Musée du Louvre - C'est de Rigueur
Être à nouveau à Paris !
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CINCINNATI ASIAN FOOD FEST 4/29-4/30/2023
Photo Courtesy of Charleston C.K. Wang, Esq. - May 2012
Historical note: TCG Denizkusu P321 was a fast patrol craft of Turkey which saw
service from 1967-2016.  With a complement of 39, she was capable of 40 knots and
was armed  with Breda 40 mm/70 Bofors and various torpedoes.
Istanbul Bosphorus Bridge peaceful at night in 2012
Photocredit: Charleston C. K. Wang, Esq.
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Photo to see
more
To view
"Faces
of
Turkey"
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here.
To view
"Hagia
Sophia"
click
here.
Trihealth Pavilion  2015
SWIM THE COAST T-Shirt
Awarded Distance Swim
THIRTY FIVE (35) MILES
March 2015
INTERETHNIC COUNCIL OF GREATER CINCINNATI, INC.
HAS A NEW HOMEPAGE AT
www.interethnic.net
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CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
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NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
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Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Working the Tan Lines
on the bank of the Dead Sea
the Lowest Body of Water on Earth
more than 1300 feet below Sea Level
April 2010.
Somewhere near lie biblical Sodom & Gomorrah.
Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
Charge of Light Brigade-Lord Alfred Tennyson
Last of Light Brigade-Rudyard Kipling
Recessional (Victorian Ode)-Rudyard Kipling
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Bill Bell and Charleston C. K. Wang
Four Elders from Uzbekistan in their many colored coats
Photocredit:  Boris Yusupov

Robert Harris & Charleston C. K. Wang
BE THE CHANGE:
CIVIL RIGHTS &
IMMIGRATION REFORM
IN 2013

Bill Bell and Charleston C. K. Wang
INFOCUS:
CHEMICAL
WEAPONS & THE
HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
IN SYRIA
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COMPLETE PHOTONEWS SPECIAL
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"Istanbul"
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"Hezekiah's
Tunnel
under the
City of David,"
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To view
"The Church
of St. Peter
in Gallicantu"
click here.
To read
"A Reflection
of Jerusalem
and the New
Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
click here.
To view
"Into  the
Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
\click here.
To view
"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
To view "The
Garden of
Gethsemane and
Church of All
Nations," click
here.
To view
"Caesarea
Maritima as
Known to
Saint Paul,"
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From Left to Right - Charleston C. K. Wang, Esq.,  Visiting
Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell (1998-1999) & Dean Gordon A.
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"Pilgrimage to
Bethlehem,
Birthplace
of Jesus,
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"Wrath
of
Paul,"
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"Herodion:
A Fortress
During the
Gospels,"
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Wilderness
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Jesus &
Israel-
Palestine,"
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THE WRATH OF PAUL
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Search of the
Messianic
Secret -
Caesarea
Phillipi,"
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"Sufis
Rumi
Konya,"
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"The Holy
Isle of
Patmos"
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EPHESUS OF ST. PAUL & ST. JOHN
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"The
Empty
Tombs,"
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THE HOLY ISLE OF PATMOS
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Empty
Tombs,"
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Very Different
Houses" click
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Patmos"
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Wilderness
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Israel-
Palestine,"
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"Sufis
Rumi
Konya,"
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THE WRATH OF PAUL
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"The Call for
Simon Peter,
Fisherman,"
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"Into  the
Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
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"A Reflection
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Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
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To read
"In Search
of Lazarus,"
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"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
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CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
To read
"Hezekiah's
Tunnel
under the
City of David,"
click here.
Mr. Nifadev applied for permanent resident status in March, 2017.
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
INFOCUS:
CHEMICAL
WEAPONS & THE
HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
IN SYRIA
Click on Photo
Photocredit:  Mary Joan Reutter, Esq.
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
BE THE CHANGE:
CIVIL RIGHTS &
IMMIGRATION REFORM
IN 2013

Robert Harris & Charleston C. K. Wang
To view
"Ephesus
of St. Paul
and
St. John"
click here.
A REAL UZBEK DYNASTY
Pursuant to the Sixth Circuit opinion, the BIA on January 5, 2015, ordered the Immigration Court to grant asylum to Mr. Nifadev.
To read the BIA order, please click here.

