BOB SHIMABUKURO
Let’s catch a breath, then keep moving
Bob Shimabukuro was the editor of the IE. He set a tone, a mood, like all of us editors strive to do. Do your...
Bob’s World: Mom, Jiichan and me
Mom: Why do you keep telling him all these things. He’s too little to understand.
Dad: When he grow up, he understand.
Mom and Jiisan
When Mom...
Bob’s World #2: Okinawan American long- term care: Nesan + professionals
Tom (Chonin)
The scene in Arlington in August after I arrived at Tom Nisan’s house: Toki Nesan had given me instructions about how to help...
Bob’s World: Very early childhood development
Before I was born:
Mid-1800s, Commodore Mathew Perry come to Edo Bay. Make demands. “We like use your bay fo’ trade and ship repair. Open...
Fo’ real: Equity in action – Black Panthers and Ike Ikeda
"Bob, Ike Ikeda is getting an award today. Can you get down there and get a photo or two to put with a short...
Fo’ Real: Internalized Racial Oppression then and now, Part 1
Seattle, 1994
Alice: I think APAC (Asian Pacific AIDS Council) should go to this workshop we’re putting together.
Bob: About what?
A: Race. For people of color (POC) and...
Fo’ Real: Sunrise at Haleakala
The following is republished from the October 5, 1994 issue of the International Examiner.
I was standing close to the summit of Haleakala crater on...
Fo’ Real: Women in my life
Reading the following 23-year-old article from September 7, 1994, I had written for the International Examiner (sent to me by Fumiko Hayashida’s daughter Natalie)...
Fo’ Real: Watching Maleakahana Waves
The latest of 'Fo' Real,' a column by Bob Shimabukuro
Turtle Island: Letting go of a false narrative
Diversity is just a sideshow to not doing anything. We need to ensure that the non-majority white population accepts that power must be shared and the 500-year fake narrative/history of white supremacy be abolished.
