Langston Hughes, one of my favorite poets from the Harlem Renaissance, wrote a poem called The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Wanna hear it? Here it goes: I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the [...]
The following conversation took place at work in the office after classes. My co-workers were gawking over a picture of the band: Girls Generation Me: (looking over his shoulder) They’re cute. Who’s that? AKB48? Co-Worker: No, this is Girls Generation. Me: Never heard of them. CW: They’re very popular right now. Me: I can see [...]
Here’s another jewel from the Hunterfly Road Publishing vault. This one also made it into the book, “Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist”, as part of chapter 3. I’ve included this post in the series because of the comments it generated, particularly those discussing the relationship between black men and women here in [...]
Just a quick hit about my live interview tomorrow night at 10pm on Live w/Katie Adler. Haven’t done any interviews since last year but with the soon to be released second book, I’ll probably be doing a few more in the days to come, as well as a number of readings, so hold tight for [...]
The following conversation took place in a café in Yokohama…actually almost the SAME conversation has taken place about 7 times over the past week, but finally decided to post about it. This is between myself and a Japanese private student. Continued from Part 1 Me: Do you think it makes a difference whether their players [...]
The following conversation took place in a café in Yokohama…actually almost the SAME conversation has taken place about 7 times over the past week, but finally decided to post about it. This is between myself and a Japanese private student. Student: Americans like baseball number one… Me: I dunno…probably that, or American football, or basketball…or maybe soccer. Student: Oh [...]
The following two videos are about the Hip-Hop scene in Japan. The first is from a presentation done at UCLA of the results of research done by a student of Japanese Hip-Hop by the name of Dexter Thomas on Racism and Right-Wing ideology in Japanese Hip-Hop. The second video is a similar presentation but with [...]
Here’s another jewel from the Hunterfly Road Publishing vault. This one also made it into the book, “Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist”, as part of chapter 5. I’ve included this post in the series not so much because of the comments it generated at the time (though I have included them), but because [...]
Here’s another jewel from the Hunterfly Road Publishing vault. However this one did make it into the book, “Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist”, as part of chapter 3. I’ve included this post in the series mostly because of the comments it generated at the time. It was one of the more [...]
Here’s another jewel from the Hunterfly Road Publishing vault, the second of several lost chapters of “Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist” Here we have the continuation from Part 1: Orenthal. Click here for part 1 of the Lost Chapters As I said before, while I am in the process of editing [...]
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