrasive and crude editorial, but how many he received thanking him or agreeing with his sentiments… [more]

Reacting to Racism by Lisa Leong Max Karson of Colorado University has given up on racial tolerance. Karson wrote a controversial column for the campus paper titled “If it’s war the Asians want…It’s war they’ll get,” in which he outlines an attack on the souls of Asian people. The self-called “No more ‘Mr. Pretend-I’m-not-Racist,’” says that “tolerance” and “cultural sensitivity” are over (his scare quotes, not mine). Karson declares a race war: “They hate us all… It’s time we started hating them back.”… [more]


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