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Asian Immigrants Number Nearly 1.6 Million in L.A., More Than in New York

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626 Night Market in Pasadena
When President Obama said at the debate last night that "talent" from around the world wants to come to the United States, he wasn't kidding.

And they all want to come to L.A.

The U.S. Census this week announced that Los Angeles has more foreign-born Asians than any other city in America:


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University of California Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold Affirmative Action

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The Daily Bruin
Campus protests will mean nothing until Prop. 209 is struck down.
Just call us the Bleeding Heart State:

Yesterday, leading up to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Texas that will determine once and for all the constitutionality of considering race in university admissions, California Attorney General Kamala Harris joined the nation's most prestigious public university system -- the University of California -- in supporting a race-sensitive admissions process. (Oh, and the Obama Administration chimed in, too.)

Both Harris and UC President Mark Yudof submitted heartfelt legal briefings to the Supreme Court, making the case that California's voter-approved ban on affirmative action has...

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Russell Pearce, Arizona's Immigration Law Author, Says Villaraigosa a Tool of Mexico

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Dennis Romero
Mayor V.
Russell Pearce is the psycho ex-state senator from Arizona who authored its infamous anti-illegal-immigration law, SB 1070. (By psycho, we mean this: Pearce recently wrote that the victims in the Aurora massacre should have risen up and taken the suspect down. Yeah).

The Arizona Republic recently published emails from 2007 that the paper says proves Pearce was motivated by racism when he authored the bill that now allows cops in that state to investigate whether brown folks they stop are in the country illegally.

In the emails, Pearce also had a few choice words for our own mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa:

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Kim Jung Un Clowned on Ashley Madison Billboard Near LAX: Anyone Offended?

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ashleymadison.com
Conservative radio talk-show hosts John & Ken aren't the only people in town who think making fun of Asians is okay.

The cheaters'-dating website Ashley Madison today announced it has erected a billboard near LAX that punks Korean dictator Kim Jung Un and his portly, vertically challenged appearance.

The advertisement was launched on the occasion of ...

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Mexicans Are Asian (And Other Shockers About the First Americans)

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Latin American Asians.
This particular author loves to see the look on the faces of some pan-Pacific immigrants when he tells them Asians and Mexicans are brothers and sisters from way back; we're practically related. (It's a look of repulsion, shock and denial, followed by vomiting.)

Of course, all humans are brothers and sisters from way back, no matter how repulsed you are.

New research not only confirms that original inhabitants of the Americas came from Asia, but that ...

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Minorities Paid More For Wells Fargo Home Loans in L.A? Feds Settle For $175 Mil

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thetruthabout.com
A foreclosed home.
Since before the days of Ronald Reagan's "welfare queen," the racist's take on the American minority is often that she is a moocher, a taker of food stamps and "living on the dole."

The reality, of course, is that life is often harder for American minorities, who sometimes pay more for stuff but get paid less on the job. In 2005 American Honda Finance settled a series of class-action lawsuits because it allegedly charged minority customers more for car loans.

Now it's Wells Fargo's turn at proving why the American Dream still has a different cover charge for people of color:

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UCLA Students Occupy Admissions Office, Demand Affirmative Action (VIDEO)

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The Daily Bruin
"Protesters in the #UCLA admissions office with signs, chanting 'Educate, don't segregate.'"
Update, 7 p.m.: UCLA police confirm to the Daily Bruin that 13 students have been arrested for unlawful assembly.

Update, 6:55 p.m.: At least 10 protesters, and by some counts 13, have reportedly been arrested for refusing to leave the Admissions Office.

Approximately 30 minority students (and some non-minority supporters) have taken over the UCLA admissions office this Friday afternoon, refusing to leave until the university agrees to admit at least twice as many minority applicants.

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Trayvon Martin Gets the Shepard Fairey Treatment in Ebony Magazine

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obeygiant.com
To appear in this week's copy of Ebony.
It was only a matter of time before L.A. street artist (turned international graphic-design star and Obama portraiteer) Shepard Fairey took on Trayvon.

We're actually surprised it didn't happen sooner. Though there remains the sporadic rally cry for the young black Florida teen's murderer to be brought to justice, including a star-studded protest in L.A. last month, the news event is largely in the tail curve of its Internet popularity. Perhaps that's why Ebony Magazine tries to revive the cause in this week's issue:

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Sharon Stone's Ex-Nanny, Erlinda Elemen, Says Actress Insulted Her for Being Filipina

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Rage mode.
L.A.'s huge Filipino community might have a new enemy in Hollywood:

Basic Instinct actress Sharon Stone, who's no stranger to litigation from the help, is being sued by Erlinda T. Elemen, her three children's former live-in nanny, for allegedly criticizing her Filipino heritage. Also, for allegedly getting rid of the nanny because she accepted the overtime pay that Stone offered her...

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Ashton Kutcher Is A Philandering, Racist Toolbag? VIDEO

A real piece of work.
Updated at the bottom with the ad pulled completely.

Ashton Kutcher is a true moralist who has made no secret of his distaste for sex traffickers, adult classified advertising, and men who employ prostitutes (U.S. Secret Service agents be damned). He even launched an ad campaign called "Real Men Don't Buy Girls."

