In honor of Black History Month, I’ve decided to do a series this month on black writers who have influenced not only me but people of all races all over the world, both historically and currently. The list is long and distinguished, but I will limit my list to those that impacted me the most. Some may be familiar [...]
This post is a submission to the Blog festival being hosted by Amanda of Whoa I’m In Japan! Click the cute icon on the left to see the announcement and guidelines for entry. I thought about what to write for her festival’s theme (Important things I’ve learned living abroad) for about all of 10 minutes before an idea [...]
Two brief Announcements: 1- Well, it’s about that time, y’all! Loco in Yokohama started out as an idea buzzing around my head. Soon it manifested itself as a free WordPress blog. Then, a year later, upgraded to a self-hosted blog , complete with a snazzy new banner and logo and other fine features… Now it’s about to take a [...]
A couple of years back there was a furor over a Japanese McDonald’s ad campaign featuring a white flunky japanophile who can’t manage to get nihongo (spoken or written) through his thick foreign skull…reinforcing this and other negative stereotypes about white foreigners, as if they needed reinforcing… Mr. Debito even compared Mr. James to Stepin [...]
Following the tragic events of March 11th (and their aftermath), in an effort to dig myself out from beneath the rubble of doom and gloom that life here in Japan had taken on, I threw a Back to Life Blog Party. And, it was exceedingly successful! The party was hot, the “DJs” were talented and jovial, readers were engaging and [...]
http://youtu.be/Gu_uD11SIDg Watching this video, and reading the comments people have left in response to it, makes me sick. Black men, particularly African American men, have been “losing it” for centuries, and the result has generally been death or incarceration. “Losing it” is tantamount to a surrender, at best, and a suicide attempt, at worst. It’s especially troubling for [...]
Like my sensational headline? Ask yourself why. Anyway, so I’m going through my Stats and I see that I’m getting pings from a site frequented by foreigners living in Korea. A recent article on this site is about the altercation in the video below: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu_uD11SIDg&feature=related The consensus, as I read through these comments, was that [...]
click here for pt.1 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROn_9302UHg A couple of years earlier Los Angeles, a hotbed of events related to race, was the scene of the above event. An event as divisive as the whole OJ thing. An event which eventually lead to this: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc_SgpyJWRY httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVB9qARy06E httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-LB94Kwlws African-Americans were still reeling from that disgraceful blow to our collective humanity when this OJ thing got underway. There had [...]
Over the course of my seven years here I have modified again and again the extent to which I’ll allow myself to be affected by what’s going on around me. By that I mean the behavior of Japanese people. I’m reminded of a scene from a very funny movie by one of my favorite film writers- Cameron [...]
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