Founded 43 years ago, the Japanese Bilingual Bicultural program was inspired by the values of the civil rights movement and the need to preserve and celebrate the Japanese/Japanese American community’s cultural and linguistic heritage.  JBBP is painfully aware from many of its families’ histories how a president's actions can adversely impact a community, but also how a community can nonetheless learn to endure and persevere.  Given the feelings arising from the recent national election, JBBP wants to reaffirm both its founding value –the essential dignity of all peoples and their cultural heritages – and its commitment to justice and equity for all students and families in San Francisco