Comments on: Podcast: Sam Yoon, Candidate for Mayor of Boston

By: John Liu elected Comptroller of New York City/Elections | big WOWO

John Liu elected Comptroller of New York City/Elections | big WOWO — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:31:29 +0000

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Sam Yoon: bigWOWO’s Fundraising Page | big WOWO — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:49:44 +0000

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California Apologizes to Chinese Americans | big WOWO — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:25:58 +0000

[...] supporting Sam Yoon, who is running for mayor in a city far, far away from me. If you hear his podcast, he’s the real thing. We need to support strong and courageous Asian American politicians, [...]

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The Boston Phoenix, Media Racism, and Sam Yoon | big WOWO — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:00:40 +0000

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By: Sam Yoon, Boston Mayoral Candidate « Asian American Movement Blog

Sam Yoon, Boston Mayoral Candidate « Asian American Movement Blog — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:10:49 +0000

[...] is a link to the post which includes a podcast interview with Mr. Yoon. BigWowo lists several political points [...]

By: jaehwan

jaehwan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:09:22 +0000

Thanks, Anna, Sowa, and Amazin!

I started to talk to people here in Portland about how we might be able to help support Sam through donations. It’s a very tough sell because it’s Boston, not Portland, and Portlanders usually focus on Portland affairs. Still, it clearly helps us all if for nothing other than breaking down barriers. I remember Daniel Inouye went outside his local area when he came to Portland from Hawaii to help a Japanese American candidate. I think we all need to cross borders to promote, even if it’s not in our local area.

I’ll keep you all updated on that effort. If anyone has any ideas on how we can promote the support of Sam Yoon to people outside of Boston, PLEASE SHARE.

By: anna123

anna123 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:22:43 +0000

Awesome podcast Jaehwan. Great to hear such insightful, intelligent discussion, and Mr Yoon is definitely an inspirational candidate with foresight and vision. Society in general needs more political leaders like such as Mr Yoon!!

By: sowa86

sowa86 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:28:05 +0000

I think you are absolutely right Jaehwan. I worked with a group of middle-schoolers at a program called 8th Grade Academy that was sponsored by Citizen Schools. The goal of the program was to do exactly what you’re talking about - give middle school kids a vision of what they can achieve with a college education. The program brings in professionals from a wide-variety of fields and has them lead 10-week apprenticeships that teach the students a practical application for the skills they’re learning in school. Apprenticeships range from building solar cars to helping design transit stations, to learning more about the culinary arts.

The group I was a part of was about getting youth involved in the political process. I was blown away at how much the kids excelled once they had an end-goal in front of them. They just needed someone to EXPECT them to succeed. We ended up putting together a documentary about neighborhood gang violence and then Sam actually came on our last day to watch the documentary and listen to how the kids thought local politicians could do more to solve this problem.

After seeing Sam’s interaction with the kids, I was sold. I could tell he really had a vested interest in the things he talks about on the campaign trail.

By: amazin azn

amazin azn — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:23:10 +0000

Wow - this guy’s the man. Smart, young, and yellow.

Would be nice to have some more representation around the country, and an elected one, at that. A lot of the higher ranking officials are in appointed positions (Michelle Rhee, Steven Chu).

By: jaehwan

jaehwan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:23:05 +0000

I think Sam can win if gets the students out to vote. See here:

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/76665-Can-Sam-Yoon-win/?page=1#TOPCONTENT

Sorry about leaving off all those other schools! I only applied to one school (which was not in Boston), so I totally forgot all the other ones. BC and Northeastern are definitely great schools, and I think I mentioned Wellesley because of Clinton. I should have shot for a Boston school; I’d probably be more cosmopolitan today if I had. Then again, my college years probably taught me what I needed to know before moving out to the Portland suburbs…

P2H,

One thing that struck me about Sam’s idea to link secondary education with the colleges is that a lot of high schoolers may not aspire to be academics or Nobel prize winners. Smart is probably less cool in the U.S. than in other countries at the high school level. I was thinking that if high school kids saw what smart people could achieve, maybe they would be inspired to work harder.

What do you think?