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[18 Mighty Mountain Warriors - Illegal Immigrants]
[The Pinky Show - "How to Solve Illegal Immigration" (HELLA funny!)]
Happy Thangstaken to all my fellow illegal immigrants (whilst not really knowing how to wrap my head around the continuing genocide of indigenous folks, the fact that enslaved African heritage folks didn’t first arrive here of their own free will, and that the U.S. continues to profit from these facts today =T).
Giving Thanks,
Masashi
I was born and raised in a “safer” part of the “City of Pride and Purpose,” and still managed to see friends and fellow residents murdered, incarcerated, and become victims of police brutality, physical and/or sexual assault (as you see above). My father/hero was the Officer of Public Communications for the Richmond Unified School District (which changed it’s name to the West Contra Costa County Schools after going bankrupt) for more than 20 years and today I am glad he wasn’t the one on camera having to answer for this heartbreaking, violent crime perpetuated in a morally bankrupt society. Although in the long run, it really doesn’t mean a fucking thing, I send my love and prayers to the 15-year-old girl who was brutally raped, beaten and humiliated for 2 hours by up to 10 different young men. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve have GOT to think up a way to get out of my Public Policy seminar from 4-7pm, because Wednesday, November 4th, SFSU will be providing FREE screenings of ridculously talented filmmakers, Tadashi Nakamura’s “A Song for Ourselves” (about revolutionary Japanese American artist, activist, & educator Chris Iijima) & Eric Tandoc’s “Sounds of a New Hope” (about O.G. LA/BAY Hip-Hopper, educator, cultural worker, activist, Kiwi Illaphonte). Know about MassMovementTV!
Hoping I won’t be stuck in class,
C
p.s. If you are a student in Dr. Ueunten’s AAS335: Japanese American Personality course, you can get extra credit for attending the screening and writing about these films! Holler at me in class for details.
Some commentary regarding my previous post…
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Model Minority Report:
Eye-Witness to a Life Sentence
Peter had the meanest cross-over dribble I had ever seen in elementary school. It was similar to the way then Golden State Warrior, Tim Hardaway would dribble once through his leg to his left hand to get you off balance, and explode back to the right hand with such lightning quickness that his defender didn’t stand a chance – 2 points. I met Peter in the 5th grade and recall thinking that he didn’t “act like an Asian kid.” He would often disobey our teacher and would go from telling me I was his best friend one day, to telling me the next that he was going to “beat (my) ass and stab (me) with his brother’s bowie knife.” He often missed school, so when I didn’t see him on the basketball court that particular morning I didn’t think much of it. It wasn’t until I our teacher informed us that he had been killed that I realized I would never witness his crossover again. Because Peter didn’t fit into the rigid mold afforded to his racial group as an Asian American, he was silenced, made invisible, and sentenced to die in the street before reaching puberty. Read the rest of this entry »
[NY Times - Being Multiracial in America]
Wrote this for Raza580: Educational Equity…
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A Severed Nation’s Miseducation in Miscegenation:
Mixed Race Identity Formation in American Schools
If you are to walk into most high schools during their lunch period in the racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse San Francisco Bay Area today, you would in all probability find children socializing in groups of many different sizes. If you were to examine closer, the makeup of these groups, you might find the majority of them to be made up of adolescents of racially and/or socio-economically similar circumstances. Upon even further examination, it is safe to say that many of these groups would host an individual or two, whose parents were not of the same racial background. As young people grow older and begin to internalize notions of racialization and race identity, mixed race/heritage individuals will be faced with choosing a “side,” or possibly not having anybody side with them at all. Read the rest of this entry »
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[iLL-Literacy feat. Passion - The HereNow]
According to the relativity of simultaneity, it is impossible to say in an absolute sense whether two things can happen at the same time if they are separated by space. However, the band of funky fermions known as iLL-Literacy insists that everything and everyone share a single moment – that we are all logged into a grand social network known as the HereNow. It is the central hub where our avatar souls bend time in hopes to save the day, and where our common date with Destiny is to avoid becoming dated. As coy fishes in the flow of time are poisoned with mercury, and Pluto is denied planetarianship, it seems that our moments (like all other natural resources) are plundered not with consideration for the Now, but fear of the Future. By way of syllogism, the question then becomes: when frozen in time, can thou keepest it cool? Indeed, where the electron is negative, iLL-Literacy’s spin is positive. And positively charged thou shalt be with another single from their debut project iB4the1.1. Fusing their talents with the vocals of the photonic phenom known as Jeremy “Passion” Manongdo, the iLLs beckon thine to come hither and join “The HereNow”–a P/G-Funktified ode to being present. Lean in for the moment.
This is the second single from the iLL boyz of iLL-Literacy off their forthcoming authoring of authentic awe-inspiring audio artistic awesomeness. The first chapter to their album iB4the1.1 comes out Saturday, November 17 (tomorrow!) and promises to bang, slap, knock, and funk your earbongos the funk up to the fullest extreme.
Soulclap!
C
Following the recent devastation caused by Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) on the Philippine Islands, Members of the Bay Area’s talented creative community are lending their time & talents to aid the people of the Philippines through these difficult times. We encourage you to join us in solidarity and donate what you can, Whether it be monetary, food, clothing or medicine. Every little bit helps and it is instrumental that we look out for those less fortunate than us.
