1854: People v. Hall - Asian History

 

1854: People v. Hall determines that Chinese people cannot testify against white defendants

With hate crimes against Asian Americans skyrocketing during the pandemic, many choose the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act as a historic marker for how they are treated in the U.S. Rather, in 1854 California Supreme Court case of People v Hall. George Hall had been convicted of murder through the testimony of three Chinese eyewitnesses.

On appeal, the court disqualified the testimony. 

California banned specific groups (“Negros, blacks, Indians, and mullatoes”) from testifying against whites, but “Chinese” was not included. 

This judge became legislator by interpreting, through his convoluted logic, that the Chinese were “Indian” and/or “Black.” The opinion spewed vile racism citing the eminent threat that if Chinese people can testify against whites, they would become full equal citizens. This marks the beginning of how discrimination against Asians became the norm.

Hall got away with murder.

People v Hall

RAANTHAI PACKAGE REVIEW

                                  

*TAKEN FROM THE WEBSITE*

RaanThai offers Europe's largest online selection of fresh, frozen and packaged Thai food and other Oriental foodstuffs, with next-working-day delivery available to your home or business. Thousands of products are available, and more are added weekly.

They are based in the UK (thank mother nature for that). When it comes to ordering you have to spend over £20 which I think is good and you can easily do that, I always do because they have a wide range of foreign food from Thailand, Philippines, Japan, Korea, Malaya, Indonesia and China. Postage is £5.58 plus tax.

RaanThai Oriental Supermarket

Unit A2, North Cheshire Trading Estate

Preston, Merseyside, CH43 3DU

Memorial Day For Comfort Woman in South Korea 14th March

      Memorial Day in South Korea for Comfort Woman

The international memorial day was held for Asian women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

The National ceremony marking the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women took place at the Hill of National Commemoration in Cheonan, south of Seoul, with the slogan of "memory for the future."

About 100 people, including elderly Korean women sexually enslaved by the imperial Japanese army, participated.

South Koreans have called on Japan to offer a sincere apology and compensation for the victims, but the neighbouring country has remained silent.

It is the third time that the government has hosted a national ceremony commemorating the day since 2018, when it was designated a national memorial day. 

The International Memorial Day for Comfort Women falls on Aug. 14th, the day when the late Kim Hak-soon, a former comfort woman, first publicly testified about Japan operating an organized military brothel program during the war in 1991.

"The testimony by Kim Hak-soon resonated across the globe, revealing the truth and the violence against women," she said. "Now we have to think of what we can learn from the tragedy in history."

The government then opened a digital archive that stored more than 500 files of documents and materials on "comfort women," a euphemistic term for the former sex slaves. 

The online depository (www.archive814.co.kr) includes reports by the United Nations forces during the Korean War and official statements by the Japanese government.

Up to 200,000 women, mostly Koreans, were coerced into sexual servitude in front-line Japanese brothels when the Korean Peninsula was a Japanese colony.

Love Language's

Hello you beautiful people today we are going to talk about love, more specifically what your love language is.

Their are 5 love languages:

1: Words of Affirmation

2: Quality time

3: Receiving gifts

4: Acts of service 

5: Physical touch

Describing love languages: 

- Word of Affirmations - Expressing verbal communication/ compliments/ praise and appreciation on your partner.

- Quality time - giving someone your undivided / focused/ unlimited attention regularly.

- Receiving gifts - Giving gifts as a symbol of love and affection.

- Acts of service - Completing tasks/ actions to show your love, cooking/ washing dishes/ cleaning.

- Physical Touch - Feeling affection through physical touch/ holding hands/ sex/ kissing/ cuddling.

My Results: 

My primary language is physical touch by 37%

I am very touchy, hugs, thoughtful touches on the arm, pat on the back can all be ways to show excitement, concern, care and love.

Physical presence and accessibility are crucial, while neglect or abuse are unforgivable and destructive.

Appropriate and timely touches communicate warmth, safety and love to me.

Quality time 33%

words of affirmation 13%

Acts of service 13%

Receiving gifts 3%

#LifeInaDay2020

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 Take Part 

In 2020, history is being made every day. 

Australian bushfires. Civil unrest in Hong Kong. A pandemic that took precious lives and changed the way we live. Protests in every corner of America — and around the world — to demand that Black Lives Matter. But in the midst of these extraordinary events, everyday life still continues.

We share moments, music, and meals.

We dance. We laugh. We cry.

We love. We fear. We hope.

What if we captured all of it in a single day? On Saturday, July 25, 2020, film your day and upload your footage and you may become part of a historic documentary – a time capsule of the year 2020. 

