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As a follow up to our recent reporting on a Race Hate Beating in NYC Chinatown, we have received the following information regarding the court date set for the perps:
1/17/08
100 Center Street
Room Part F
anytime from 9am - 5pm
Several comments (recently moved from the moderation queue to the actual website) submitted by our website visitors have expressed a dissatisfaction with the presentation of articles, as well as the opinions expressed. Being that this is a service to you, the American Asian community, we would like to provide an opportunity for you to participate. If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of this website or podcast, we invite you to take…
We challenge you to tell us and all of our website visitors what you think! We invite you to talk about:
* Opinions we’ve expressed that you think are either full of crap, or are weak, are not helpful, or do harm to our community.
* Things that we didn’t cover but you think we should have covered.
* Any problem you have with anything on our website whatsoever!
We will provide a special session during our next podcast on Sunday, 1/6/08 for you to do this. Dial directly into our podcast on 1/6/08 from 2:45 - 3:00pm EST @ 212-255-2898.
We look forward to hearing from you then!
FALLOUT CENTRAL
(**Can’t call in at that time? Drop us a line at comments@falloutcentral.com and let us know which Sunday you ARE available. We’ll be happy to set aside some time for you to speak your mind during any one of our pocast recording sessions on any Sunday in 2008!)
We have FINALLY sifted through the 15,000+ comments in our moderation queue. Due to the ridiculous amount of spam that we get, this is an extremely laborious process.
You will find that comments as much as 9 weeks old will now appear under the articles that they were originally posted under.
We have modified our spam filters in order to make this process more efficient, so that you don’t have to wait 9 weeks to see your comments published.
American Asians still have yet to reach that special place that I like to call “the protected minority pedestal.” There are just certain minorities in this country that are, in many ways, protected. Injustices brought upon their community are publicized in mainstream media, certain cases of racial discrimination are acted upon by individuals in seats of power (example: people get fired for making racially insensitive comments), etc., etc. I was reminded of this while reading a recent article on CNN that talked about how Will Smith was angry about how someone mis-interpreted his recent comments about Hitler. Would any of this matter if there weren’t such powerful individuals of a certain minority heritage in the seats of power in his industry? We may never know, but my guess: probably not.
Now, with regards to American Asians– we simply have not reached that coveted “protected minority” status where people are really, really, REALLY careful about things they say about us, whether they be full-on attacks against the community (often masked under the guise of “comedy”), or off-the-cuff comments that aren’t intended to offend, as was the case with Will Smith’s comment mentioned above. Tell us what you think– what do American Asians need to do in order to reach that ever-so-special “protected minority” status?
GOLD
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Zhou, Shiming CHN
SILVER
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Tanamor, Harry PHI
Jongjohor, Somjit THA
Badar-Uugan, Enkhbat MON
Boonjumnong, Non THA
BRONZE (two per weight division)
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Ruenroeng, Amnat THA
Li, Yang CHN
Kim, Song Guk KOR
Hanati, Silamu CHN
Yushan, Nijiati CHN
Zhang, Zhilei CHN
So, what do you get when too many Asians put a non-Asian on a pedestal? Well the Japanese tend to do an overabundance of asskissing, but I’ll save that for another article. So let me answer the question. The truth is, when Asians put a non-Asian on a pedestal - or simply give them respect - these non-Asians will respond with the extreme opposite, disrespect.
The best examples come from Asian female/non-Asian male couples. All too often you’ll hear stories of weak-minded Asian women allowing their non-Asian boyfriends to talk smack about Asians. How many non-Asian guys with Asian girlfriends really respect our culture? My best guess is: not enough. Okay, I just had to get that off my chest. Now let’s talk about the news article here - “Spielberg urges China again to help end Darfur ‘genocide’.”
In the article, film director Steven Spielberg, who is currently serving as an artistic advisor for the Beijing olympics, decides to show a bit of disrespect. Apparently, for the second time Stevie appealed to Chinese president Hu Jintao to do something about the situation in Darfur.
I have a few words for Stevie: dont bite the hand that feeds you! They hired you so keep your mouth shut!
During these times of nonstop anti-China news coupled with purebread ethnocentrism, it’s no surprise Stevie, or most people, would jump on the anti-China bandwagon. Can you believe this man, who has been hired by China, shows his appreciation by practially saying, “Thanks for the job, but I will now put you down.”
Unfortunately, this is a subject difficult for many to grasp. So allow me to teach it: if someone hires you, you dont put them down. Why? Because it’s disrespectful. And if your boyfriend/girlfriend talks smack about our culture, ask for respect. Believe me, too many people dont know any better.
DULUTH, Minn. (December 11, 2007) – The Asian community of Minnesota has a lot to be proud of, and can now say that it is home to the nation’s best female hockey player. Julie Chu, the best American-born collegiate woman hockey player in the country for 2006-07, is now an Assistant Coach in Women’s Hockey at the University of Minnesota – Duluth.
It truly is awesome that more than 100 police, sheriff’s detectives and federal agents went on a manhunt to find the person who shot and killed Sheriff’s Detective Vu Nguyen, who was killed Wednesday in south Sacramento (photo). My heart goes out to his family and loved ones.
It is sad, however, that these fallen Asian brothers will not receive even a miniscule fraction of such effort.