Open Thread

bsm, i got the ‘you are not really black’ as well…from white and black people. double urgh.

“bhs, in my high school, i was considered one of the ‘good blacks’. white friends used to tell me their parents didn’t like black people but i was ok cause i ‘wasn’t like them.’ urgh.”

MM – I got “you are not really black, you are like us.”

wow, so lamb, did YOU live there? One of the BEST, truly AWESOME books about Americans and Japan is written by the husband of Susan Chira, “Japan, in the land of the brokenhearted”. His name is Shapiro, I forget..John I think, but he writes about some American’s fascination with Japan, things Japanese, then a feeling of rejection, fury at finding that things aren’t what they seem, that they will never be fully accepted, EVER and then some kind of acceptance. He writes this through the experiences of 4 americans – a black businessman, an American baseball player, and two women (can’t remember what they did) and interspersed their experiences with the writings of Lofcadio Hearn, an Irish born writer who settled in Ohio and went to Japan buying the whole deal, getting pissed off and then sorting it all out. It was great.

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^^^Oh wait, I forgot, the New Yorker is too f*cking pretentious for you to read.

oh. then it wasnt the same article i read. i think i read about it the free press paper or one of the other moonface papers..

*rob*