Скачать или смотреть In Defense of Richard Aoki: Prof. Diane Fujino Speaks To College of Ethnic Studies@SFSU (Clip 3)

Clip 3: Prof. Diane Fujino, Chair of the Asian American Studies Department at U.C. Santa Barbara, historian & biographer of Richard Aoki and author of SAMURAI AMONG PANTHERS, counters and refutes allegations made by former San Francisco Chronicle reporter, Seth Rosenfeld, that Richard Aoki was a willing & paid FBI informant during his involvement as a student strike leader for the Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley and as a member of the Black Panther Party during their struggles with the O.P.D. in the late and turbulent 1960's.

Speaking to an audience of SF State University students & faculty, grass-roots community people as well as alumni from the San Francisco State College/TWLF student strike of 1968, Prof. Fujino cautions us about Rosenfeld's motives, dissects and questions many of his accusations, admonishes us to write our own histories and not rely on so-called authority figures and to search for and reach the truth through scholarly research and not by "quick-fix" sensationalizing.

In a whirl-wind tour of the San Francisco Bay Area last weekend, she spoke at numerous venues including the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, the Eastside Arts Alliance on International Blvd. in Oakland (which hosted a forum that included Bobby Seale and other veteran Black Panthers). On Monday, September 10th, Prof. Fujino spoke to a receptive, enthusiastic audience @ San Francisco State University at the request of the College of Ethnic Studies. On Tuesday, September 11th, she made an appearance at the Temescal Branch of the Oakland Public Library in North Oakland near the site where the first headquarters of the Black Panther Party was established in 1966.