The Conversation
- Jeremy Lin: Our Generation’s Joe Louis (9)
- Amy Chua: Chinese Conceit, Chinese Ignorance, and the $24,000 question (247)
- bigWOWO: Not sure if you’re a “bot” or a real person, Andre, but I know lots of Chuas. Only...
- Andre M. Smith: Further on Chua as a Chinese surname . . . My wife, a gyn surgeon, hails from a family of...
- “But he hit me back first!” (44)
- King: I will be kissing Asian women like Linda against the wall without a shirt”. Yuck!!!
- Raguel: “I’m glad you guys are pissed off at blacks. It takes the pressure off of me while you are hating...
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- Seeking Asian Female (8)
- Raguel: Yes! I mean with me. How did I miss that part out? And why do I suddenly feel some anxiety?
But here is an... - King: “If I ever get a mail order bride I will get her addicted to sex first.” I assume you mean with you...
- bigWOWO: Linda, Haha! Maybe that dude is on to something with the foreign language nagging. But to be honest, maybe...
- Raguel: Yes! I mean with me. How did I miss that part out? And why do I suddenly feel some anxiety?
- The Other-Directed Personality (1)
- Siegfried: Mitt got Obama worried. He is shaking in his boots. It’s over for Obama because Mitt is going to...
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (9)
- N: @TD Good pick up on that one.
- trolldetector: @Colin I love how whites keep trying to troll their divide tactics Asian blogs under different guises.
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Colin: I’m pretty sure Jeremy Lin and his supporters are not the same person.
- Jeremy Lin shines (21)
- trolldetector: GO JEREMY LIN
- N: @danny You should youtube his college games. The two against Boston college and the one against UConn. Lol, he can...
- Lingyai: @Ben Efsaneyim Why would it be surprising a non Asian crowd cheering for Lin? Most of the NBA fans going to...
- What Cultures Value (22)
- trolldetector: @Colin. Dont you belong on a Lord Of The Rings filmset? Thats where most white trolls dwell isnt it?
- colin: A bit late to this, but bigwowo, you grossly underestimate the anti-work and anti-intellectual ethic here in...
- bigWOWO: Yeah, I could go for that.
- About A Boy by Nick Hornby (6)
- 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...
- Superbowl Recipe and Xenophobic Superbowl Ad (22)
- 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
- Stop SOPA and PIPA (9)
- 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...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (402)
- bigWOWO: Here’s an interesting suggestion coming out of MIT: Connectome by Sebastian Seung...
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- Raguel: You know Andre, you and me, I think we and a lot of other folks may have gone through some pretty harrowing...
- Andre M. Smith: Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew....
- Two podcasts that address racism in the military, and Danny Chen the person (9)
- Raguel: The origins of racism in the American military as described by loudestfuckingazns is accurate. Very recently,...
- bigWOWO: Sorry, Larry, just noticed that the spam robot junked your comment. Approved!
- bigWOWO: Agreed. It just has more weight if you include your name. Not that the ideas are any less valid, but it just...
- Facebook IPO (5)
- 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...
- Raguel: People are too accustomed to thinking about value only in terms of money. Even artists are guilty of it. Some...
- Activism is as activism does (10)
- 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...
- How to Win a Streetfight (18)
- 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...
- UFC 117 Sonnen vs. Silva Recap (1)
- bigWOWO: I think Michael Bisping solved the Chael Sonnen puzzle today, even though he lost a controversial decision....
- 6 on 1 Beatdown of Asian Man (36)
- 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...
- Raguel: I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima in...
- Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan (Review) (6)
- 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),...
- Hitler: Kids suck lol.
- The Asian Rock Thread (16)
- 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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- Tommy: I think I’m coming here more for Moro’s comments than BigWoWO’s posts.
- “Lazy” Americans and the Decline of the American Middle Class (6)
- bigWOWO: But kobu, how can we have literature and art without money to support artists and writers? About...
Tag Archives: Politics
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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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.”
