MUTUAL OPPRESSION BREEDS LOVE

My wife and I had a good experience one evening. You might not find it as such at first when you hear it, but when you realize what we realized, you will have learned a good thing today.

"Prejudice, as a weapon to shield against fear, is not only painful to the people you perpetrate it on, but hazardous to your own health. Purge it from your body, from your life."

We had this idiot of a white chick come by our place one day. She comes in, and frankly it was a bit of my fault that I missed her call. But nevertheless she came in smiling, nice and everything seemed cool at first. Then my wife came into the room and said "hi" - but the stupid chick ignored her hello and with her entering the room right in front of her face. She then almost did the same thing (make that she did it then tried to correct it as the actual behavior). We were appalled and shocked at her raicst insidious arrogance which she no doubt doesn't know or care exists. This is the kind of person one hates. But it also breeds love between us, and makes me realize how much asian and black peole have in common. Unfortunately, but fortunately, it came at the barrel of a gun.

Mutual oppression breeds love between us. Take advantage of it.

Star Trek was A Pioneer in All This...

this classicly cool scene from TOS featuring Lt. Sulu, of the alternative universe where the key to better living is promotion-by-assassination, and Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols, you were soooooo fyyyine back then!~) is trying to play it to both sides of the sway to get their way to win. ooohh how hott they are here! link up below or click the yellow-laced black rectangle above for one sexy scene and kiss ~ ahhhh passion.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CJdFppsHeo - click on the rectangle box above.

Btw, a little somethin' more about the power of Uhura:

Nichelle Nichols planned to leave Star Trek in 1967, after its first season, but Martin Luther King, Jr. persuaded her to stay, stating that she was a role model for the black community.^[3] Whoopi Goldberg, who later played Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation, identified the Uhura character as a role model for her.^[3]

In "Plato's Stepchildren", Uhura is involved in an early TV portrayal of an interracial kiss. This is frequently misremembered as "first televised portrayal of an interracial kiss on United States television" even though it took place after Sammy Davis, Jr. and Nancy Sinatra had openly kissed on the variety program Movin' With Nancy in December 1967.

Uhura/Nichelle Nichols is spoofed as Tawny Madison/Gwen Di Marco in Galaxy Quest. Leicester City manager Ian Holloway has also paid homage to the character, stating "I had a massive crush on her when I was little - I think we all did. She was built to last!"^[4]

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to fly the space shuttle, has also cited Uhura as an enormous influence. [1]

And a little mo' about Sulu:

Sulu is a Island Province in the Philippinos Archepelagos, surrounded by the Sulu Sea. As Gene Roddenberry allegedly once put it, the name of the sea was the right one to represent his view of a united and peaceful Asia in the future, because "it touched all sides". It is more of a Filipion word, as Hikaru (Japanese male name for 2nd son) Sulu was actually of Japanese-Filipino-American descent (born in San Francisc0). George Takei, who played Sulu, also was one of the first Californians to get married under their "same-sex" marriage laws of 2008.

One thing for sure: these 22nd century hotties were used to the flow by then!

Perhaps they had alreafy begun to figure it out in the 60s...

a new journey

i think it would be good if we created a blog about another growing phenomenom: increasing relationships between asian and black people. and not just asian female -black male. although it appears it too has been growing lately, there is also a growing trend of black female - asian male as well as black women - white male couples as of late. i think it would be good to cover this.

hopefully we get a bit of a dialogue from those in such relationships, whether good/bad/difficult/easy/whatever you find as trends, issues or habits we share or experience. i hope to get an open dialogue on what draws you and what you struggle with (if that's one way of describing it) and why, most probably, you'll want to come back for more.

i'll add more as we begin....