ASA 02 - A02
May 31 , 2015
Week 10
I refuse to believe that the dream of the Asian American movement is over. Not when so many bright young minds make up the next generation to take center stage. But according to Lenin Ono, "John Lennon and Yoko Ono are integral to the history of the Asian American movement, with his murder went the spirit and substance of resistance and revolution that characterized it in its classic form prior to 1980," therefore "this made it infinitely easier for the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s to usher in the new era of hard-right political economic policy that led to the current state of seemingly insoluble crises caused by the wanton destruction of domestic industry, concerted attacks on organized labor, scaling back or elimination of social programs, defunding of public education, and all-out war against the formerly productive, prosperous, and vital middle class." (25)
Although Reagan's administration brought in sweeping change to the ideology of society as a whole for the worst, the responsibility of preventing such a "crises" cannot be all laid in the hands of celebrities, no matter how passionately radical they may be.
Given, there may not be enough Asian American radical leaders present or acknowledged, but there still lies opportunities for change. Opportunities to learn from history, opportunities to acknowledge one's place in the world and the magnitude of their voice in it. We cannot give up the dream that change can be established and injustices made right. Because people will always have something to say, it is whether or not people will be willing to listen.
Do you believe the dream of the Asian American movement is over?
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