03.19.08
Posted in Activism and Empowerment, Media and Entertainment, Racism, Genocide at 10:10 am by jj_de_la_cruz
Producers William S. Beasley, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ryan Kavanaugh, Brett Ratner, Kevin Spacey are all racists for casting white people (Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth) in lead roles to portray people who were Asians in real life.
If you pay money to see this movie, you will be sending the message that you support producers’ decisions to deny employment to Asian-American actors based on their race.
What if Coach Carter was portrayed by Tom Hanks, American Gangster Frank Lucas portrayed by Tom Cruise, or if Brad Pitt portrayed Chris Gardner in Pursuit of Happyness?
Join the Boycott 21 group!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24381965401
The main characters of “Bringing Down the House” are Jeff Ma and Mike Aponte, former real-life MIT students who are both Asian-American men. According to the author, most of the actual blackjack team was composed of Asian males. Not only were Asian-American actors unsuitable for the leading roles in this flick: British actor Jim Sturgess had to be imported all the way from the UK to portray the role of Jeff Ma!
Please help boycott this film and tell Hollywood that it’s okay to portray Asian-American men in lead roles as three-dimensional human beings with personalities, feelings, and a sense of humor. You know. Regular people. Is that too much to ask for? Vote no on 21.
The producers of this movie claim that they are not racists, and that casting white people as leads is a decision motivated only by profit, even though the real-life characters were Asian.
Antebellum plantation owners were motivated by profit also, and they used slaves to achieve their goals. Pretty evil isn’t it?
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03.04.08
Posted in Racism, Crime at 10:01 am by admin
Scale 4 Physical Attack: The majority group vandalize minority group things, they burn property and carry out violent attacks on individuals or groups. Physical harm is done to members of the minority group. Examples: lynchings of blacks, pogroms against Jews in Europe, tarring and feathering Mormons in the 1800s. |
According to this article:
A Chinese teen at a Gravesend middle school was beaten so badly in a stairwell that another student was charged as an adult, the Daily News has learned.
The boy was so frightened after the Dec. 17 attack he is now accompanied to class by a social worker, his father said.
“‘Hitting Chinese is very fun,’ they said while beating him up,”
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02.29.08
Posted in Racism at 2:21 pm by william_lee
Asian American college students tend to make headlines as super students,Asian Americans often embraced as symbols of the merits of hard work and individual effort, all undertaken without complaint or political agitation.asain americans is topic for whites to make a fun because of thier back ground recently this phenomenon of racial caricatures as “satire” has emerged with Asian Americans as the object of the jokes.it is true that unlike African Americans, Latinos, or Native Americans, many Asian ethnic groups — though not all — do not struggle with severe under-representation in college matriculation or retention rates.Asian American students being the butt of such jokes, basically the punchline the jokes are heavily laden with racial stereotypes;these such essays reveal volumes about racial relationships, tensions, and perceptions of Asian American students
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Posted in Racism at 2:01 pm by william_lee
Charles Gilford III, a junior at the University of Colorado at Boulder, speaks to the crowd during a rally in response to Max Karson’s column Feb. 28 at the University Memorial Center in Boulder
Students and community members gathered to denounce Max Karson’s column as well as all hate speech during a rally held Feb. 28 at the University Memorial Center south terrace on the CU-Boulder campus there was many clad in red while others held signs, turned out for the event
Karson was in attendance along with several editors from The Campus Press, but they kept their distance from the crowd. Karson declined to give any comment.click here to know more
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02.20.08
Posted in Racism at 5:02 pm by william_lee
Recently there has been some tension between the white students and the Asian students. Max Karson, a staff editor at the Campus Press inflammatory remark “If it’s war the Asians want … It’s war they’ll get,”these comments angered some students and faculty members ,most people that the writer over here is racist and some even said he is a true flaming idiot. To learn more click here
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Posted in Racism at 10:05 am by william_lee
During super bowl XLII Salesgenie ran two arguably racist ads, the first ad concerned a financially desperate widget salesman of South Asian ancestry, who spoke broken English and had seven children. The second ads was more vociferously protested, the second ad was about a cartoon of a Chinese panda. The said panda was also suffering from the misfortunes of an unsuccessful business. These ad were made in such away that most hackneyed and insulting stereotypes of Asians, and outraged viewers of Chinese origin. These ads are an example of crude racial stereotypes.
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02.18.08
Posted in Racism at 11:11 am by william_lee
In 1942, the President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, where 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese immigrants were sent to 10 remote camps across the country after the Pearl Harbor attack Japanese were, for no good reason, considered a threat to this country.
Japanese-Americans were forcibly sent to Poston Relocation Center during Second World War. Internees began to arrive by train in May of 1942. The 3 1/2 years they spent at the camp are a shameful period in American history, but their work while imprisoned there continues to shape the land and the lives of the people there today. One of their biggest - and most difficult - tasks was the digging of irrigation ditches to bring water from the Colorado River to the fields. They were paid an average of $16 a month.
“American infrastructure was built by the government and Japanese labor.”
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02.15.08
Posted in Racism at 2:37 pm by william_lee
Feb. 19 is the anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066. The order led to the internment of over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
It is commemorated by Japanese Americans and supporters of redress as a “Day of Remembrance.”
Anti-Asian Racism has been intensifying in the United States since the 19th century.
In the late 19th century, U.S. Congress decided to discourage Japanese immigration, prohibit naturalization of Japanese immigrants and curtail land ownership by Japanese.
