Houston business owner faces death threats after buying Black Lives Matter billboard
t was a heartfelt act of support that inspired Houston businessman Lê Hoàng Nguyên, to put up a Black Lives Matter billboard on Bellaire Boulevard.
"Having faced racism first hand over the years and especially having seen the recent social injustices in America, I used my personal funds to put a billboard that shares the message of Black Lives Matter," Nguyên wrote on Facebook. "I did not receive any outside funds. The opinion expressed is 100% my own."
Hoàng Nguyên said when he was only 8 years old, he escaped from Vietnam. He moved to America when he was 9 years old--without his parents. He remembers the one group that truly showed support for him at that time.
“I escaped Vietnam when I was an 8-year-old boy, and I languished in refugee camp in Malaysia for about 9 months," Nguyên said in a Facebook post. "Unbeknownst to that little 8-year-old boy, there was a group of black civil rights leaders who spoke out up for me. And they took out a full page in the New York Times on March, 19, 1978."
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State Rep. Gene Wu, left, joins others Saturday in support of a Black Lives Matter billboard at 11107 Bellaire Blvd.
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