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- Eurasian Sensation: @ Colin: I’m pretty sure Jeremy Lin and his supporters are not the same person.
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- Raguel: As heated as the debate has become I think that it has been productive. The perspectives raised, unpopular or...
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- bigWOWO: That’s a really good point, Raguel. Like it or not, TV executives control everything (including what...
- Raguel: I could be wrong but the distribution windows for media and especially film seems very hierarchical. If you...
- bigWOWO: Illegal streaming? I had no idea anyone did that! Well, I really should check out some movies one of these...
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- Raguel: Time to get your concealed carry licences, folks!
- Eurasian Sensation: Jeff Yang has a good article about this ad: http://inamerica.blogs.cnn....
- Raguel: I haven’t even gotten to why the ad really is so offensive to us, ROFL
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- N: @danny You should youtube his college games. The two against Boston college and the one against UConn. Lol, he can...
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- Raguel: ^ Nice one Byron! I’m reading through the NYT picks, they’re good!
- bigWOWO: The Times had an Op-Ed by the President of the RIAA, and I commented. My comment was picked as a...
- Raguel: Found a great website, take a look at this: https://www.cdt.org/ Why should privacy be important, in an age...
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- bigWOWO: Here’s an interesting suggestion coming out of MIT: Connectome by Sebastian Seung...
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- Raguel: The origins of racism in the American military as described by loudestfuckingazns is accurate. Very recently,...
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- bigWOWO: Agreed. It just has more weight if you include your name. Not that the ideas are any less valid, but it just...
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- King: Actually WOWO, I bump into plenty of Asians up at the Art Center College of Design http://www.artcenter.edu/a...
- bigWOWO: Agree with King. This might not be a bad thing for Asian Americans to hear about. We can jump off the STEM...
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- trolldetector: Brooks also goes onto say ‘You should attach yourself to a counter-tradition and school of...
- bigWOWO: By the way, speaking of activism, there was a great David Brooks column recently. He talks about how people...
- Raguel: I have no experience whatsoever with activism. I simply do not feel safe participating in it. There is always...
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- bigWOWO: No worries. I feel the same way. Nothing against her, but just doubtful.
- Raguel: Hi Byron! I’ve been occupied doing a lot of reading and thinking recently. I suppose its just another...
- bigWOWO: Hey Raguel, What about your comments on ASSK?
I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
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- King: “I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima...
- SWR: Apparently the girl in the second video was not the girl who filmed the fight. It was probably unwise of her to...
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- bigWOWO: Jeff, You called it! They were (if I recall correctly) 7 (twins) and 2. He’s still in the honeymoon...
- jeffat8asians: “Overpaying?” With the possible exception of college tuition (and even that is arguable),...
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- ben: I’ve been getting into Asian rock music recently so thank you all very much for uploading all these videos.
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- bigWOWO: But kobu, how can we have literature and art without money to support artists and writers? About...
- kobukson: I don’t know why everyone seems to think the notion of the decline of the middle class is such a bad...
- bigWOWO: There are a lot of veterans (supposedly) on that site. I can kind of understand it–military guys are...
- Aung Sung Suu Kyi Movie with Michelle Yeoh (45)
- bigWOWO: Eurasian, Lee Kuan Yew has always been upfront about Singapore’s hybrid system. To the best of my...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ BigWowo: New governments following independence or a major power struggle often have the sort...
- N: @bww And ironically, one of the rare democratic successes in the region that is Singapore behaves much closer to a...
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
California Apologizes to Chinese Americans
(Thanks to D in HK for sending this!)
On July 17th, 2009, the California legislature approved a bill that apologized for racist laws against Chinese Americans during the mid nineteenth century. According to the article:
The laws, some of which were not repealed until the 1940s, barred Chinese from owning land or property, marrying whites, working in the public sector and testifying against whites in court. The new bill also recognizes the contributions Chinese immigrants have made to the state, particularly their work on the Transcontinental Railroad.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Politics
Tagged Activism, Asian American, Chinese, Chinese American, law, Politics, racism, transcontinental railroad
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(pic from here, thanks to Portland Panther Head for sending.)