Bill Bell and Charleston C. K. Wang
A WIN IN THE U.S.  SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS. On August 18, 2014 in Nifadev v. Holder, (Case No. 13-3704/4222
6th Cir. 2014), the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that Mikheil B. Nifadev has proven his claim that he
had suffered persecution by reason of his Russian ethnicity at the hands of the security and regular police of Uzbekistan.   The
Court vacated the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in Washington, D.C. which had denied Mr. Nifadev asylum,
and the Court remanded the case with additional instructions to the United States Attorney General, including that the BIA should
determine whether the BIA should also reconsider its denial of Nifadev’s application for withholding of removal and protection
under Convention Against Torture (abbreviated CAT for Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment of the United Nations) in light of the opinion of the Court.  The Sixth Circuit opinion essentially and
explicitly held that "[b]ecause the IJ [Immigration Judge] appears to have erred in her determination that Nifadev did not suffer
past persecution and because the IJ clearly misinterpreted Nifadev’s credible testimony regarding the ethnic animus of the
Uzbekistan security officials, we find that Nifadev has made out a credible case of being a refugee under the definitions of
8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1)(A)."  [Emphasis added].   The United States Immigration Court in Cleveland, Ohio, had initially
found Mr.  Nifadev and his witnesses to be credible but declined to grant asylum because it erroneously determined that
Mr. Nifadev had NOT suffered persecution.   Shown in photograph on the right is Mr. Mikheil B. Nifadev with Charleston
C. K. Wang, Esq.  who represented Mr. Nifadev during trial and both appeals. To read complete opinion, please click here.

Bill Bell and Charleston C. K. Wang
Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
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"A Reflection
of Jerusalem
and the New
Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
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Group
photos of
Cincinnati
Pilgrims in
Jerusalem
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Mary Ellen O'Connell
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Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
\click here.
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"Visitng the
Dome of the
Rock"
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"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
To read"The
Wilderness
of Abraham,
Jesus &
Israel-
Palestine,"
click here.
To read "Jury
for Jericho,"  
click here.
To view
"The
Empty
Tombs,"
click here.
THE WRATH OF PAUL
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MEDITATING MEDITERRANEAN
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To view
"The Holy
Isle of
Patmos"
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"Sufis
Rumi
Konya,"
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"Sufis
Rumi
Konya,"
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"The Holy
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Patmos"
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THE WRATH OF PAUL
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To view
"The
Empty
Tombs,"
click here.
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"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
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for Jericho,"  
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Wilderness
of Abraham,
Jesus &
Israel-
Palestine,"
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Heat of
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Cauldon,"
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of Jerusalem
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Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
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INFOCUS:
UNIVERSAL
EDUCATION
IN THE
WORLD -
Example of
Malala
Yousafzai
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Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
To read "Yad
Vashem, A
Monument &
Name to
Remember"  click
here.
Trihealth Pavilion  2015
SWIM THE COAST T-Shirt
Awarded Distance Swim
THIRTY FIVE (35) MILES
March 2015

Bill Bell and Charleston C. K. Wang
To view
"Hagia
Sophia"
click
here.
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"Faces
of
Turkey"
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here.


















THE ASIAN AMERICAN HOUR has gotten bigger - we are now on the air weekly on public radio
WAIF-CINCINNATI 88.3 FM and our broadcast time has moved to prime-time  
THE ASIAN AMERICAN
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CONTINUES 21 YEARS ON THE AIR WITH WAIF 88.3 FM - Date of First Broadcast: 6/7/2001
THE ASIAN AMERICAN HOUR will continue to feature talk, and music, and other good things with a discernable slant
towards Asian American affairs, immigration, and many other issues of interest to our community-at-large.  
THE ASIAN AMERICAN HOUR is produced and hosted by Charleston Wang, Esq. with John G. O'Neill.
as co-host, together with our distinguished guests.