Then he allegedly cheated on his wife, Demi Moore, with a 22-year-old woman who said Kutcher insisted on ditching the condom.

Yep. Now That '70s Preacher is giving us a lesson in race relations:

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You Can Buy an 'I Survived the L.A. Riots' Shirt for $200 on eBay

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eBay
The city burned down and all I got was this overpriced T-shirt.
Can't get enough of the L.A. Riots' (completely oversaturated) 20th birthday coverage?

This hot-ticket eBay T-shirt might be just thing. "I Survived the L.A. Riots," it reads across the front, with a map of the city's hardest-hit burn spots on back. Also, awesome factoids, like "Vandals set more than 523 blazes" and "6,000 National Guards, Marines and Federal Troops descend on L.A."

All this disaster nostalgia can be yours for just...

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Trayvon Martin's Parents Are in L.A. for Justice Rally -- Along With Al Sharpton, Stevie Wonder

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Trayvon's rally will be set in the dazzling West Angeles Church.
When black Florida teen Trayvon Martin was shot dead by apparently crazed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman earlier this year, his parents -- Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton -- took on the sudden responsibility, like it or not, of becoming justice fighters against the greater evil of racism in America. Their every reaction became a headline, their grief a symbol of national hurt.

But you couldn't have picked a more graceful pair. Here they are on Capitol Hill, just weeks after the senseless shooting:

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Asian American Video About Deported Cambodians Rejected by Obama's White House

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studiorevolt
A White House contest asking people to create the best video about the Asian American experience might have been rigged.

An entry about Cambodian deportees appeared to have received the most views, now more than 18,000, but a half-dozen other video makers were invited to the White House. Though "My Asian Americana" made a list of 11 finalists, it didn't make that final cut.

Here's probably why:


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We're All Just Getting Along Fine 20 Years After L.A. Riots, Survey Says

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South Normandie Avenue near the ignition point.
If you remember the aftermath of the riots, things were dire in Los Angeles, and it seemed like every other white family had left town for the Pacific Northwest.

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the uprisings and chaos, Loyola Marymount University has released a survey measuring the temperature of our city, especially when it comes to race relations.

The results could be skewed:

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Hispanics Are Not Hispanic

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mike72ka
There was a time when uttering the word Mexican was impolite.

Cops in Southern California would call anyone with brown skin a Mexican. And those of us who were born here preferred other terms such as Mexican American, Chicano and Latino. How could you tell if someone was born here by looking at them, anyway, people argued?

Times change, however, and Chicano is about is contemporary as a beeper. And now brown folks don't much care for Latino or Hispanic, either:


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Trayvon Martin Hoodie Photo Project by L.A. DJ Adam 12 Features 'Freeway' Rick Ross, Others

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Adam 12
Indigo Charlie.
Adam 12, the sometime DJ for President Obama's campaign fund-raising and a photographer as well, embarked on a project over the weekend to bring attention to the Trayvon Martin case.

He photographed several musical and cultural luminaries in hooded sweatshirts. (Teen Martin was unarmed and wearing a "hoodie" when he was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Florida in February).

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Hate Crime in Palmdale? Black Kids Say They Beat Up 15-Year-Old 'Because He Was Hispanic'

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palmdalesd.org
What's going on at Palmdale Unified?
Did a race-baiting Facebook post lead seven black teens to smash in the face of a random Latino 15-year-old on March 14?

L.A. County Sheriff's Detective Chris Bergo says that while interviewing the seven suspects, one of them -- who attends Cactus Middle School in Palmdale -- "talked about a Facebook post where Hispanics were going to beat up the blacks."

So they allegedly went to the Cactus Middle area looking for a fight...

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Trayvon Martin Town Hall in Los Angeles

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As L.A.'s own Trayvon Martin case appears to be erupting in Pasadena, the radio station KJLH (102.3 FM) is hosting a town hall discussion about the Florida shooting tomorrow.

Some of the African American community's biggest luminaries will be there, and it's free and open to the public.

Here's the 411:



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Million Hoodie March For Trayvon Martin Today in Los Angeles

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Update at 11:20 a.m. See LA Weekly contributor Ted Soqui's photos from Monday's march here. First posted at 7:09 a.m. yesterday.

A demonstration seeking justice for an unarmed 17-year-old shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida will kick off in downtown Los Angeles today.

The case of Trayvon Martin, an African American teen who was walking to a family friend's home near Orlando when he was was shot last month, has set the nation abuzz over race: His shooter, 26-year-old George Zimmerman, has not been arrested.

The Million Hoodie March ...

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Black Kids at LAUSD Suspended at Alarming Rate: Are Teachers, Principals Guilty of Racial Profiling?

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laprogressive.com
Principal's office. Now.
In reaction to the L.A. riots, black flight from Los Angeles whittled the K-12 population down to only 9 percent African-American, as of the 2009-10 school year.

But those roughly 61,000 black kids are being punished much more harshly than white, Asian or Latino kids, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education.

And the trend is worse in L.A. than other major cities with higher ratios of black kids...

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