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bankuei:

zuky:

As a dude of color who has been working since I was 15 and wore a tie through my 20s, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this lecture from adolescent white dudes who have been reading Nietzsche and Rimbaud. They assume I’m an automaton when they see an Asian man in a suit, that I have no thoughts of my own, I live a constricted life of drudgery with no art or emotion or wild abandon, and that they are revolutionary free spirits who have seen through society’s illusions. But as you can see, third-rate TV writers have these same thoughts so you gotta ask who’s actually the pre-programmed cliche. People who say these things can usually only speak English, wear shoes and sweater vests made in China, have never known life without plumbing and electricity, and can’t catch and cook their own breakfast. Whereas the Asian man in a suit just might live with a free-wheeling cosmic consciousness unbounded by the English language and the constrictions of Eurocentrism, does whatever his fluttering human heart desires when you’re not looking, spent the weekend transcending mundane consciousness itself in orgiastic rapture or sitting next to a waterfall or running naked through the forest howling at the moon. Sometimes deep thoughts are shallow, free thinking is cliche, and cliche is freeing.

White people assume because they’ve never questioned their culture, no one else has. 

My father was beaten by the teachers anytime he spoke Chinese - to the point he refused to teach me - is that non-questioning acceptance of a sheep?  The Catholic Church only agreed to help a friend’s family escape genocide on the condition of conversion - is that mindless religious acceptance? 

White violence very often leaves a lot of us with little choices but to blend in as much as possible, to take the most conservative of appearances.  That’s not blindly following, that’s camouflage in the face of violent predators.

Of course, white narcissism means the minute they discover something for themselves, obviously the rest of the world has never thought of it and simply needs a white person to enlighten them.

(Source: bartowski)

(Source: husssel)

lakidaa:

asieybarbie:

Q.U.E.E.N.

SCREAMING.

(Source: pandaslikesunflowers)

wradish:

Formative influences: Michel Ocelot

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

stelmarias:

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Thanks to fellow class bastards who informed me that poet^ Rachel Rostad is also an adoptee, I’ll be taking a closer look into her work.

I remember when Cho Chang’s character had yet to be delineated in the texts and the Harry Potter fandom was whitewashing her left and white, crying “but but but she could be white adopted by an Asian family!!!11”

LOL

Adoption is a White Privilege Part 1 | Part 2

Also:

“Working hand in hand with anticommunist fervor, the Christian evangelical movement spread the assumption that the people of Asia were incapable of taking care of their own. “

And:

“The fact that adoption from Asia dominates the ‘market’, further underscores the Orientalist imagery at work, where, in many Western countries, Asian children are widely perceived as being docile, submissive, clever, hardworking, kind, quiet and undemanding – besides being cute, childlike and petite.”

oh and only when Cho was no longer Harry’s main love interest but relegated to the background crying nonstop over her white ex were folks like “k she’s Asian”