Oof.

Pretty full... family went out to eat tonight in celebration of my little sister's birthday. I should go to bed early... gotta actual job interview tomorrow, so I don't wanna screw that up.

In other random news, one of my favorite columnists, Jerry Large, wrote a interesting piece as a sort of retrospective commentary on the whole Shaq racism/Yao Ming incident. He makes some good points, primarily that often people of color fail to defend each other against racism. Asian Americans spend all their energy on incidents of anti-Asian racism, African Americans spend all their energy on incidents of anti-black racism, etc.

I guess my thought would be that there hasn't been much reciprocation - many Asian Americans, especially Korean Americans, can readily recall how at one time, many African American leaders openly accused/blamed Korean store owners for the damage they had suffered during the Rodney King riots, as if Korean Americans deserved to have their stores looted and trashed by the crowds of predominantly black rioters. Asian Americans are still smarting over that one.

It's a sad but true insight - cross racial cooperation between communities is usually the exception, not the rule. The last example of such that I can recall was the response of many in the Japanese American community to lend aid/sympathy to the Arab American community after the September 11th attacks. Many Japanese Americans, victims of injustice after Pearl Harbor, sought to keep history from repeating itself on Arab Americans. Very few newspapers ran stories about it.

Anyways... it's late. Time to stop procrastinating...
posted by G at 2:18 AM   |

in?scrip?tion (n-skrip-shun)n.
1. The act or an instance of inscribing.
2. Something, such as the wording on a coin, medal, monument, or seal, that is inscribed.
3. A short, signed message in a book or on a photograph given as a gift.
4. The usually informal dedication of an artistic work.
5. Jeremiah 31:33