In case you missed the presidential memo, it’s Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
That’s right, A-A-N-H-P-I-H-M. Or, “AANHPIHM.”
Is that pronounced “An hippie hymn”? You mean like Iron Butterfly’s “Innagaddadavida”? (Shout out to all you American Studies profs who recall the Summer of Love).
As an acronym, AANHPIHM does not sing, but President Joe Biden did approve the name in a proclamation with the new name just before May began, and so, it stands. Biden is not normally tone deaf on these matters, showing a real penchant for Irish poetry in his early presidential rhetoric. Maybe it was a long day.
Still, I honor AANHPIHM and am pleased to announce we have our higher ed “poster boy.”
It’s Sirey Zhang who has declared his innocence on the front page of the Sunday New York Times this weekend.
Zhang is blasting away at the negative stereotype of the AANHPIHM person who lacks the courage and good sense to speak up. Zhang’s showing some guts standing up to the bullying of Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine.