“Rebuild”
Friday October 16th @ 111 Minna Gallery
5pm-9:30pm
(in the Zappa/Stage Room)*Donating 100% of the proceeds & collections to those in need
*Sponsored by:
111 Minna Gallery
Manilatown Heritage Foundation
Filipino Community Center, Nomi
SF CHRP
DiAnne Tana Bueno
Randall Rufino of Blufizz
James Donato
Reignforest Collective*Uplifting DJ sets from:
Donnell De Leon (Dose)
Paul Abadilla (Choco)
Allan Perez (Skelator)
Cedric Nodado (Cedication.Crimes)
Noel Bacani (Xariusound)Lyrical performance by
Colin Masashi Ehara & Jeimil Belamide (Broken Halos)*Let’s do our part in helping a humble nation rebuild & endure the storm
It’s been a while now since Jei and I performed (and I’ve been going through a lot of internal debates about my own place in Hip-Hop’s practice), but we couldn’t say ‘no’ to something like this.
Please come through after work! ALL (100%!!!) of the proceeds go to help our brothers and sisters on the other side of the globe.
In solidarity,
C
[CYPHER IN GREEN]
Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade is the Professor of my Raza Studies 580: Educational Equity course and has been nothing short of awe inspiring in the process of my education. He is a masterful educator, capable of speaking to any person of any age. I appreciate his no bullsh*t approach to everything he addresses and the ways he consistently is thinking about the current and future babies. In the short time I’ve come to know him, he’s assisted me in a lot of ways regarding my personal priorities for the future. He has worked in the Oakland Public Schools for almost 20 years and his works Note to Educators: Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete, & Gangstas’, Wankstas, & Ridas: Defining, Developing & Supporting Effective Teachers in Public Schools have been published in the Harvard Educational Review and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
I am blessed to know some truly incredible people…
The homie Patrick “DJ P.Sani” San Juan works for AACE TS in San Francisco.
AACE TS is a program that identifies, selects and assists low-income youth ages 11 and older that have the potential to be the first generation in their family to attend college. We support middle school and high school students to continue their education and encourage high school students and adults to enroll in a 4-year institution or postsecondary program.
Celebrate with us the AACE-TS 30th Anniversary fundraiser event @ Poleng Lounge (1751 Fulton St, SF), Thursday, August 27th, 6-10 pm
There will be:
* Performances: Mighty Joe and Broken Halos (UCSC alumni) and DJs spinnin’ all night:
- j fish
- p.sani
- jocson
* Free food, Light appetizers will be served!
–>Grilled edamame, wings, etc.
A percentage of the bar tab will go directly to AACE TS.
Donations are also highly encouraged.
Come through and support good people working to close the OPPORTUNITY gap in Public Education!
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My homie Xandra “lachicaboom” Ibarra is an amazing/brilliant artist, scholar, and pedagogue and her organization, Kaleidoscope is doing some truly revolutionary and groundbreaking expression.
Kaleidoscope’s mission is to entertain and cast light on the knowledge, actions, and transformations that pertain to people of color performance and race-positive sexuality. The broad range of performances from drag to burlesque, song to aerial art, promises to be erotic, sexy and witty! Join us on September 26, 2009 at 8pm at the Brava Theater on 2781 24th Street in San Francisco as we represent and transform burlesque as it is and was. Kaleidoscope entertains, inspires, and arouses. Enjoy the nation’s best in burlesque and buy your tickets now at www.brownpapertickets.com.
Xandra writes:
For the past two years, Kaleidoscope has brought together women, men and trans performers of color from Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson and Atlanta. Kaleidoscope is an annual national people of color cabaret and festival. It is the first of its kind in burlesque specifically because it is dedicated to showcasing performers of color.
Kaleidoscope’s mission is to entertain and cast light on the knowledge, actions, and transformations that pertain to people of color performance and race-positive sexuality. It is
about the politics of a people of color performance movement, about how people of color define and shape our liberation in an art form that has traditionally used our bodies as props and our images for profit. This show is a platform for us to reclaim our images and our sexualities, our goal is to politcize and enrich the neo-burlesque movement.
In the past, Kaleidoscope has been sponsored by Communities Against Rape and Abuse, INCITE!, Northwest Network for LGBT Survivors of Abuse, Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and EntreHermanos. This year we are honored to be fiscally sponsored by Communities United Against Violence. With the support of these organizations Kaleidoscope has flourished and become a venue for discussions that complicate desire and use burlesque as a tool to embrace the liberating possibilities of sexuality.
Now to be perfectly honest, when I used to think of burlesque, I imagined Grandpa Simpson headed to the old saloon in Shelbyville to watch skinny white women show him their knickers.
This isn’t the first time my homie X has flipped the script on me/the world and made us all think deeper and differently about power, self-determined liberation, and what honest expression in art can look like.
On September 26, 2009, be in the Sucker Free City and check out some mind-blowingness of incredible proportions HERE.
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Un Mundo Mejor Es Posible,
C
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Thanks to Professor Wei Ming Dariotis of San Francisco State University’s Asian American Studies Program, I was given the opportunity to put this mix(ed)tape together specifically for her Asian American Studies 550: Asian Americans of Mixed Heritage course. Words can’t do justice to how much of an honor this is.
To the students of AAS 550 &anyone else who happens to download it), I’m truly humbled & I hope this mix of songs and Dr. Dariotis’ groundbreaking class affects you in some way, shape, or form, however it may be.
Tracklist:
1. Senbei – Mix(ed)tape Intro2. Senbei – Misunderstood (remix)
3. Senbei & Dynamic Souls – Paper Bullets
4. Little Dragon & Senbei – Constant Surprises (remix)
5. Senbei & Dynamic Souls – Kindred
6. Senbei feat. Slavename – Mixed President
7. Senbei feat. Jeimil & Drizzletron – Social Tool
8. Lalin St. Juste feat. Senbei – Our Way
9. Senbei & Dynamic Souls – Things Fall Apart
10. Senbei – Masterpiece (prod. Akiyoshi Ehara)
In deep gratiude,
Colin Masashi “Senbei” Ehara
