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People like her with that mixed race, that type of mix, her dad is Filipino, her mom is white,
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has actually been persecuted.
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Historically speaking, you know this in Asian American Studies,
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these were not allowed.
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They're not just illegal, people died from this.
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Riots happened because of this.
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A riot in 1930 happened, in January 1930 happened,
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because white men were not happy that Filipinos were dancing with white women at the bar,
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at the dance halls, on top of the Great Depression, they blamed them for it.
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And it became this whole riot, this whole violence, bombing Filipino businesses,
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raining bullets in the house of Filipinos throughout California.
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And you know, these things, this riot sparked because of white women dancing with a young Filipino man,
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a dashing manong, we called them manong but they're not that old, they were young back then, you know.
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So for me, having her, her dad, and her mom's story too, I want to learn their story.