So, tune in to THE ASIAN AMERICAN HOUR on WAIF-CINCINNATI 88.3 FM. every Monday 5-6 PM. Get the latest on
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CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
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CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
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Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
Charge of Light Brigade-Lord Alfred Tennyson
Last of Light Brigade-Rudyard Kipling
Recessional (Victorian Ode)-Rudyard Kipling
CLICK ON PHOTO  TO
LISTEN TO  RECITATION
Four Elders from Uzbekistan in their many colored coats
Photocredit:  Boris Yusupov
To read
"A Reflection
of Jerusalem
and the New
Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
click here.
To view
"Into  the
Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
\click here.
To view
"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
To view "The
Garden of
Gethsemane and
Church of All
Nations," click
here.
To view
"Caesarea
Maritima as
Known to
Saint Paul,"
click here.
To read"The
Wilderness
of Abraham,
Jesus &
Israel-
Palestine,"
click here.
To view
"Sufis
Rumi
Konya,"
click
here.
To view
"The Holy
Isle of
Patmos"
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To read "Jury
for Jericho,"  
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"The
Empty
Tombs,"
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To view
"The
Empty
Tombs,"
click here.
To read "Jury
for Jericho,"  
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To view
"The Holy
Isle of
Patmos"
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To read"The
Wilderness
of Abraham,
Jesus &
Israel-
Palestine,"
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To view
"The Call for
Simon Peter,
Fisherman,"
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"Into  the
Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
\click here.
To read
"A Reflection
of Jerusalem
and the New
Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
click here.

To read
"In Search
of Lazarus,"
click here.
To view
"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
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CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
To read
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Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
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"Into  the
Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
\click here.
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"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
To read"The
Wilderness
of Abraham,
Jesus &
Israel-
Palestine,"
click here.
To read
"Descending
to the Dead Sea
and Ascending
to Qumran,"  
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"Medita-
ting Medi-
terra-nean,"
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for Jericho,"  
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"The
Empty
Tombs,"
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"The Holy
Isle of
Patmos"
click here.
To view
"The
Empty
Tombs,"
click here.
To view
"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
To read "Jury
for Jericho,"  
click here.
To read"The
Wilderness
of Abraham,
Jesus &
Israel-
Palestine,"
click here.
To view
"Into  the
Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
\click here.
To read
"A Reflection
of Jerusalem
and the New
Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
click here.
Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
To view
"Faces
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Turkey"
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here.
Monet's Garden & House
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Mont Saint Michel
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D-Day, Normandy France
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TURKISH TCG DENIZKUSU P321 PATROLLING BOSPHORUS-DARDANELLES PASSAGE
The passage of ships, civilian and military, between the Black Sea and the larger Mediterranean is addressed by the Montreux Convention of 1936 (superseding the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923).  
Under this international document, lawful control of maritime passage through the Bosphorus-Marmara-Dardanelles was given to Turkey.  A key peacekeeping (or "de-escalation") provision empowers
Turkey to close the Turkish Straits to most military traffic in times of war.  In  light of the war of aggression initiated by Russia against Ukraine beginning on 2/24/2022, Turkey on 2/27, recognized the
invasion as a war in violation of international law.  Citing Montreux, Turkey announced that it will exercise its power to forbid transit of all military vessels with the legal exception of ships with
pre-registration to a Black Sea port seeking passage to return to its home port including the naval base around Sevastopol in the Crimea.  Montreux also sets limits on number and tonnage of warships
of non-Black Sea countries  (Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine) and on the duration of the presence of such "foreign" ships.  On 3/2/2022, Russia withdrew its request for passage of
4 navy ships - 2 destroyers, 1 frigate, and 1 intelligence vessel - through Turkish waters into the Black Sea. Charleston C. K. Wang, Esq. - 03/26/2022.
To view
"Faces
of
Turkey"
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CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
Charge of Light Brigade-Lord Alfred Tennyson
Last of Light Brigade-Rudyard Kipling
Recessional (Victorian Ode)-Rudyard Kipling
CLICK ON PHOTO  TO
LISTEN TO  RECITATION
Four Elders from Uzbekistan in their many colored coats
Photocredit:  Boris Yusupov
To read
"A Reflection
of Jerusalem
and the New
Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
click here.
To view
"Into  the
Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
\click here.
To view
"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
To view "The
Garden of
Gethsemane and
Church of All
Nations," click
here.
To view
"Caesarea
Maritima as
Known to
Saint Paul,"
click here.
To read"The
Wilderness
of Abraham,
Jesus &
Israel-
Palestine,"
click here.
To view
"The Holy
Isle of
Patmos"
click here.
To read "Jury
for Jericho,"  
click here.
To view
"The
Empty
Tombs,"
click here.
To view
"The
Empty
Tombs,"
click here.
To read "Jury
for Jericho,"  
click here.
To view
"The Holy
Isle of
Patmos"
click here.
To read"The
Wilderness
of Abraham,
Jesus &
Israel-
Palestine,"
click here.
To view
"The Call for
Simon Peter,
Fisherman,"
click here.
To view
"Into  the
Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
\click here.
To read
"A Reflection
of Jerusalem
and the New
Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
click here.

