Being that the Northwest is a gateway to the East, we as Asian Americans should stand up and mellow yellow squat the Union Street Railroad Building and reconstruct it into a national arts and cultural museum center. So much of Asian American arts and culture has yet to appear and too soon to disappear: our writing, visual arts, poetry, dancing, fashion, music, films, photography and aesthetics, cultural, psychological, religious, spiritual input, etc. The best of the East and West are not being properly recorded. Let the world know and appreciate our contributions.

So, where is the home for Asian American arts? Let us dedicate it to our elders who carved a place for us. Especially the artist, for it is through the arts that we express our hearts. It is important for us to communicate for those of us who are too silent or shy - to gain understanding, simpatico and even tolerance - from strangers in a strange land.

Let the Chinese dynamite monkeys who had their tails blown off with promises to have their wages sent back to old country relatives be honored...for surely their dues were paid to the RR company store...and to give respect to those who drove that golden spike that connected East and West who did it their own (generational) way.

Let us expand and expose us to national and international scenes, before becoming more provincially arrested. Let the RR people and Paul Allen realize this will be the way to relate the railroad building to the Asian American people of the International District and the world. Let it be known that the Golden Eagle with the blue spot tail has often landed amongst Native America, Mexico, and South America long before Columbus arrived.

East met European West already in Impressionism, and just as Paris created a welcoming atmosphere for the arts, let Seattle do likewise. Let us host our unique place in history and culture an influx that may even help save Western civilization.

So let us collect and curate for the future: what was, is, and has yet to be. Then we can show where we have been and look at where we are going, as energies expressed across the Rainbow Rim to Rim Bridge and even back.

Let this responsibility and opportunity pass into your hands and contact those who may be concerned. There appears to be enough Asian Americans and friends who might sponsor this project if they were given an Asian American place to focus upon - a national Asian American cultural and arts museum here and now for tomorrow.