“Black April” Fifty Years Later: Thinking About Vietnam’s Anti-communists
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There is something surreal about the political posturing of the anti-communist refugees. Chuck O'Connell #blackapril
The fall of Sàigòn 50 years ago had a lasting impact on multiple generations.
This episode discusses what it means to be Vietnamese today and how members of the diaspora can move forward without letting the war define them.
#fallofsaigon50 #vietnamwar #blackapril
Today's the start of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Month #aanhpi #aapi✊️💛
As a #vietnameseamerican child of refugees due to #blackapril, I struggled between two cultures, which I explore in my #poem "Casualty or Celebration?"
You can read it here: medium.com/p/83baa14f3f...
A picture of me with dyed blond hair with my mom and we both wear all black attire.
A picture of the venue with wood chairs and audience members sitting as they observe black stave with number 50 in yellow on stage and emblem showing yellow silhouette of Vietnam with white letters 50.
Wore black w/ mom to honor #blackapril or #april30 - the 50th Anniversary of the #fallofsaigon & the end of the #vietnamwar 🖤💛
As the son of Viet refugees 💛, I'm glad to hear from Viet artists & writers today at a community event in City Hall in San Jose, CA by the Vietnamese American Roundtable
Aka #BlackApril
My art for National Day of Resentment in my country. The day our country Vietnam lost freedom.
#FallofSaigon #BlackApril
Donad threw the country into Reverse, backed us straight into a quagmire, now. He is finding out this reality game show doesn’t have ‘phone a friend’
No mulligans, bitch. You wrecked us!
#BlackApril
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
#BlackMonday #BlackApril #OrangeMonday
And this time, industry is in on it.
Why haven't the feds bailed them out yet? Strange eh? 6 Tln down, & we are supposed to think with all that money & power, they haven't FORCED them to? Like before?
No. It is way darker than death.
youtu.be/ugAv43Nx_AU?...
#BlackMonday? More like #BlackApril.
Isn’t she beautiful? Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War with THE SNOW TRILOGY: ANNIVERSARY EDITION - Available now on Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, etc #fallofsaigon #boatpeople #refugee #womensfiction #historicalfiction #militaryfiction #autofiction #snowtrilogy #blackapril