To read
"In Search
of Lazarus,"
click here.
To view
"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
To read
"A Reflection
of Jerusalem
and the New
Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
click here.
To view
"Into  the
Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
\click here.
To view
"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
To read"The
Wilderness
of Abraham,
Jesus &
Israel-
Palestine,"
click here.
To read "Jury
for Jericho,"  
click here.
To view
"The
Empty
Tombs,"
click here.
To view
"The Holy
Isle of
Patmos"
click here.
To view
"The Holy
Isle of
Patmos"
click here.
To view
"The
Empty
Tombs,"
click here.
To view
"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
To read "Jury
for Jericho,"  
click here.
To read"The
Wilderness
of Abraham,
Jesus &
Israel-
Palestine,"
click here.
To view
"Into  the
Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
\click here.
To read
"A Reflection
of Jerusalem
and the New
Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
click here.
Working the Tan Lines by the
Aegean of the Mediterranen
Beyond in the mist rises
fabled Patmos, May 2012
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
To view
"Faces
of
Turkey"
click
here.
To view
"Faces
of
Turkey"
click
here.
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
CHARLESTON C. K. WANG
NAZLY MAMEDOVA
WANGLAW
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Charleston C K Wang Speedo
Charge of Light Brigade-Lord Alfred Tennyson
Last of Light Brigade-Rudyard Kipling
Recessional (Victorian Ode)-Rudyard Kipling
CLICK ON PHOTO  TO
LISTEN TO  RECITATION
To read
"A Reflection
of Jerusalem
and the New
Jerusalem
from the Ground,"  
click here.
To view
"Into  the
Heat of
the Hebron
Cauldon,"
\click here.
To view
"In The
Upper
Room"
click \here.
To view "The
Garden of
Gethsemane and
Church of All
Nations," click
here.
To view
"Caesarea
Maritima as
Known to
Saint Paul,"
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Historical note: TCG Denizkusu P321 was a fast patrol craft of Turkey which saw
service from 1967-2016.  With a complement of 39, she was capable of 40 knots and
was armed  with Breda 40 mm/70 Bofors and various torpedoes.
Maneki-Neko = Japanese Cat  Who Invites Good Fortune
Translation Courtesy of Dr. Shiro Tanaka
This Cat is Seen in many Asian American restaurants for Good Luck Waving one Arm of Welcome
My Malaysian Boy Scout - Senior Scout Badges
Tenderfoot, Second Class, First Class, Proficiency Badges, Bushman's Thong
1st Kuala Lumpur Scout Group, Victoria Institution 1968-1972
James Cook  Patrol. 1st Kuala Lumpur Senior Scout Troop
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NAT, Recent Asylum Seeker (left)  Oumar Ball Human Rights Leader of Black Mauritanian
American Community in Cincinnati (Center) & Charleston Wang, WANGLAW (Right) 6/5/2023
The "White Moor" Government of Mauritania after killing a young man named Oumar Diop detained at a police station
has shut down the internet to silence protest against  racial oppression and "Black Slavery" in Mauritania.
Dr. Saad Ghosn & Charleston Wang
AAPI Cultural Heritage Celebratory Art Exhibit & Art Event
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AFRICAN (NIGERIAN) AMERICAN DRUM DANCERS
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Cod a la Provencal                           Steak au Poivre         Creme Brulee with Grand Marnier
Bastille Day Celebrated in Montgomery, Ohio 7/15/2023
Oumar Ball & Charleston Wang, Esq, Interviewed by AP Respecting Enslavement of Black
Fulani Mauritanians in  Mauritania, and Asylum in USA - West Chester, Ohio 7/21/2023
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                 REVIEW & ANALYSIS: THE INFERNAL QUESTION OF RACE FOR ASIAN AMERICANS