U.S. government banned virtually all immigration from Japan in 1924.California banned marriages between white people and people of Asian descent, Japanese Americans were subjected to a strict curfew, their bank accounts were frozen and many had their insurance policies canceled. The U.S. government encouraged anti-Japanese racism amongst the white working class.
This was an era when Japanese Americans faced pure racism
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01.30.08
Posted in Activism and Empowerment, Culture, Media and Entertainment, Racism, Editorial at 3:14 pm by jj_de_la_cruz
I know, it is the end of January already, but it’s not too late to implement this as your 2008 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION!
It’s no secret that we’re addicted to media content that’s produced by greedy, ignorant, money grubbing racists. They produce it because we keep buying it. So, if you’re among those who consume such diversity-negligent media, you have no right to complain. Instead of whining about it, you should stop feeding the monster, and do your part to fight it.
Print the following and post it on your refrigerator. Follow these four steps, and we’ll be on our way to media empowerment.
MY NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION
- DETOX: I HEREBY RESOLVE TO KICK THE HABIT NOW, AND STOP CONSUMING (LEGIT) COPIES OF DIVERSITY-NEGLIGENT CONTENT.That diversity-negligent GENOCIDAL media content we’re all addicted to? It’s like crack. Actually, more like OPIUM. Those Hollywood bastards know it’s genocidal, yet they still peddle it to us cuz it makes them gobs of money. It’s the Opium War of the 21st Century.
- THE “PATCH”: IF I MUST CONSUME DIVERSITY-NEGLIGENT CONTENT, I WILL CONSUME IT IN A WAY THAT DOES NOT BENEFIT THE PRODUCERS OF SUCH CONTENT, BECAUSE THEY DON’T DESERVE MY MONEY.I know it’s a tough habit to kick, but if you absolutely just have to get your fix of Desperate Housewives, The O.C. or white people in romantic comedies, get it from an “alternative source” in Chinatown. A friend of mine also likes to go to thepiratebay [dot] org, but the last time we checked, that was illegal, so our Fallout Central stance on that is to NOT go to thepiratebay [dot] org.
- FILL THE VOID: I PROMISE TO ACTIVELY SUPPORT ASIAN AND ASIAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS, ACTORS, AND PRODUCERS.Just cuz you’ve kicked the habit doesn’t mean that there isn’t anything worth watching. On the contrary, there’s a LOT of good content out there. Support Asian films and filmmakers. If you live in New York or L.A., go see what’s playing at the ImaginAsian. In New York, attend performances by NAATCO, MaYi or DiverseCity Theater. They put on lots of dynamic shows featuring talented, yet under-appreciated, Asian actors. The more you support these actors, the stronger they will be, and as you know: In America, we have to work twice as hard to be half as good.
- LOOK TO THE FUTURE: I RESOLVE TO FACILITATE THE DIVERSITY-ORIENTED EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION.Keep track of how much money you’re saving by NOT consuming diversity-negligent content. Why? Because we need to use that money to help inoculate the next generation from the filth in today’s media content. You should donate the money to diversity-oriented educational programs for children. If you don’t know of any such programs, here’s a good place to start: The RiceDaddies.com Empowerment in Diversity Challenge. Here’s another: APEX - dedicated to promoting the development of inner-city Asian American youth by providing them with adult role models, educational programs, social services, and career guidance.
If everyone did the things on this list, we’d be well on our way to true Asian-American empowerment through the media.
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01.25.08
Posted in Activism and Empowerment, Community Offenders, Culture, Media and Entertainment, Racism, Education, Sexuality, Editorial at 11:20 am by mark_chang
FIRST, A COUPLE EXAMPLES
In the 2006 remake of “The Pink Panther”, Kevin Kline plays a detective who, upon learning that a suspect in a high profile murder case may have been Chinese, states something to the effect of: “go to China and round up and question every Chinaman there.”
Understand:
- It’s a lighthearted comedy
- It’s not meant to be taken seriously
- It was designed to make the detective (Kline) look moronic
- It was an isolated incident (within that particular movie)
Do the points above make you feel any better about it?
In Rush Hour 3, a conversation between Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan goes something like:
Tucker: “I’m half Chinese.”
Chan: “YOU’RE half Chinese?”
<Tucker then looks down at his crotch>
Tucker: “From the waist up”
Why a martial artist would let some clown disrespect him throughout 3 consecutive films is another topic altogether.
Understand:
- It’s a lighthearted comedy
- It’s not meant to be taken seriously
- The topic wasn’t a focal point of the film
- Interracial jokes are an integral part of the Rush hour series
Again, do the points above make you feel any better about it?
AGREE OR DISAGREE?
When a blatant racist attack is launched (E.G. Sarah Silverman/Conan O’Brian, O’Shea Jackson (aka “Ice Cube”), Eddie Murphy, The Bloodhound Gang, et al) there is an obvious argument against it and a reason (for those who have a sack) to stand up to it.
However, when the degradation is subtle and in passing (as in the aforementioned examples), it is as effective (if not more so), yet more difficult to defend against as there is less proverbial meat to grab a hold of.
ARE APA FILMS OVERLY PASSIVE?
With all this Asian stereotyping, racism, etc. in the media, an APA rapper or film really has “carte blanche” to produce “no holds barred” recordings/films.
Where David Chang (creator of Ghettopoly) made his mistake was using a different medium. In other words, he couldn’t use the “defense” that “other board games degrade Asians”.
But since nothing’s been off limits against APAs (our culture, our physical features, our language, our names, our countries of origin, etc.) in film or music, shouldn’t we be justified in “returning the favor”?
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