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By: Why the Death of Kim Jong Il Means More Bad News for the ‘Red Dawn’ Remake | You Offend Me You Offend My Family

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:03:18 +0000

[...] Regular YOMYOMF readers know that we’ve been following the saga of the upcoming remake of the 1980s film Red Dawn since the early days of our blog when Offender Roger had his own not so pleasant experience with the project. [...]

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RED DAWN REDUX: We All Look Same! | You Offend Me You Offend My Family — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:16:54 +0000

[...] the idiotic attitudes of the producers behind this RED DAWN remake? It was one of our very first YOMYOMF blog entries and it caused quite a discussion on the continued racial ignorance that permeates today. If you [...]

By: gonaye1

gonaye1 — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:56:37 +0000

Thanks Roger for your posting.

I just saw ‘Ping Pong Playa’ and laughed a lot… couldn’t figure out why I had only just discovered it via Netflix. Loved the energy of the cast and the all the feel good moments in the film. The family in that film had relationships that were evolving and positive. Had a fun time watching it; checked Wikipedia, Google, and IMDB for the cast backgrounds, and discovered this page as a result.

With regards to working in the Hollywood Scene, wow. I don’t work in film, so I can’t say I’ve experienced similar things, but I am sorry to read about how difficult such daily acting choices are. Sucks. But wow, I just saw ‘Social Network’ – not a very factual film, but fairly grounded, and riveting. Watching it gave me an interesting perspective – there are those who will always have advantages over others in certain circles, no matter where we go and who we are in this life. But will also always be people who love what they do, and let their passions drive them day after day to be the best at their craft, regardless of obstacles around them. Not everyone is given a life with obstacles to they are left with little choice but to overcome… and not everyone rises to the challenge.

Life in Hollywood bites… okay, that fact is now in print. But, you are also charismatic, and talented… that’s a fact as well, with proof to spare. Still further, you also have a sense of integrity that is the foundation of your life choices… another hard fought fact. Okay, then don’t stop sharing your talent, AND continue to keep that integrity. I think you have a realistic view of the limited options that always seem to come with that decision. Very well then – give the best of yourself to the nobler options that remain, and pray about the rest… We can’t always change our situations overnight, but we can certainly control how we face and rise up to meet them…

I wish you luck man, thanks for choosing to make audiences smile

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:41:10 +0000

Wow, that’s pretty aggressive of your agents to keep insisting you for the movie, I applaud what you did as well. I’m an Asian American and it saddens me the American entertainment industry is still not moving forward with more diverse roles for minorities particularly Asians. What will it take for the American entertainment industry to finally accept Asians as equals rather than being marginalized caricatures of stereotypical characters? I remember when I watched Dragon the Bruce Lee story, there was a scene in the movie where Bruce was a young boy being trained in martial arts which is totally not true in real life. Some of my friends who never read about Bruce’s life actually believed he was trained in martial arts as a youngster from the movie. Now don’t get me wrong, I love that movie and it does show Hollywood’s racism very well, and I was especially moved at the end of the film when Bruce and his wife were arguing about racism, but the problem I see with that scene of Bruce being trained as a youngster kind of bothered me because I don’t know how many times I’ve been asked if I new martial arts. When I was at a friend’s wedding, (my friend who is white) there was a white kid that was running around saying Jackie Chan is here. Now I’m flattered he thought I was Jackie Chan, but still, if Jackie Chan is his only image of an Asian person, that says a lot about American society.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:10:21 +0000

Loved reading about your experience when I read it. I applaud what you did. I am not an actress, but I watch a lot of movies and television. As long as there are minority actors willing to portray culturally offensive roles that pander to long held fears and beliefs, Hollywood will keep making these movies. I am black, and racist-stereotyped characters in movies irritate me to no end. When my parents were children the roles available to black actors were mealy mouthed slaves and mammies. Things have changed somewhat, but Hollywood is still content to sell images that it thinks America is comfortable with. It’s very easy to see a black man as a drug dealer or a black woman as a single mother on welfare, so that’s what it sold. Similarly, I think Hollywood finds it easier to place Asians in boxes. Asian males are particularly targeted. Even though we’ve had shows like 21 Jump Street, Flash Forward, and Community which feature Asian-Americans in fabulous roles, Hollywood is still content to make movies portraying Asians (men in particular) as sinister villains or emasculated second fiddles to superheroes. In

By: GuyFromEarth

GuyFromEarth — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:25:43 +0000

Some moron above wrote this:

“We are just 2 decades away from “Majority-Minority America” and right at the beginning of the “Asian Century.”

Seeing as how the EU, Oceania, US and Canada have a combined GDP of $40 trillion and how India has a foreign policy that is pro-Western, I’d say we’ll be living in a Western Century for many centuries to come. But that’s besides the point of your racist rant.

The real point is the first sentence you make where you imply that the relegation of whites to minority status is something we should be looking forward to. Really? Where’s your analytical research? Your scientific evidence? (Sorry, China times or the global times or any of those government-controlled rag of a news station don’t count as research evidence) And let’s say it does happen. Whose going to be the new majority? Blacks? Hispanics? Asians? Or are all the minorities to you one and the same? And let’s so you can pick out an ethnic minority that does become the ethnic majority? Am I supposed to care? Most Blacks, Hispanics and Asians are patriotic; just look say Eric Shinseki, the number of Asians serving in the US military or the number of Asians serving in the current US Administration!

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Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:12:00 +0000

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We Turn 1 Today! | You Offend Me You Offend My Family — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:07:00 +0000

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By: Keeping Confusionism out of our schools and community | You Offend Me You Offend My Family

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:13:51 +0000

[...] understanding of China through language and first-hand experience, as opposed to more appropriate Red Dawn remakes. As far as they are concerned, if it comes from China, it is tainted with [...]

By: ty

ty — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:10:46 +0000

I really don’t get this whole argument over whether liberals or conservative groups are better to asians.

Look, “liberal” hollywood likes to depict asians as morons or nonexistent. Conservatives would like to revoke all of our citizenship.

NONE of them are our friends. Every time there’s an election, I have to ask myself which party I hate less at the moment.