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Mamazede pointed out this seriously vile and disgusting “comedian” Tracey Ullman who has a sketch comedy show called State of The Union. In it, she constantly uses brownface, blackface, and yellowface. She gets away with it, gets praised for it, and is lauded as a comedic genius. Here are some other examples of her bigotry:
A PSA from the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association:
We don’t care if you feel Jeremy Lin doesn’t play well enough to be a 2013 All-Star. We don’t even care if you’re just bizarrely passionate about Volvo commercials.
But we do care about racism.
And for the record, these kinds of Tweets are not okay.
Not today, not ever.
Racism.
Before the glossy magazine covers and marriage proposals from “Linsane” fans, Jeremy Lin was a quiet NBA journeyman, so unknown to the public eye, the New York Knicks’ security guards didn’t recognize him well enough to let him into the arena. For months, in a grind that would wear anyone down, Jeremy struggled to hold onto a roster spot in the sport he grew up loving. Days from being cut by the third consecutive basketball team, no one could have ever predicted what was going to happen next. The unassuming Harvard alum would take us on one of the wildest rides in sports history as fans all around the world began to take notice.
What began as a film project to document the life of an overlooked NBA walk-on became our all-access pass to one of the unlikeliest stories ever to be told. We have gained exclusive footage with friends, family, teammates, pastors, and Jeremy himself, from home videos of a young Jeremy taking it to the hoop, his personal reflections as he struggled through stints in the NBA D-League, that Christmas day when he was cut by the Rockets, to when he joined the Knicks with a coach he had yet to speak to and a playbook he hadn’t even seen. We traveled with him to Asia to explore his family roots and interviewed him about his hopes and aspirations in the NBA.
We have had the exclusive permission to document Jeremy’s personal life for several years now, capturing never-before-seen footage of him at the highest and lowest points in his basketball career. An intimate portrayal of a rising hero fighting unbeatable odds, it is our joy to share Jeremy Lin’s story with you now.
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This facebook page….
https://www.facebook.com/ming.xue.353
It’s not as bad as some of the tweets that have been posted, but a parody of Chinese people that’s gone this far is kind of ridiculous.
This is some racist motherfucking bullshit.
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hamtramck asked: I’m using this color standard in a sock I’m designing, will the sock be racist?
Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiit, that is just racist as fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
HAHAHAHA. I am only this color if I’m carsick and/or have malaria. I think.
Presented without further comment.
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I don’t know if I want to cry or laugh.
BBC has a website to teach kids primary languages, such as French, Spanish, and Chinese. Of course, they all need costumes to show off their culture, right? While the French-teaching kid wears a beret and the Spanish-teaching one wears a sombrero…..
A BOWL OF RICE?
NOT EVEN A RICE HAT.
A BOWL.
OF.
RICE.
You can check it out for yourself at http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/
Discriminatory Florida Law Doesn’t Allow Asians to Own Property: I was talking about this with my parents, who live in Florida. They had no idea it existed, and neither did I.
Orlando lawyer Christine Ho, 32, an associate with the downtown Orlando law firm Litchford & Christopher P.A., is active in the Greater Orlando Asian American Bar Association and chairwoman of its Alien Land Law Committee. She spoke recently with Orlando Sentinel staff writer Mary Shanklin.
CFB: What is the Alien Land Law?
It’s this law from 1926, back in the day when there was a lot of discrimination against Asian immigrants. And it targeted Asian immigrants because people did not want them to own property. Florida wasn’t the only state to pass an Alien Land Law.
CFB: How did you learn about it?I originally became aware of it when it was on the ballot to be overturned in 2008.
CFB: So you were in the ballot booth when you first saw it?
Yes. I had heard about it prior to the voting. I knew it was supposed to overturn a law that was discriminatory toward Asians. But I wasn’t involved in campaigning for the ballot measure.
CFB: What did you think about it when you first heard about it?
I was trying to tell people about it because most people didn’t know about it. That day that we voted, I talked to other voters and they said they voted against it. They said they thought it had to do with illegal immigration and I said, ‘No, that’s not what it was.’ But it was too late then.
CFB: What was the ballot outcome?
It failed, with 47.9 percent voting yes [to overturn] and 52.1 percent voting no. You need 60 percent to pass.
CFB: Why do you think Florida is the last state in the U.S. to have such a law on its books?
I think people are generally not aware of it. Nobody is for discrimination. I think it’s New Mexico that recently repealed its Alien Land Law, and they had to do it twice because the original ballot wording was ‘illegal immigration.’ The second time they focused on equality, and it passed overwhelmingly.
CFB: Does it carry any weight?
