Robert Yasumura is a brilliant comedian whom you should follow. He used to be on the Jimmy Dore show and is one of the smartest comedians I have ever heard. I’m not sure if there is a project he is working on. However, you should follow him on Twitter.
Also, this is Asian Pacific Heritage month. It’s a good time to remind everyone that they are developing a Buckaroo Banzai TV show, and the character is supposed to be Asian. (His father was a Japanese scientist and his mother was Scottish.) Although Peter Weller was amazing as the title character, in the reboot they should hire an Asian actor to play the part. I would love to see Robert Yasumura play Buckaroo Banzai but honestly I would love to see any Asian-American actor take on the part. (BD Wong would be another good choice.)
Sadly, there is a lawsuit over the rights of the property. So we have to to tweet out at Kevin Smith and MGM that they really need to #MakeBuckarooAsianAgain. To help the studio, tweet your choice of who should take over the role.
It’s nice to know who the racists are.
I live in a small New England town. In the 80s it was hollowed out by Reaganism as the factories closed, and those who know the work of Richard Florida know the neighboring town rose to prominence due to the arts. In a liberal state, we live in the more conservative part of it. The conservative Democrat is gerrymandered in, and we have a generation that was left behind thanks to Clinton’s Republican accomplishments.
Now that Trump is in office, those of old Easthampton are emboldened. The racists are coming out to support someone’s racist child who went to high school with what is commonly called “the Confederate Flag.”
Those who have read me know I’m from Texas and grew up in Georgia. In my earliest memories I grew up in the shadow of Stone Mountain. I know a lot about the Civil War. I’m no expert, but I know that what is worn as symbol of the Confederacy was used in lynchings after the Civil War, became the symbol of the KKK, then became the symbol of the Segregationist party and was adopted by states like Georgia to protest desegregation.
So over the 150 year life of the flag it has stood for treason in defense of slavery, lynching, and segregation. I would say easily it’s a symbol of racism and those who want to wear it, wear it proud, just don’t cry when you get called a racist.
And they do cry.
A lot.
Now, we must remind these people of history. Not just the racists who like to wear “Confederate Flags” but those who support policies like the Muslim ban.
Asian Pacific Heritage Month is a good chance to remember this. It is the internment of the Japanese Americans that the Trump administration is using as precedent for their actions.
As conservatives who like to proudly defend symbols of racism like to argue, the American flag has flown over horrors like Indian Reservations. Which is true. It’s also true that Hitler looked at America’s shame and used it as the basis for his concentration camps.
There are lessons to be learned from history. When you ignore them, history can repeat itself. We ignored history and allowed Trump to win and now that he is in power, we have to remind people that we have a Neo-Confederate attorney general who helped craft a racist piece of legislation. We must remind the people of the consequences of allowing the horrors of our past to repeat.
We also remember what the past horrors could have been when we see horrible people wanting to repeat history’s worst ideas.
Yeah, Sessions and Giuliani are sh*tty lawyers too.
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