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- Scapegoating our own (12)
- Frank Chow: @King He definitely said he opposed “same-sex marriage”, that didn’t change....
- King: @ Frank But Manny didn’t even say what he’s been accused of.
- Frank Chow: I think any athlete should be an athlete and accept the responsibility of their words in a public forum....
- Facebook co-founder renounces U.S. citizenship prior to IPO (13)
- Raguel: This is a storm in a tea cup, a new five minutes of hate. This is because despite the outrage, people will...
- Frank Chow: “The country is not over-taxed; in fact, tax rates are near 60 year lows.” -source,...
- bigWOWO: Linda, Mark Cuban is rich (richer than me anyway), and he’s just as horrified as I am. I don’t...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (428)
- LadyBlack: Hello, you who believe that some races are inferior and that some are superior. As a Black (in particular...
- bigWOWO: Thanks, Grover!
- Grover Porquel: Excellent roundup. I have taken on these “biodiversity” types myself over the years and...
- Higher education: the next subprime bubble (5)
- bigWOWO: Let’s think hypothetically. Let’s say they had quotas, such as a company of X number of...
- kobukson: In the past, a high school diploma was sufficient for getting a job. Things changed and a HS diploma...
- bigWOWO: I do agree with you, Ei, to a certain point. I have heard that some lawyers and engineers are having...
- Americans Eat the World’s Cheapest Food (36)
- bigWOWO: A week in, and: I liked the mock chicken, but the family didn’t like it. I don’t know if...
- King: ^ But isn’t Anthony Bourdain the same guy who recently called Paula Deen the “Worst Unhealthy Cook” for...
- kobukson: I like Anthony Bourdain’s take on vegetarians and vegans: “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like...
- Why Do Asian People Have Bad Eyesight? (37)
- Suing the Bachelor for racial discrimination (34)
- George: The problem with the entertainment industry is that they have already stated that blacks are not on the show...
- George: “Oh and prediction, you know the first female non white bachelorette will be Asian, and it will be...
- Chen: i’ve been reading about BFOQ cases, and it seems as if the entertainment industry wins unless they do...
- Reasons to eliminate black studies (23)
- Asian Men, Black Men, and the Competition for White Women (569)
- Raguel: Actually, white people may laugh at him even more, and that may be why they like him so much.
- Raguel: How does this nihilistic dog so filled with ressentiment and love of the slave morality even dare to mention...
- ChineseMom: (continued) Criticism of contemporary Chinese literature and Marxism Q: After the publication of your...
- Immigration records of Asian immigrants to be made available to public (2)
- American woman becomes hero to abused women in China (39)
- Chen: thats it. This woman got beat up, and that is wrong. I’m sure some assholes are going to use that and run...
- Eurasian Sensation: Patriarchal practices are incredibly ingrained in some countries and are extremely hard to shift....
- Raguel: Wasn’t it reported in one of the major american magazines like life, time etc that travelling ulamas...
- San Diego student left alone in cell for five days (3)
- bigWOWO: Haha…I know, Zach! This is the absolute worse kind of invisibility that there is!
- Zach Katagiri: Man — talk about asian american males being invisible!!
- Linda: this will be the next episode of “I survived….” I am surprised they don’t have video...
- Adventures of the Karaoke King by Harold Taw (Review and Question) (4)
- bigWOWO: Alpha, Glad that you see the precious metals rather than the ranking! Although I guess I should consider...
- Raguel: Why not make contact with other blogs and Asian American websites to feature your reviews? This way,...
- Alpha Asian: B, I know what you mean. A lot of reviewers just give very bland reviews and they don’t really...
- Asian women fetch high prices for egg donation (5)
- Dman: I don’t get the article Asian women in demand for donating her eggs. I did not see anything mentioned...
- bigWOWO: I think that buying an egg is financially easier these days than adoption from China. I know people trying...
- Linda: Also regarding about adoption. I think a lot of Americanized Asians are open to adoption in the US. (unlike...
- Re-Programming Your Mind (74)
- Chr..: I’m not making this up! I saw this guy in front of a Trader Joe’s here in NYC not too long ago as...
- Asian Women and the Invisible Chain (187)
- Chr..: @ King Yes, and what can the general masses do to stop with what’s going on right now? Not much I would...
- King: @ Chr Because the money, more than anything else, is ‘the system’ that affects everything else.
- Chr..: “The whole thing looks like a very twisted version of musical chairs, doesn’t it?” Why does this...
- Creative Monopolists (3)
- Asian husband-wife team on Shark Tank (3)
- Artists Who Refuse to Work for Free (5)
- Courtney: I have been drawing for 22 years. I think it’s really inconsiderate to ask an artist to sit down for...
- More Asian Americans Marrying Within Their Race (106)
- Chr..: “Look at some of the fatcats on Wall Street–a guy who can drop $800 on a single night out isn’t...
- The Richer Sex by Liza Mundy (Review) (12)
- Chr..: “dystopian mating marketplace where, like income inequality, the rewards of female sexuality will go...
- Whiteness and American TV (9)
- Linda: @hadoken – I don’t know why korean dramas are like crack. I go thru phases. since it’s a...
