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President Obama In Bed With China’s Hu Jintao

  • February 22, 2010 1:50 pm

Saw this picture over at Racialicious:

It’s a float from a German Carnival parade that depicts President Obama and Chinese leader Hu in bed together. As you can see–Obama is handing his Chinese counterpart a whole wad of cash alluding to the debt the U.S. owes China. What makes this image even more bizarrely racist is not only Hu’s yellow clothing and coolie hat or even the white German folk dressed up as yellow coolies, but that drawing of the John Lennon and Yoko Ono-esque interracial couple on the side of the float. What the fuck is up with that?

Ah, leave it to the Germans, with their long history of racial and cultural sensitivity, to come up with something like this.

A Happy Valentine’s To My Golden Asian Sistas

  • February 13, 2010 2:38 am

The folks behind Atlanta’s MARTA train line came under fire this week for calling their new route to Doraville, with its large Asian American population, the “yellow” line. Bowing to community pressure, it was announced yesterday that the name would be changed to the more acceptable “gold” line.

I was in college during the politically-correct ‘90s when the mantra of “Yellow Power” was commonplace so I don’t necessarily associate “yellow” with its historically negative connotations. But I’ve been arguing for years that we should be referring to ourselves as gold, not yellow. Gold–one of the most valuable things on the planet and the perfect term to describe us. We’re pure gold, baby!

And with that in mind, want to wish a Happy Valentine’s to all our readers but especially to my beautiful golden Asian sistas—whom I consider the most amazing women on earth (with all due apologies to everyone else). And I can’t think of a better way to celebrate our golden ladies than by dedicating Stevie Wonder’s “Golden Lady” to everyone reading this. 

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More of 97

  • December 5, 2009 2:00 am

Friend of the Offenders Angie Suh shares her experience as part of the Class of ’97.

before obama bogarted it, “hope” with our misty-eyed intensity, was what we, the 97′ gang, were about. we all loved film, enough to piss our parents off and go to film school instead of law school.

when our film finally hit the festival circuit in ’97 we met others like us, (we were not alone!). we were all around the same age, broke, and excited to what lay ahead. we traded war stories, bummed cigs, and downed copious amounts of alcohol. keep in mind these were the days of record sales at film fests. we didn’t expect a big payday but did pray to baby jesus for distribution. in our humble hearts seeing our effort play in a “real” theater would justify all the hard work, and if that got us better agents who could get us some paying gigs, that would be friggin’ awesome, dude!
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we did endless q & a’s, photo ops, had rock star moments signing autographs. i was even propositioned quite bluntly, ‘… so you wanna f***?”, and would’ve been offended had the would-be playa not been barely legal and sincere, bless his heart.  Read more...

Class of ’97

  • October 2, 2009 1:48 am

About a month ago I got a call from my good friend Quentin that our little indie film SHOPPING FOR FANGS from back in the days was going to be screening at a film festival as part of its retrospective series along with Rea Tajiri’s STRAWBERRY FIELDS, Michael Aki and Eric Nakamura’s SUNSETS, and Chris Chan Lee’s YELLOW.
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The four films have since been dubbed by some as the “Asian American New Wave of 1997″.

To me it was a point of entrance into something I never thought I’d get a chance to be a part of and since then has played a huge role in shaping my perspective as not only as a filmmaker but as a person. So I thought it would be interesting to get in touch with the gang twelve years later and ask them what they took away from the experience.  Read more...