It’s definitely not enforced, but it’s definitely a blot on Florida’s Constitution. The Greater Orlando American Asian Bar Association has a lot of real estate attorneys, and they’ve come across foreign investors who were concerned about this law and whether it would deter them from investing in this state, which is an important issue, particularly in this period of time.
CFB: What is being done to try to overturn that part of the constitution?
The Greater Orlando American Asian Bar Association received a grant from the Florida Bar Association to generally educate the public about it. So we’re trying to educate community leaders about this antiquated and discriminatory law. And eventually we hope to get enough support to get it on the ballot. The problem we’re facing is that, because it failed the first time, legislators might be reluctant to sponsor it again because no one wants to be associated with a failed ballot measure.
CFB: What about getting signatures to get on the ballot?
We could do that as well. It would take a lot of effort. We’re thinking of going through the courts to get it declared unconstitutional, but we’d need to find the right plaintiff. We have spoken with other Asian American bar associations in Florida, and everyone’s interested in working on this project.
CFB: What’s needed to get the 60 percent majority to overturn it?
I think the wording of the ballot measure just needs to be improved. They used the word ‘aliens’ in 2008 and that’s the main confusion spot. There have been more recent resolutions in the House and Senate in Florida and, while they have not been voted on, they have used words like ‘fairness’ and ‘equality.’ That is the type of wording that would be much more successful.
CFB: Do you think Asians have been welcomed into the real estate world in Orlando and elsewhere in Florida?
Yes, I do. I own property here. I think the Mills-50 district is part of the reason I moved here.
(Source: orlandosentinel.com)
Found: Anti-Asian band
I found a group that decided using “the slants” in their name as well. It is not a group of Asian Americans that also decided to use their name as a self-referential term of pride or propagating re-appropriation. It was started by a non-Asian who is using “ching-chong” racist stereotypes.
Here’s the link to their band page, where they call themselves “Adam and The Slants.”
It is obviously a joke but this Slant is not laughing. Please join me in reporting this on Facebook as racial hate speech.
Report it!
The updates from the “band” include dog jokes, more “ching-chong”, and endless endless racism and discrimination.
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To create a “historical drama” of the Transcontinental Railroad but to remove the contributions of the Chinese (who were pretty much responsible for its construction) is absolutely unimaginable. Yet AMC made the decision to do this.
The entertainment industry continues to distort the role of Asian Americans in the building of this country. It disgusts me.
This was their response/explanation:After that exercise in question non-answering, AMC moved on to the business at hand: plugging its new period drama series, “Hell on Wheels,” about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad and the tent city that moved along the railroad as it was being built.
Right off the bat, the press wanted to know why there are no Chinese immigrant characters in the series, given that Chinese labor played a big role in the construction of the cross-country railroad.
More accurately, the question put to the show’s creators, Joe and Tony Gayton, was: “I’m like, ‘Where are the Chinese? . . . I mean, it was a major part of the thing!’ ”
“I predicted this is probably going to be the first question we were going to be asked,” creator Joe Gayton said proudly. “And probably rightfully so,” he added graciously, “because I think what a lot of people think of when they think about the Transcontinental Railroad is the contribution of the Chinese immigrants.”
But, he explained, “one of the things that really caught me is, just, it’s just so American, the idea of a tent city that packs up and moves, you know. And it’s violent, and it’s given to vice and gambling, but there’s churches there. And there was just something about that that caught me and Joe, and I think that’s probably the reason,” he said.
This cleared things up not at all.
“And just, budget-wise and time-wise . . . we could really only concentrate on one side of [the railroad building], and that’s probably why we, you know, that’s why we chose the [emanating from the East Coast] Union Pacific as opposed to the [emanating from the West Coast] Central Pacific.”
Now clear as mud.
“The genesis of the railroad started in the East,” said Tony Gayton, taking a whack at the question which, to refresh your memory as we travel further and further down the Gayton Family Rabbit Hole, was, “Why no Chinese characters?”
“It was Abraham Lincoln’s idea, and we’ve likened it to JFK, you know, saying, ‘We are going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade,’ ” Tony Gayton prattled on merrily.
“And it was very similar. So it just seemed a good starting point.”
But, he promised, “The Central Pacific will be a hint in the show. I mean, we will know that they are out there, building.”
“Having said that, we did write the Central Pacific into the pilot,” Joe Gayton jumped back in, sensing the explanation was not going over as well as might be hoped.
“And people asked us if we were insane, if we were trying to get both of the stories — service both of the stories — in a one-hour pilot. So they ended up getting excised.”
And there you have your answer, at long last: The Chinese characters? They got “excised.”
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