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The Past, Present, And Future Of Asian American Basketball
With a knee injury ending Linsanity for the 2012 regular season, one might wonder about the future of Asian American basketball. Is all of the current enthusiasm over basketball just a temporary craze that will fizzle out? Will another Jeremy Lin emerge? To answer those questions, it’s helpful to look at the past history of Asian American basketball to see where it is going in the future.
Are The Writers Of HBO’s Girls Just Clueless?
After my last post on HBO’s Girls, I was still willing to still give the series a shot. Except now I’m realizing something even worse–these writers really have no clue why people are upset over the lack of minority representation in their New York based show. Amazing. Let me just say that I’m not surprised that a lot of people are drinking the haterade when it comes to this show. Anything that’s deemed hipster-ish with [...] Continue »
Khmer Deportation Video Wins Public Vote, Disappears From White House AAPI Website
I guess it’s not surprising. I didn’t think that the White House would actually invite this group to present their concerns about the issue of deportation to officials in the Obama Administration. Our government isn’t that open to discussing topics that it would rather ignore. Especially since it’s election year, ya know.
Stability Vs. Independence: Expectations Of Asian Women
By Hua Jing lI At times I often ponder about a life in China. Having moved to England at the age of 5, I re-started my life in a different country and culture. As a result, my understanding and opinions are drastically different from my extended family members. In particular, my lifestyle choices. Within China, conceiving a family predominantly and culturally defines success. It is often unusual for females or males to remain single for [...] Continue »
Colleges Resist Asian American’s Success
A new opinion piece by Jonathan Zimmerman in the Philadelphia Inquirer compares today’s discrimination against Asian Americans in college admissions and hiring for college presidential positions with that of Jews in the early 20th century. Some of the statistics are remarkably similar. Like Jews in the 1960s, they [Asian Americans] hold just 1 percent of higher-education presidencies.
An Open Letter To Marion Barry & His “Dirty Asian” Problem
By Esther Dear Council Member Marion Barry, You are right to want healthy food for your community and more businesses owned by African Americans. You are right to have a problem with Plexiglass walls. However, your string of hateful remarks about Asian storeowners was based on nothing more than your own racism, and you have yet to identify the real problems affecting your community. It is an uncomfortable thing to see Asian-owned stores in low-income [...] Continue »
Appeals Court Upholds California’s Ban On Affirmative Action
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld California’s Proposition 209′s ban on Affirmative Action. Proposition 209 has withstood a number of attempts to overturn it, including California bill SB 185. The plaintiffs in this latest appeal cited a 50% drop in Black, Latino, and Native American enrollment at UC Berkeley and UCLA the year after the law was passed by California voters in 1996. A previous attempt to overturn the law was rejected by the [...] Continue »
What You Do Reflects Badly On All of Us
I admit that I cringe whenever I see or hear of an Asian Pacific Islander (API) doing something stupid, embarrassing, or downright immoral and unlawful. I always feel as though it reflects badly on myself. Like when that kid shot up his college in Virginia. Or that guy that was involved in the Barry Bonds homerun baseball lawsuit (too obscure?). Or even something smaller, the bad driver or the tourist taking photos of everything. Or [...] Continue »
Marion Barry and His Issue Against “Dirty Asian Shops”
After celebrating his win today in the Democratic primary for the Ward 8 on the D.C. Council, Former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry made this particular comment at his victory party: “We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops,” Barry said. “They ought to go. I’m going to say that right now. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.”
The Challenges Of Recruiting Asian Americans As Police
I had mixed feelings when I read this article describing how US Police Departments have challenges recruiting Asian Americans. I liked how it pointed out how the lack of cultural understanding about Asian Americans has serious consequences (in San Jose, police shot a mentally ill woman for wielding what turned out to be not a meat cleaver but a Vietnamese vegetable peeler). I also thought that pointing out the converse lack of understanding about police [...] Continue »
Why I Date Only White Women
I have a secret that I’ve never blogged about until now – I only date white women. Maybe it’s because I grew up in a predominately white suburb in Western Massachusetts and most of the attractive women on TV are white. To be honest, I’m also really into MILF‘s, and one thing I have definitely noticed is that white women age fairly rapidly once they hit their 30s – which is a bonus for me. [...] Continue »
Why Jeremy Lin Isn’t Really Asian
The first time I heard about Jeremy Lin was when he was playing for Harvard a few years ago. There was a lot of buzz about him (especially on Asian American blogs) because people assumed he was Asian. I didn’t say anything back then but I had my doubts that he really WAS Asian. Now that he’s an international phenomenon, the starting point guard for the New York Knicks, and the spokesperson for Volkswagen I [...] Continue »
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