concept stokely carmichael spoke about was not a black or african-american concept. it was a human concept. it was applicable across the board. i started to apply it. i started to redefine myself for myself and by myself and in the context i stumbled around ignorantly the longest time. in my ramblings, i started to run to other people. shida.eople like mona i thought a school in this college readiness program. pre-third world strike at berkeley. we had a big rally because our program funding was cut. we brought in nontraditional students to college of san mateo . they cut our funding. we started to have demonstrations. .y turn to speak came up a lot chinese kids whose san francisco chinatown. african-americans from the fillmore and also east palo alto . latinos from the mission district and redwood city. american indians from a local reservation down the peninsula. white working-class kids. my turn kept coming up to speak. bob hoover demanded that we always had a black and latino, white american indian and asian woman. we all spoke. what started happening as i starte

the first time he heard the term asian-american was when stokely carmichael said it. it made me wonder, for each of you, when did you first hear the phrase asian-american, and what was your response at that time? >> the first organization i organized was called the oriental coalition. in 1968. then, i met a young woman from san francisco state who is with the asian-american political alliance. i said, damn, that sounds so much better. [laughter] >> but that was the empowering process. we could use any term we wanted. and in terms of starting a movement relative to the first question, there is no history of it. so, the point about us being able to remember or know somebody when there is no history, that's why asian-american studies are so important because it is just happening. so, being a part of it and the continuing redefinition -- >> it is interesting for me because my family -- [inaudible] >> but that is the whole issue of empowering yourself. you define that. >> but he was elected to congress. >> you have to write the history. you have to make sure he gets out th