The University of Florida reportedly spent at least $500,000 in security when White nationalist Richard Spencer came on campus to speak last week.
Now that’s pricey.
I know free speech isn’t free.
But mine was a bargain for the students and community last week in Stockton, Calif.
At the University of Pacific, I performed my one-man show — a historically-based monologue that touches on all the hot buttons of today. Racism, White nationalism, and violence all come up in my personal story being the son of a colonized Filipino who came to America in the 1930s and faced the same sort of thing we’re seeing today.
And of course, I tell it all with an ironic sense of humor.
About 100 students, faculty, and community members showed up at the Wendell Phillips Center lecture hall event to help honor Filipino American History Month, as established by the Filipino American National Historical Society.