Have Asian American College Applicants become “Honorary White”

Every time I encounter race discussed in public media these days, I hear the color-stereotyping or dividing of people into “black and brown” versus “white.”  Not “black, brown,
and yellow” versus “white, or also not “black and brown” versus “white and yellow.   What happened to “yellow?”  This very revealing construct, “yellow” has become invisible or even
non-existent insofar the color assignment of people.  I will be the first to charitably note, thankfully,  that not all Asian Americans are yellow in color (submitting to the stretch that every
Asian Americans look like lemons and American from Europe all look like sheets of 92 brightness white laser paper) – some from South-East Asia can pass as brown people and more from
South Asian are even darker in skin complexion. Amazingly confounding, yes?

But coming back to college admissions and the Harvard/North Carolina decisions, it does appear that, as a practical matter Asian Americans spearheaded by those who opposed
affirmative action, have finally and constitutionally made it into the “white” rathskeller.  But Asian Americans are not the first to do this.   The initial skirmish was fought and won a century
ago by Jewish students seeking admission into the top universities most of which were part of the East Coast Establishment known to this day as the Ivy League.   By and by, it became clear
that Jewish applicants to universities were viewed equally as other “white” applicants.   Even as late as 1971,  a twenty-two-year-old Sephardic Jew and native of Seattle, Washington named
Marco Defunis, sued University of Washington Law School in federal court claiming he was denied admission because of “preferential admissions policies” for minorities.  In other words,
that he, a Sephardic Jew, was treated as “white” and suffered harm because other “minorities” were admitted around and ahead of him.  By the time Defunis v, Odegaard  reached the
Supreme Court in 1974, Mr. Defunis had already graduated after University of Washington had provisionally admitted him.    My comment here, nearly 50 years later, is that perhaps Mr.
Defunis (and the minority peoples would have been better served if he, qua Sephardic Jew should have argued that he should have been treated as a minority, whether by particularity
respectingcolor or religion.  But he had insisted that he was “white,” and we cannot alter that fact.

A few years later, Allan P. Bakke a white man sued to vindicate his exclusion from the Medical School of the University of California.  As we already know, the Supreme Court in the
Bakke decision of  1978,  struck down the use of numerical quota (that school had reserved 16 places for minority applicants) and happily, Mr. Bakke was admitted into the
Medical School at UC Davis, graduated and still practices anesthesiology.  Simultaneously, the Court also instituted affirmative action as the law of the land.

To keep focus on the burning issue, I will skip the intervening cases between Bakke which legitimized affirmative action and fast forward to Harvard/North Carolina which made it
unconstitutional.   It appears to me, as I already suggested, Asian Americans (yellow, brown and black so long that they hail from that vast continent of Asia) have made it at least in the
sphere of going to university.  The fall-out, if the Supreme Court is to be taken at its words, is the utopia wherein everyone will be “white” or “colorless” if you will, before the lofty college
admissions committees.  I suggest labelling all applications as “vanilla.”  Insofar as ice cream flavors are concerned -  gone are blackberry,, chocolate, pineapple, banana, etc.   Taking
the Court at its word, can historical concepts of race be erased with 237 pages of opinion?

The reality is that while Asians Americans may appear to have become "honorary white"  constitutionally or even de facto for the purpose of admission into the ivory towers, on the
streets and in the backwoods of America. in the eys of those who subsribe to white supremacy, Asian Americans shall forever remain  to be colored "yellow."   As the old saying goes,
color is in the eye of the beholder, a phenomenon that the Supreme Court cannot possibly hope to undo even with many strokes of the pen.

Two Historical Court Decisions Involving Chinese Americans.

As savvy readers can deduce from simply my family name, I am of Chinese origin.  So I best tell two tales of the law that are close to Chinese in America.  These are  (1) State of California v.
Hall (1854 Supreme Court of California), and (2) Gong Lum v. Rice (1927 U. S. Supreme Court).

