Filipino veterans, forgotten heroes of WWII
June 2, 2012 – 7:40 PM | No Comment

World War II conjures many words and places to mind: Pearl Harbor, Manzanar, the beach of Normandy, Hiroshima, perhaps even the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the all-Japanese American team that emerged from the war as …

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Articles by Tony Le

Collateral Damage of Full Metal Jacket
June 4, 2012 – 11:26 PM | 3 Comments

When Gunnery Sergeant Hartman said, “There is no racial bigotry here,” I knew that Full Metal Jacket would make me want to throw up in disgust.
The film did not disappoint.

Iron Man 3: Rise of the Mandarin?
May 10, 2012 – 7:53 PM | No Comment

With the success of The Avengers, media consumers like myself can’t help but look to the future and think, “What next?”  Well, what’s next is Iron Man 3.  But now I’m wondering, what does the …

Vietnamese Americans and Cambodian Americans sue BP over Oil Spill
May 4, 2012 – 10:37 AM | No Comment

In an email sent to contractors in the Gulf Oil Spill, BP specifically told them not to hire vessels owned by Vietnamese Americans and Cambodian Americans in the oil spill clean-up. Despite the fact that …

Complex Colors: Dustin Nguyen
December 1, 2011 – 9:00 PM | No Comment

When I first started reading comics in the summer of 2010, I was expecting comics to possess the same quality that most popular media in my life did: a lack of diversity.   Despite the abundance …

Filipino Americans in the Occupy Wall Street Movement
October 22, 2011 – 9:58 PM | No Comment

As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads across the nation, so does its message resound across groups of the underrepresented. Filipino Americans have joined the protestors in San Francisco’s financial district as they demand accountability …