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Category Archives: Activism
An Easy Activist Action to Protest Apple’s Exclusion of Asian Men
Woo hoo! Lots of people read the post about Apple and the AF/WM theme in their advertising. I said that I would write them a letter about including more Asian men, and I finally did. See below–I sent it to Steve Jobs and Philip Schiller this morning. I have no idea whether they’ll do anything about it, but I figure it’s worth a shot. There was some ignorance on my part of how the media/acting industry operates, so special thanks to Minority Militant and Philip from You Offend Me You Offend My Family for helping a brother out.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, media
Tagged Apple, interracial relationships, race, Steve Jobs
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Clarence Thomas’s Conservative Activist Wife
Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia
Interesting article in the NY Times about Clarence Thomas’s wife and her activism for the far right Tea Party/Conservative movement. Here you have a guy sitting on the highest bench, a guy who is supposed to be judging based on the Constitution, and his wife is raising money for a highly partisan cause:
Mrs. Thomas is the founder and head of a new nonprofit group, Liberty Central, dedicated to opposing what she characterizes as the leftist “tyranny” of President Obama and Democrats in Congress and to “protecting the core founding principles” of the nation.
Posted in Activism, Citizenship, News
Tagged Clarence Thomas, conflict of interest, Tea Party, Virginia Thomas
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Building Subcultures and Accepting Emotions
Quest Crew
I’m at the car dealership right now, getting one of the seatbelts on my car fixed. I accidentally broke it while installing a car seat, and now it’s gonna cost me. But man, this waiting room is high tech. Free wireless, free donuts, free coffee, lots of big screen TVs with CNBC. Plus a kids area.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Features
Tagged fashion, interracial relationships, subcultures
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Necessary Roughness by Marie G. Lee (Review)
bigWOWO Rating: Asian American Silver
I’m continuing my reading YA Asian American Lit. Necessary Roughness by Marie G. Lee was my latest reading. It is a YA book about a teenage Korean American boy and his twin sister who move from California to Minnesota with their parents to take over their uncle’s store. The story is told from the first person perspective of the boy, Chan, who adjusts to his new all-White high school by playing and excelling at football. He befriends the principal’s son, becomes a jock, and adjusts to his new surroundings while struggling with the common high school themes of popularity, girls, and parental relationships.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, books, Reviews
Tagged Marie G. Lee, Necessary Roughness
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Ashley Judd Graduates from Harvard with MPA to Help her Activism
The audience on this blog tends to be older and more experienced than that of the typical AA website, but occasionally we get comments from a younger set of people just starting to make major early life decisions. Here’s something I found that my be useful to some of you: Actress/Activist. Ashley Judd, the actress and daughter of Naomi, just graduated from Harvard with a Masters in Public Administration. She did it to become a more effective activist. (Although she did it at 42, so maybe it’s a good path for older people too.)
Local laws, local enforcement in Flushing
Oh, sweet! The NY Times allows us to embed videos.
Check out the video above–I used to shop at some of these places! It’s about how Chinese stores in Flushing prevent shoplifting. They either demand exorbitant amounts of money not to call the police–$400 for a first offense, $2,000 for subsequent offenses–or they plaster pictures of the accused all over their store. Some of the pictures even print the offenders social security numbers (which I guess would allow thieves–identity thieves–to go after the offenders?). Many of these offenders are here illegally, and they don’t want to get the police involved with anything they do, so they often pay up.
Teaching Apple to Really "Think Different"
Congratulations, King: 1st EVER Winner of the bigWOWO award! In doing so, he invented the category of “creative interference.” (Check the sidebar for my new page for award winners.)
It’s not often that someone sends me something so funny that I cry! I literally had tears in my eyes when I saw this one. Here’s King’s winning entry to the unplanned contest (see text below for explanation). Click the image to see the full size version:
In an earlier post, Robert clued us on to Apple’s new advertising campaign. If you check out the new iPhone video, as King mentions, you have not one…but TWO Asian Female/White Male pairings in a ROW. What are the chances of that?
Posted in Activism, Asian American, media, Strategy
Tagged advertising, Asian American, interracial relationships, media
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Kingstonian Tar-and-Feather
Hai Nguyen with her husband John after divorcing her supposedly sexist Vietnamese American ex-husband Greg
King posted this article in the FlashForward thread. He was posting it to say something about interracial relationships among African Americans, but the story I caught from the article was this one:
Hai Nguyen, 37, of Houston recalls the instant connection she felt after meeting her first Vietnamese boyfriend, Greg, in college. Nguyen says while she had to explain herself to white boyfriends, with Greg it was a feeling that “he so gets me, because we eat the same food, we like the same things, our families know each other and there is so little that needs to be said.”
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Praxis
Tagged interracial relationships, racism, stereotypes
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Vietnam to America
Check out the video above and read the story here. Some of the stories coming out of Vietnam are absolutely fascinating. Planning an escape–that’s true heroism. I’ve heard some stories from local former refugees in my area, and I think it’s absolutely crucial for people to preserve these stories.
If you’ve got a story to share, check out the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation here.
"Sister, Can You Lend An Ear" by Julia Oh
Sister, Can You Lend an Ear?
By Julia Oh
©2002 Julia Oh
Sisters know what I’m talking about. The demeaning terms and images that are associated with Asian women: “Suzie Wong. Geisha girl. Me so horny. Damsel in distress. China Doll. Bound feet. Fucky-sucky.” We live in a society where Asian women are forced to battle the the burdens of both sexism and racism, where social hierarchy positions white above Asian, man above woman. For that, there is nothing that makes me prouder than a strong sister. There is a growing collective consciousness among Asian women. Over the past few years, an increasing number of Asian women have taken the initiative to speak out against oppression. Asian women were at the forefront of protests to The Bloodhound Gang’s racist lyrics in the song “Yellow Fever”, as they were at the forefront of protests against Abercrombie & Fitch’s racist caricature T-shirts. Numerous Asian female empowerment sites have sprung up all over the internet, including one of my favorites, bigbadchinesemama.com, an in-your-face webpage that parodies Asian female porn sites designed for white male jerk-off fantasies.
