Updates with The Crew

Thank you to the members of the Kuya Ate Mentorship Program (KAMP) for participating in our tentatively titled "Filipino American Activism Community Forum" last Sunday!

My personal message:
It was a lot of fun and it brought my energy level up being with you guys. Keep on doing what you guys are doing one student at a time. With your genuine vision, you guys are moving mountains and shaping the lives of young adults.

To give a preview of what it was like, I'm going to cut and paste part of the outline that Ed Dawg diligently composed:

COMMUNITY PROFILE: Kuya Ate Mentorship Program (KAMP)

In San Diego County, Filipino Americans (also known as FilAms) comprise a significant portion of the total population (close to 10% across the board). Furthermore, the FilAms in San Diego, particularly youth and young adults, are fast becoming active and assuming the roles of “change agents” of their respective communities, particularly in the midst of social and political change in the FilAm community as well as the greater portion of San Diego County.

How this may result will be reliant on how Fil-Ams in San Diego “come of age” as a social group and how this diverse group shape their own direction in the future.

As a start and for a pending event in April, The Backroom Podcast will be profiling and interviewing one of the active community groups composed and driven by FilAm youth and young adults in San Diego.

Known as “KAMP”, short for “Kuya Ate Mentorship Program”, this program strives to “foster youth leadership skills, encourage young minds to seek and critically understand” the FilAm Community “from social and global standpoints” and to a certain degree foster the relatively nascent sense of community awareness and activism.

This is something that myself and The Crew have been working on lately. This is our baby that we plan to nurture for the next few months.

Stay tuned for more updates. Please visit our site at www.ftstechnology.com/backroom. KAMP episode will be posted up soon.

Warning: Content might PYO.

PYO = Piss You Off.

My older brother who is also one of the founders of FTS Technology Solutions/114 Entertainment showed me this YouTube video on Thanksgiving Day:



Although this doesn't directly hit home for me, I am disappointed at how blessed people are, yet they choose to be ignorant toward other people's culture. It makes me shake my head "no" and wonder if there will ever be a day that we'll rise above this kind of sh*t.

I actually interviewed one of the Minutemen and for a second I was scared that they were going to lynch me. I tried to interview this one guy named Jeff, but he couldn't even look me in the eye. Maybe deep down inside he knew that he was wrong. Another man wearing a "Minutemen" hat called me a racist because I was wearing an NCLR Media badge.

"You're a racist!" he yelled at me. He must have been in his mid 50s or something.

Either way, it looked like his wrinkly face was melting underneath his white set of hair worn tacky with a black Minutemen hat.

"Excuse me?" I said, wondering he couldn't possibly be talking to me!

Then he pointed at my media badge and said, "You're with the racist group!"

By this point, I knew that no matter what I would try to argue back with him, he would never change his mind on how he felt about me. Instead of trying to prove a point and probably getting into an emotional argument, I decided to just ignore the mother f*cker and continue trying to find my interview.

Unfortunately, the interview got erased. This has to do with my lack of knowledge on my voice recorder since I bought it a couple of weeks ago at the time.

In a way, I'm glad the interview got erased because I don't want to be associated with them.

Don't get me wrong. I believe that they somewhat try to uphold the values of the Constitution. Just replace "We the People" with "We the White People..."

Simply put, they crazy!!!