{"id":234,"date":"2024-12-23T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aafc.us.org\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2025-02-24T01:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T01:02:36","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aafc.us.org\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Asian American Friendship Congress<\/span> (AAFC) is an organization dedicated to struggling against racism and negative perception of Asian peoples. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We recognize that the prejudice experienced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) is exacerbated by the corporate elites to create a wedge between working AAPI people and the rest of the American population. 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