Podcast: Sam Yoon, Candidate for Mayor of Boston
Sam Yoon and Family
Today I had a podcast with Sam Yoon, Candidate for Mayor of Boston. Intern Sagar Sane, who made all the arrangements for the podcast and who is helping with internet publicity, was also present. The podcast is 46 minutes and 13 seconds long. For those who are following my ridiculous ongoing battle to get GarageBand ’08 to import large files directly to mp3, this time I WON, and the podcast is a sleek and slim 21.2 megs. Download it here, or listen to it here:
Posted in Activism, parenting, Podcasts, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Asian American, Boston, mayor, Politics, Sagar Sane, Sam Yoon, Yul Kwon
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Sarah Palin Resigning
Sarah Palin
It looks like Sarah Palin will be stepping down from her post as Governor of Alaska. Believe it or not, people are actually saying that she’s doing so in order to lay the groundwork for a shot at the presidency. Unbelievable. If you look at the announcement on her own website, it’s clear that she either can’t write, or she hired a ghost writer who is unable to write. That’s pretty bad for someone who claims to have read “all” the newspapers. The scary thing is that after Ensign and Sanford got tripped up with their infidelity, she may actually be a GOP frontrunner. I’m all for watching the GOP stumble, trip, and embarass themselves over the inane nonsense that they’ve put us through, but come on. If Palin is the frontrunner, it’s hard to make the argument that we’re truly living in a two-party system.
Sotomayor vs. Thomas
Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor during their college days
Today the NY Times had a very fair and balanced (if I’m allowed to use the term) comparison between Clarence Thomas’s and Sonia Sotomayor’s biographies and views on race. It presents a three dimensional view of both people.
As you all know, I don’t know if I necessarily support Sotomayor’s nomination, but I do think the fact that she is a Latina will help provide a greater richness to the decisions and opinions of the Supreme Court. I think it’s important for the nation’s government to look like and to share the experiences of the people it serves. It broadens her perspective, and her presence will broaden the perspective of the Court. Against an “equally qualified” White man, I would support her, although I put “equally qualified” in quotes since I believe her diversity is a qualification.
That Gravitational Pull
Sandra Day O'Connor being sworn in, 1981
The NY Times had a good article on how minority judges change the dynamics of how a committee operates. They start with Thurgood Marshall, who was the first non-white male Supreme Court Justice, and then they move to talk about Ginsburg and O’Connor. The article discusses how the mere presence of a minority changes the way the club operates. Even Scalia noted the influence.
But the other justices did get to know Justice Marshall, and even the more conservative ones acknowledged that his very presence exerted a gravitational pull more powerful than his single vote.
Gingrich calls Sotomayor "racist"
See CNN story here.
When are these Repubs going to realize how pointless their accusations are? 107 of 111 Supreme Court justices have been White men. 43 of 44 U.S. Presidents have been White men. The vast majority of Fortune 500 CEOs are White men. Before Pelosi, ALL of the Speakers of the House, Mr. Gingrich, were White men. To make it seem like the playing field is equal when the playing field is clearly unequal would strike any rational person as being incorrect.
Her experience is different from yours, Mr. Gingrich. If they had more people like her in positions of power, you would probably realize this.
Obama Nominates Hispanic American Supreme Court Justice
President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayer to the U.S. Supreme Court. She would be the first Hispanic American Supreme Court Justice ever, and she would be the third female justice, after Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor.
Christian Fundamentalist Hit Men and Holy Wars
Rummy
Thanks to Micah who sent this article.
It scares the hell out of me whenever I write posts that contain the tags “religion” and “politics” together. But thanks to eight years of Bush, I get the opportunity to post such things over and over. In the latest news, it appears that Donald Rumsfeld, the Defense Secretary of the United States during the Iraqi invasion, used to “curry favor” with President George W. Bush by writing “militaristic passages from the Bible on the cover pages of White House intelligence documents.” For example:
Senator Arlen Specter Switches Parties
Senator Arlen Spector
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30456741
Wow. This is huge news. I’m…in shock.
I think the Republicans are going to have to work really hard on their message. Obviously it’s not working, even for their most loyal and powerful leaders. I think Specter’s decision to jump is going to have at least some kind of domino effect on the rest of the party.
