John Chiang is making headlines these days (and giving Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger a major headache) because of a fight over whether to pay state workers minimum federal wage while a budget impasse continues. (The Governor has ordered it; Chiang is refusing to comply.)
Chiang is a child of Taiwanese immigrants and was born in New York and raised in the Midwest.
According to an article in the Sacramento Bee, Chiang's family lived in a white, working class suburb of Chicago - Palo Heights - and they were targets of racial hatred.
Bee writter Marcos Breton writes, "There were the racial epithets spray-painted on their house, rocks hurled through windows and the numberous times Chiang had to defend himself and younger siblings."
In the interview, Chaing says his parents are now his heroes but that wasn't always the case when he was growing up.
He echoes some of the stories I'm hearing from other children of immigrants who have learned so much wisdom from the past as they've made a better future for themselves and others.
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