The racial reckoning in higher ed has hit elite private schools like Princeton which had to deal with the racism of Woodrow Wilson. Harvard had presidents who owned slaves. And now the historical accounting has hit hard at the nation’s top rated public institution, where’ you’d think in the era of diversity it would want to cleanse itself from it’s racist past. 
Emil Guillermo
But it’s not easy at the University of California Berkeley, especially last week, the final week of Filipino American History Month.
After students protested against UC Berkeley’s 2020 South/Southeast Asia exhibit—specifically, a section on the Philippines that honored UC’s significant connection to the colonization of that country–UC’s Doe Library took it down Saturday night.
Victory? Not so fast. It meant on the last day of Filipino American History Month, while the overall exhibit still honored other South/Southeast Asian countries, Filipinos were left with nothing.
Literally.
It’s typical of the kind of insensitive institutional omission Filipinos have put up with in the past, and serves as an insult to those who look to history for a transformative sense of social justice.