Anyone can participate and submissions from all over the world will be woven together to create a feature film, produced by Ridley Scott, directed by Kevin Macdonald, filmed by you, and premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

Submissions open on July 25th and close on August 2nd.

Let’s write the story of 2020 together.

LGBTQ Book's and Films

LGBTQ Book's:

1: Call my by your name by Andrea Aciman

2: Gay Britania

3: Red, White and Blue by Casey Mcquiston 

4: We were always here by Ryan Vance

5: Maurice by E. M Forster

6: Fanny and Steller by Neil Mckenna

7: The joy of sex by Charles Silver stein

8: They both die in the end by Adam Silvera

9: The son of Achilles by Madeline Miller

10: Queer City by Peter Ackford 

LGBTQ Film's: 

1: My own private Idaho 

2: Call me by your name

3: Boys don't cry

4: Dallas buyers club

5: Queer As Folk - Series

6: Happy together

7: Method

8: Long time no see

9: Boys Love

10: Dark blue kiss

Manchester

So the other day I took myself out for a day in Manchester and it was amazing I got lost a few times found myself at oxford street I think and visited china town.

Also I went on a big wheel that was there as well not I am usually a person who is fearless and tries everything once I have never been scared of height's never.

UNTIL....

I went on the Big Wheel...

OMFG! 

From the moment I sat down I could feel my tummy just drop I never moved an inch at all I was holding on for my life if anyone saw me they would have laughed at me, Then to make things worse when we were at the top it stopped and I panicked even more then the wind started rocking it, never again, never.

When I got off I had to have a moment to find my legs and when I got home a hour later my tummy still felt crazy.

FILM: Naked 1993



Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very much like his own.

A must see film i just watched it awesome - ness

I love this film (i just want to marry David) the start of this film was a bit shocking because it starts with a rape but every thing else was brill i am so glad i watched it. The film was made in 1993 by mike Leigh and he casted the actors perfectly.

Nelson Mandela

The death of Nelson Mandela has affected an array of people throughout the world. The 95-year-old civil rights leader was more than the face of post-Apartheid South Africa, he was the embodiment of a movement that asked for basic human dignity regardless of colour or creed.

Honoured throughout his life for his works with HIV/AIDS, social justice, and poverty, the Nobel Peace Prize winner also touched many in the world of fashion.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary as well as a politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

In April 1959, militant Africanists dissatisfied with the ANC's united front approach founded the Pan-African Congress (PAC); Mandala's friend Robert Sobukwe was elected president, though Mandela thought the group "immature". Both parties campaigned for an anti-pass campaign in May 1960, in which Africans burned the passes that they were legally obliged to carry. One of the PAC-organised demonstrations was fired upon by police, resulting in the deaths of 69 protesters in the Sharpeville massacre. In solidarity, Mandela publicly burned his pass as rioting broke out across South Africa, leading the government to proclaim martial law. Under the State of Emergency measures, Mandela and other activists were arrested on 30 March, imprisoned without charge in the unsanitary conditions of the Pretoria Local prison, while the ANC and PAC were banned in April. This made it difficult for their lawyers to reach them, and it was agreed that the defence team for the Treason Trial should withdraw in protest. Representing themselves in court, the accused were freed from prison when the state of emergency was lifted in late August. Mandela used his free time to organise an All-In African Conference near Pietermaritzburg, Natal, in March, at which 1,400 anti-apartheid delegates met, agreeing on a stay-at home protest to mark 31 May, the day South Africa became a republic. On 29 March 1961, after a six-year trial, the judges produced a verdict of not guilty, embarrassing the government.

Mandela died of a lung infection on 5 December 2013 at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg. He was 95 years of age and surrounded by his family. His death was announced by President Jacob Zuma. On 6 December Zuma announced a national mourning period of ten days, with the main event being an official memorial service to be held at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on 10 December 2013. Mandala's body will lie in state from 11 to 13 December at the Union Buildings in Pretoria and a state funeral will be held on 15 December 2013 in Qunu.



FILM: Olympus Has Fallen

I am not good at reviews really so i will just talk about it my way.

Olympus Has Fallen.

Disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack; using his inside knowledge, Banning works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.

What i had to say about it:

What a great film it had me sweating and on the edge of my seat.

The best for me was it didn't hold back on the blood and guts which is good and their is no sloppy love story its just kill, kill, kill.

Let me just say as well Gerard Butler has never looked soon hotter.



Catalonia, Gerona, Spain

So this is everything i got up to in Spain..