OC Register | Latino and Vietnamese groups come together for community empowerment

By Hanna Kang

Tracy La, executive director of VietRISE, said she hopes outreach efforts and materials like the videos will help dismantle the dominant narrative surrounding the community, which often focuses on hyper-conservatism and red-baiting, a political tactic that involves accusing individuals or groups of having communist sympathies and insinuating that they are “un-American.”

“A lot of us feel like we keep seeing the same recycled campaigns over and over again,” she said. “Our community is getting really tired of the same headlines every four years with the red-baiting and focusing on anti-communism without really talking about issues that working-class Vietnamese are experiencing.”