Скачать или смотреть In Defense of Richard Aoki: Prof. Diane Fujino Speaks to the College of Ethnic Studies SFSU (Clip 2)

Clip 2: Prof. Diane Fujino, Chair of the Asian American Studies Department @ UC Santa Barbara, historian and biographer of Richard Aoki and author of SAMURAI AMONG PANTHERS counters and refutes allegations by former SF Chronicle reporter, Seth Rosenfeld, that Richard Aoki was a willing & paid FBI informant during his involvement as a student strike leader of 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 some alumni from the San Francisco State College/TWLF strike of 1968, Prof. Fujino cautions us about Rosenfeld's motives, dissects & questions many of his accusations, and 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 book 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 Cultural Center on International Blvd. in Oakland (which included a forum with Bobby Seale and other veteran Black Panthers). On Monday, September 10th, Prof. Fujino spoke to a receptive and enthusiastic audience @ San Francisco State University at the request of the College of Ethnic Studies. On Tuesday, September 11th, she made an appearance @ 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.