On a business trip to Greensboro, N.C., I made my way to the Woolworth's where four African American students staged a "sit-in" in the 1960's to protest segregation. It's where the Civil Rights Movement started. While I can't own their fight, I personally share in the discussion about race in America.
What I do feel swept up in being a Filipino American is the larger need people of Asian-American descent have for making race a "non-issue." The need to "blend" into a mainstream America--one many of us perceive as a Caucasian America--is pervasive and compelling. As much as we rail against race as a factor in judging a person, we exercise it just as often.
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