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In response to Mark Lee’s “Hutchison” column …

June 4, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

To the Editor: [I would like to] thank [Mark Lee] for [his] article about Susan Hutchison, candidate for King County Executive (which appeared in issue 23 on May 23). I would not have known about her lawsuit regarding replacement “from the prime news anchor spots with an Asian female who is substantially younger.”

Filed Under: Opinion, Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Bettie Luke, King County Executive, Mark Lee, Seattle, Susan Hutchison, vol 28 no 24 | June 6 - June 12

In response to Mark Lee’s “Hutchison” column …

June 4, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

To the Editor: Mr. Mark Lee seems to either forget or ignore the recent history and events preceding this lawsuit in making his assumption that race was not a factor in considering the choice of Kristy Lee to replace Susan Hutchison.

Filed Under: Opinion, Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Kristy Lee, Kweisi Mfume, Mark Lee, NAACP, Susan Hutchison, William Turnbull, vol 28 no 24 | June 6 - June 12

Letter: “It was rigged” Reader says pageant story inaccurate, UW VSA officers rude

May 7, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly 6 Comments

In response to the “Pageant recrowns winner due to counting error” story (May 2, issue 19), I think the facts are strongly misconstrued …

Filed Under: Opinion, Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Kim Bui, Letter It, Linda Nguyen, Miss Hoa Khoi Lien Truong, UW, VSA, Vietnamese

Letter: Voong fingerpointing is misguided

May 1, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

I appreciated the interview with Bai Ling (April 18, issue 17) — I love that girl. I just wish she would have commented on her role in “Beautiful Country.” …

Filed Under: Opinion, Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Bai Ling April, Beautiful Country, Jiverly Voong, Letter Voong, Seattle, Takeru Kamiyama

Letter: What’s in a “Voong” name?

April 16, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

It seems that with another Asian shooter in the news, again our media is quick to focus on the shooter’s ethnicity …

Filed Under: Opinion, Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Charles Liu, Chinese American, Vietnamese American, attention

LETTER: Is it possible to have genuine empathy?

March 19, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

What moved me to write a letter to your newspaper, as I read about the experience of Thavisouk “Thavi” Phrasavath in Laos (in issue 12), is because I found I couldn’t bear it …

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Laos, Mac Crary, Seattle, letter

LETTER: Thanks for speaking up about Cyrus

March 19, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

Thank you for your recent editorial on Miley Cyrus …

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Bettie Luke, Cyrus Oh Miley Chinky, Ninette Cheng, Seattle, editorial, letter, margaret cho, miley cyrus

LETTER: Hypocrisy runs deep in Miley Cyrus fingerpointing

February 27, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly 1 Comment

As a Caucasian who speaks fluent Chinese, I find it amusing that Chinese in normal conversation will use terms such as “yang guei dz” — foreign devil or ghost, “shao bai gwei” — little white devil or ghost, “Hei Guei” — black devil or ghost, and refer to Americans as “Wai Gwo Ren” — foreigners …

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Chinese, Hei Guei, letter, miley cyrus

LETTER: OCA wants voices to add to blog about Cyrus

February 19, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly 2 Comments

The Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) National Center has posted what we hope will be a very important blog entry concerning the recent flood of media coverage around Miley Cyrus’ “slant-eye” photo …

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: APA, OCA, attention, blog, letter, miley cyrus

LETTER: Thank you to the NWAW Foundation

February 12, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

On behalf of our client families at Family Services, I thank the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation …

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: 2009, CEO, Family Services, Kresge Foundation, Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation, Rotary Support Center, Ruthann Howell, letter

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