Edit 7/22/09: New pic of actual arrest from CNN:
Gates in cuffs
Word got out a few hours ago that Henry Louis Gates was arrested last Thursday for disorderly conduct. Apparently someone suspected Gates of breaking and entering into what turned out to be his own home, and they called the cops. Gates was already inside the house when Officer James Crowley got there, and when Crowley asked him to step outside, Gates questioned the cop. There were a few verbal exchanges, the Crowley ended up arresting Gates for disorderly conduct.
Dodging the Question
I saw the video above on SEFTRE. It’s the same old arguments that Pat has been spewing forth since forever–White people are discriminated against, White people get jobs because they’re most qualified, White people built this whole country, and anti-White institutional racism is a pressing issue.
I liked how Rachel Maddow put him on the spot and saying he was “dating” himself. His views truly are a relic of the past. The funny thing is that he never answers any of her questions. She asks him if he thinks it’s a good thing that we may be getting a Latina on the court, and he dodges the question by bringing up a totally irrelevant point about some other guy who wanted to be on the court.
The Manly Sports
Ed Wang of Virginia Tech
(pic from here)
[As I mentioned in a previous post, life is busy with the activist summer. Thank you to bigWOWO reader Dizzle, who sent the following post. I agree with him on the stereotypes. I remember having a conversation with a Taiwanese woman who kept insisting that Apolo Ohno was a great athlete only because he was half white and had the "white genes." I kept asking, "Well, what about the #2 short track skater, who is full Korean and who managed to still win gold in some events?"
Thymos Book Project 2009
As promised, this post will be about the Thymos Book Project, which is Thymos’s 2009 activism “event.”
Last year, we had the Frank Chin Event, and the year before that, we had the Vincent Chin Event, which we co-sponsored with Asian Pacific Americans for Progress. This year is especially interesting to me because it’s the first time we’re asking people to do something rather than watch or listen to something. This year’s efforts truly bring the Asian American active to Asian American activism.
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The End of History and the Last Asian Man
A Canadian-Chinese Work of Orientalist White-Worshipping Glory
Orientalists–you people are everywhere. Here I am, getting set in writing my piece for the Thymos Book Project, and you Orientalist Mofo’s have to lob another one in my direction. I guess the upside is that you’re providing a good lead-in to my introduction of the Thymos Book Project–which will come as soon as I’m done with my first draft. I’m sorry, but I’m not going to let your issues interfere with my work.
Posted in media
Tagged deception, interracial relationships, media, Orientalism, racism, white privilege
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Where Teachers Make More than Baseball Players
Saw this on my Yahoo page. Top online course instructors in education-obsessed South Korea are making upwards of $4 million a year. According to the report, these educators are like rock stars who have money and status. Because of the scalability of internet classes, some of these instructors make more than professional baseball players. In the days before the web, there would be no way to get 50,000 paying subscribers for a single teacher. The web has enabled these teachers to reach more people than ever before.
Raising a Karate Kid
(pic from here)
I blogged a few months ago about martial arts and kids. Remember this? And this?
A few days ago, I decided that I was going to give it a shot by teaching my son how to throw a punch. I taught the Gun-Gun to curl his hand in a fist. It didn’t look right, so we worked on it until it sort of resembled a fist. Then I instructed him to punch a pillow. I showed him how.
Activist Summer Months are Starting
I wanted to give you all the heads up that the summer of activist partying is about to start for me. For those who followed my stuff on the 44s, you may be remember that a few months before this time last year, I was busy getting on my knees and begging for funds to support the Frank Chin Event, which turned out to be one of the greatest Asian American events in Portland’s history. My knees were sore from begging so much. The blog posts didn’t exactly stop, but they slowed down to a crawl.
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The Boston Phoenix, Media Racism, and Sam Yoon
Racist imagery, courtesy of the Boston Phoenix
Thanks to SEFTRE, who found this. The Boston Phoenix ran an article on Friday about how Yoon and Menino are competing over the Boston Asian vote, and they accompanied the article with the photo on the right, a graphic of Menino in a Chinese takeout box labeled “Yoon for Mayor.”
