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Memorial's Day

I have lived in the Washington DC area since 1996. I try to go to the Mall as often as possible, but like many of us who who live in areas where there are large attractions, we sometimes don't go to the trouble to see th…
Minority Report: Response 2

If you want to submit your senryu poem, click hereMy past two entries have further elicited responses from some of you... and nothing from others. It is a touchy subject, I realize, and I hope that I am not turning…
Empty Praise: Response

If you want to submit your senryu poem, click hereIt was amazing how varied the comments were to yesterdays post. I think I exhausted my "racial issues" energy for the next month or so, but I just want to squeeze o…
Empty Praise: Identifying by Race

Recently, Sleetse wrote that he was tired of being a "glob." I was surprised and flattered that he remembered the word I "coined" in nlute, a short narrative of selected periods of my life. I too was a glob--good little …
Randomocity

Comment of the day... wait... so its superbowl sunday? -- Posted 2/1/2004 BarbEric_Bojo -- Patriots 32 Panthers 29 Ok, Carolina lost, but it was an exciting game, and Deshaun got his touchdown, the highlight fo…
Once upon a time...

I was in the San Jose airport lobby carrying my then 2-year old daughter, when an old white lady came up to me and marveled: "You Oritentals sure have the cutest babies." Now I had two possible responses floating in my…
Discrimination is discrimination

Hey JC, discrimination is discrimination, but the "reverse" in "reverse discrimination" implies that the victim of such discrimination is being subjected to a similar discrimination. Yeah, right. As if Bakke was denied a…
Gaijin vs. gaikokujin II

Ok, there seems to be a difference of opinion, and I think I should have put more thought into it than I did. This is what I get for talking off the top of my head. Takunishi, a JA (sorta? Weren't you born in Japan?), sa…
Gaijin vs. gaikokujin

Njel wrote about the term gaijin. Okay, gaijin IS a racist term because its usage is based on race, but not in the way Jap, or Gook or Kike or the N word is used in English. First of all, it is not an abbreviation of gai…
Asians in America I

My last post elicited different comments, which is, in my opinion, a good thing. Discussion--even if divergent and at times conflicting--is always good in that it is the first step in understanding each other and getting…

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