Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

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Award-winning Journalist, commentator, and humorist, Emil Guillermo gives his take on race, society, and politics from an Asian American perspective. A former NPR host, Emil's commentaries can be read at http://www.aaldef/org/blog His work has appeared on radio, TV, and print nationwide. His book "Amok:Essays from an Asian American perspective," won an American Book Award. Twitter: @emilamok

Ep.66: Covid, Dorothy Velasco, Pete Hamill, Race, Environment, Affirmative Action, Harvard, and Ted

August 8, 2020

Emil Amok's Takes on the latest Covid news, Dorothy Velasco's passing, Pete Hamill, Race, Environment, affirmative action, opening of schools, Harvard...

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Ep. 65: John Lewis' "Good Trouble;" Trump's "Bad Trouble." And Another Ted Talk

July 31, 2020

Trump wasn't yelling, "We're No. 1." when the country surpassed 150,000 Covid-19 deaths. He didn't even bother to show up at John Lewis' funeral. Emil...

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Ep.64: How the Slants Helped To Change the Washington Football Team Name

July 17, 2020

Emil Guillermo talks to Simon Tam of the Slants about how his case to trademark what was thought to be a disparaging name didn't hurt but helped in th...

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Ep.63: Emil Amok's Takeout on Hamilton, July 4th, Mt. Rushmore; Plus...another TED talk!

July 5, 2020

You are not alone. Emil Amok Guillermo is a journalist, commentator, and humorist. Emil Amok's Takeout is where he works out his talk show days and gi...

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Ep.62: Emil Amok on Trump's "Make America Sick Again" Rally, Father's Day, White Privilege; Another Ted Talk, and more.

June 20, 2020

Journalist/commentator/humorist Emil Amok Guillermo gives his take on everything from Trump's "Make America Sick Again" rally, Father's Day, White Pri...

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Ep.61: #BLM, George Floyd, Trump's Reaction, and why FIlipinos should be in solidarity with BLM

June 6, 2020

Emil Guillermo has written his "Amok" column covering race, culture and ethnicity for the last 25 years in the Filipino and Asian American media. Pro...

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Ep.60: Emil Amok: My Kind of TED Talk

May 30, 2020

Emil Amok Guillermo talks with his old friend, University of Kentucky Philosopher Ted Schatzki about life, Covid, and George Floyd. They met at colleg...

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Ep.59: Peter Jamero and Emil Amok Guillermo talk about the American Filipino-Native Born Experience.

May 23, 2020

A special Filipino American National Historical Society Museum program as Emil Guillermo, museum director, talks to author Peter Jamero, one of the fi...

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Ep.58: Emil Amok Talks to a Philosopher about Covid, Pt.2

May 18, 2020

Is America too big to fail? Should the government do all it can to prop up the little guy as it has Big Business? Some of the questions in part 2 of "...

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Ep.57: Emil Amok's Takeout on Stephen Miller, Colonial Mentality, Asian Americans, APA Heritage Month, and Skin-Whitening

May 11, 2020

We're colonized by Covid but we're fighting back--by staying home! Professor E.J.Ramos David, author of "Brown Skin, White Minds," talks to Emil abou...

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