August 27, 2020

Observations From PIVOT President, Tung Nguyen

August 27, 2020/ Josie Nguyen

August 27, 2020

I finally took my Dad to church with proper precautions. It became clear that his faith was more important than dying from Covid.

While I was there, a woman helping at the Vietnamese church asked if I wanted to sign a petition to remove Governor Newsom. I said no and seethed that they allowed political work at a church—it is forbidden due to its non-profit status.

And then I thought, yeah, some of my Vietnamese people are a bunch of hypocrites and law breakers, always have been.

June 10, 2020

A message to older Vietnamese Americans from PIVOT's President

June 10, 2020/ Josie Nguyen

June 8, 2020
Tung Nguyen, PIVOT president

I've tried my whole adult life to stay out of the lightning rod in Vietnamese American communities of talking about the emotions and politics of the Viet Nam War. Partly because that has always been personally painful. Partly because I know it is much more painful for those who went through it and lost friends and family. But mostly because it is just a topic that begets a lot of arguments about the past that infects the present and usually does not lead to anything positive for the future.