 Hall  was a pre-civil war case involving the murder in the wild west state of California of a Chinese miner named Ling Sing.  The accused was a white man named George Hall who
was convicted of this killing upon the testimony of two Chinese witnesses.  Mr. Hall duly appealed the guilty verdict, and he argued that Section 394 of the Act Concerning Civil Cases,
which barred the use of testimony by blacks, mulattoes, and Indians against whites, should also be enlarged to banning the testimony of Chinese in his murder trial.  The California supreme
court, in an opinion written by Chief Justice Hugh Murray with concurrence from Justice Soloman Heydenfeldt, sided with Mr. Hall notwithstanding the fact that his case involved criminal
homicide and that “Chinese” was not mentioned in Section 394.  By the way, the word “mulatto” etymologically is derived from the Latin “mulus”  meaning “mule” and was understood at
that time as a mixed race person of white and black ancestry.  It must be remembered that Justice Alexander Wells wrote a one sentence dissent.  I shall not repeat the derogatory dicta
written in that decision.  The interested reader may readily find them via the internet.  My point is that Chinese people in 1854 in California were treated not as white people but grouped
instead with the colored people.

The second is more recent.   The Lum family migrated from  China and lived in Rosedale, Bolivar County, Mississippi.  They had two American born children who had been attending the local
public school for white children until 1924.  The Immigration Act of 1924 (who explicitly sought to preserve the prevailing racial composition, i. e. white majority in the Nation) raised public
hostility against Asian (colored) people.  The two Lum children were  then barred from attending the white school but there was no colored school in Rosedale and they were
sent to another district which had a school for colored (i.e. black) children.   It must be noted that the Katherine Lum objected to the decision to transfer her children, Berda and Martha,
because “she did not want them to be treated as Negroes.”  

A former governor who had just lost a Senate race, Earl L. Brewer took up their cause against the school officials naming Greek Rice as the lead defendant.   Mr. Brewer won a
writ of mandamus in the trial court holding that the Lum children has been incorrectly classified as “colored.”    The Mississippi supreme court reversed by relying on § 207 of the state
constitution of 1890, which provided: "Separate schools shall be maintained for children of the white and colored races."  Today such a provision is remembered as a Jim Crow law.  
Accordingly, the Mississippi high court found that its constitution divided the educable children into those of the pure white or Caucasian race, on the one hand, and the brown, yellow,
and black races, on the other, and therefore that Martha Lum, of the “Mongolian” (Mongolian, Chinese what difference!?) or yellow race, could not insist on being classed with the whites
under this constitutional division.  The case then went to the U. S. Supreme Court which in 1927 agreed with Mississippi in that the Lums were of not of the white race and being yellow
must attend a colored school.  Under current sensibility, this is Jim Crow at its most pernicious and traceable to Plessy v. Ferguson, that infamous Supreme Court decision in 1896 that
instituted Jim Crow in America.

    As a matter of historical fact, Jim Crow racial segregation in public school education continued until 1954 only to be declared unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka Kansas.  It is interesting that Brown mentions Gong Lum and “child of Chinese descent” once in footnote 8.  I must point out there is no other mention of “Chinese” in Brown.  So I will
ask, “where were the Chinese children and the Chinese parents in 1954 when the people then referred to “Negroes” were fighting for equal rights in education all the way to the U.S.
Supreme Court.

    Notwithstanding the absence or invisibility of little Lums of the 1950s, in the landmark lawsuit to desegregate public education, the resulting dismantling of Jim Crow particularly in
public schools certainly benefited the Chinese who were legally thought of as beig of the yellow race and other Asians who might be viewed by white people as colored “brown” or even
“black.”  Interestingly, of the nine, the only Judge who cited Gong Lum during the recent dismantling of affirmative action in the Harvard/University of North Carolina cases was
JusticeClarence Thomas.

