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Tonight, the CUNY Board of Trustees approved my promotion to Distinguished Professor - making me the 1st Asian American & youngest at John Jay College & presumably the 1st Filipino American Distinguished Professor in CUNY. #FilipinoAmericanHistory #ThisIsWhatAProfessorLooksLike 
It’s not lost on me that this all happened during #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth & on #LarryItliongDay. Manong Larry came to the US in 1929 in search of a better life. While he wanted to be a lawyer & fight for justice for all, he was forced to work the fields & canneries instead.
The earlier Filipinos who came here in the early 1900s were met with racism, violence, & injustice. They were not allowed to vote, own property, marry outside of their race, or have basic civil rights. They were brutalized, lynched, & even killed. And the law didn’t protect them.
