links for 2008-06-12
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“Aged four, he was sent from his home to a series of state-run church boarding schools, where he was stripped of his language, religion and culture. He was physically and sexually abused. “
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“Their educational backgrounds, the report said, vary widely: while most of the nation’s Hmong and Cambodian adults have never finished high school, most Pakistanis and Indians have at least a bachelor’s degree.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
deb wrote:
Not to hijack, but this is Racialicious and it’s June 12th. No mention of Loving Day?
Happy Loving Day!
Posted 12 Jun 2008 at 2:37 pm ¶
Genevieve wrote:
I’d like to point out that most Americans are unaware of the existence of the Hmong at all, or the Hmong-American population, or of Hmong involvement in the Vietnam War, so awareness of problems a lot of Hmong-Americas have isn’t really going to be that high.
This commenter is ashamed to say she did not know about the Hmong before moving to a city in Wisconsin several years ago with a high Hmong (Thai, Laotian, and Chinese) population. She places the blame squarely on American public school history classes.
Posted 13 Jun 2008 at 9:06 am ¶