The Burning Question and Infernal Confusion Continues

The Harvard/University of North Carolina cases have divided and are dividing the Asian American communities.  A goodly number of Asian Americans feel that they have been
misused by as a wedge weapon in the attack on affirmative action.  Others rejoice in the hope to see their children admitted into the best American universities in the coming years.  In my
opinion, the reality on the ground, in the streets, campuses, and workplaces, in every corner of America, the issue of racism and equal opportunity, if not affirmative action, as antidote,
will continue to burn white hot in the months, years and decades to come.   In this on-going culture war, where and with whom will Asian Americans stand?  Where do we stand on critical
race theory, on the historicity and perniciousness of racial prejudice, white supremacy, and a mutating racism in America.  Yes, we may think or even believe that we, like our Jewish
friends, that Asian Americans are honorary whites insofar college admission is concerned, but where do we stand on a broad basis in American society and more importantly our politics
involving the burning question of race?

When Bakke was decided in 1978, I had just been admitted to Chase Law School and was in my exhilarating first year.  At that time, I received many questions of various shades from
my classmates about the meaning and impact of Bakke.  Asians were at that time under-represented in American law schools and then in the practice of law. Even today, according to the
American Bar Association, 2% of all American lawyers are Asian – up slightly from 1.6%  ten years earlier – while the U.S. population is 5.9% Asian. Why so few Asian American lawyers to this
day?   Bakke is a creature of the pinnacle of American legal process and so are the twin decisions terminating Bakke last month.  When I told my late father Shan-Cheng Wang who had
been a Professor of Chemical Engineering that I was applying to law school, he sternly admonished me  “don’t you dare to law school because Asians cannot succeed as lawyers in
America!” I ignored his advice and went to law school anyway and became a fulfilled practicing lawyer.   My father’s thinking was not an exception – to this day,  many Asian American
parents and their children continue to view STEM as the coveted secret to success and to well-being and happiness.

But I am concerned by the continuing disdain or absence of Asian Americans in the American legal profession.  The courtroom, especially in matters of constitutional import, and as we
are seeing unfold before our eyes today, the courtrooms are where burning political issues are fought out by lawyers and decided by lawyers who have become judges.  And apparently
under a veneer of civility with the purported application of logic and magnanimous reasoning.  Like war in uncivil relationships, the courtroom is the venue of political confrontation in
civil society. The alernate recourse is incivility as epitomized by the devastating failures of the U. S. Supreme Court in such cases as. Dred Scot v. Sandford, (the 1857 case where the
Supreme Court held that the U.S. Constitution did not extend U. S. citizenship to people of black African descent, and thus they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the
Constitution conferred upon U. S. citizens) and more recently and closer to the Asian American interest, in Korematsu v. United States (the 1944 case where the Supreme Court upheld
the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the west coast of the United States and their subsequent detention in internment camps).  So why so few Asian American lawyers in America?
This chronic lack of Asian Americans in the American legal profession causes me great concern as it should you.

Charleston C. K. Wang, Updated July 24, 2023.

On June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court decided the twin cases of NFFA v. Harvard and NFFA v. University of North Carolina.  
These two precedent- reversing decisions declared affirmative action (i.e. race sensitive) college admissions to be unconstitutional under
the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.  The Court sidestepped the time honored judicial practice of stare decisis (i.e. “let
prior decisions stand”) by striking down the 1978 decision of Regents of University of California v. Bakke, the landmark case which instituted
affirmative action in university admission while outlawing the rote use of set racial quota.

Of course, disappointed Asian American applicants to the big name universities, both public and private, played a key role in terminating
college affirmative action.  An examination of the book-sized 237 page opinion will reveal that the phrase “affirmative action” is mentioned
59 times and “Asian American” is cited 58 times!  After the failure in 2013 and 2016 of the Abigail Fisher protracted attack on race sensitive
admissions, the anti-affirmative action lobby had to turn elsewhere.   Ms. Fisher had claimed she was rejected by the University of Texas
because she was white, so the lobby successfully enlisted Asian American students to undo affirmative action once and for all.  The
gravamen of the renewed attack was that Asian Americans with superior academic credentials (many who had made the top decile or 10% in
numerical scores) had been rejected because of affirmative action exemplified in  the “lop” or “school group” review (call it what you will)
which specifically gave favorable consideration to “race” – and, bingo, such treatment must have violated Equal Protection.  And the United
States Supreme Court agreed.diidii
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