Week 11 Lenon Yoko Ono Ribhu Singh

This weeks reading by Hamamoto on the metaphorical "death" of the Asian american civil rights movement elucidated some scintillating questions that have implications that transcend the concern and purview of just the Asian American community. Hamamoto's reading, while interesting, propagates the complicity of the death of the Asian American community onto a very small segment of the Asian American population in a way that is antiquated and quite frankly preposterous. The premise of the Asian american community being "sold out" by a small subset of individuals who "engineered" the demise of the community for fiscal gain is a a cliched and trite presupposition that is inherently nuanced towards the suggestion that there is a some monolithic force that actively conspires against the hopes and goals of the community in a way that is intellectually platitudinous and reminiscent of the paranoid anti establishment ideology of the 1960's. This presupposition fits the mold of the stereotypical "conspiracy theory" to a tee, a fact corroborated by Hamamoto's reliance on small independent radio stations that are actively known to broadcast such material. Instead of focusing on vapid characterizations of the Asian American civil rights movement as a force that was destroyed by the actions of others, and trying to bolster the veracity of the conspiracy claims that are suggested by the proposition that the power that be are some monolithic force that actively try to retard the interests of the Asian American community we should be trying to find ways to solve some of the problems plaguing  the AAPI community. I am left wondering is such behavior as propagated by Hamamoto constructive?