You know what to do.
When I first heard Scott Fujita was an NFL player, the first thing I had to do was to find out his story. Of course. I wanted to know if he was one of our people.
Fujita, as you may know, is white and was adopted by a Japanese American man and a white woman.
I was a little disappointed to find out Fujita was white. Read the rest of this entry »
Does that mean you won’t get into college?
Asian Americans are represented in greater numbers in the National Marrow Donor Program than the overall population percentage. However, because the numbers are quite small, people of Asian descent have a very low probability of getting a match.
This is eight-year-old Natalie Nakatani. I believe she is of Japanese and Chinese descent. I put her cute picture up so that you could see the face of the person you might help by being a donor.
You’re probably allowed to think this, but you probably shouldn’t say it to the New York Times reporter when you’re being interviewed for your wedding announcement:
As the years passed, the couple rarely talked about marriage or commitment. Last July, as Ms. Yue’s 39th birthday was approaching, Mr. Yee, who wanted to be a father, did a rational analysis.
“I was thinking, ‘She’s getting kind of old,’ ” he said. “I would either have to have children with Lorene immediately or find a new girlfriend and start the whole process all over.”
So you might have seen this twitter picture that’s making the rounds. It is of an NBC cafeteria menu “in honor of black history month” and includes fried chicken, collard greens, black-eyed peas and cornbread.
It’s not like this is all that novel.
Fortunately NBC has a black chef to defend the menu. And what does she have to say?
“I don’t write up the menu… that comes from upstairs. But, I guess at this point it’s safe to assume that we won’t be going with the dog casserole for Asian American Month,” she said.
They know what’s best, after all.
White adoptive parents must realize, he says, “that love is not enough.” Tamu Smith wonders who will teach those children “how to be a black adult.” Black children face issues that white parents have never faced, such as racism. The parents must bring the local black community into the child’s life as both mentors and family friends, they agree. For Haitian children, that should mean enlisting Utah’s Haitian community.
Percentage of black people in Utah: One. *singing* One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do … Of course, maybe that person is your Very Best Friend. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember the police officer who was suspended for sending an e-mail that included the term “banana-eating jungle monkey” to describe an African American man? In fact, he used the term “jungle monkey” four times in his correspondence.
Well, he’s been fired. It took six months because they wanted to conduct a “thorough investigation.”
Well, it looks like those Baptists had adoption plans for the children they illegally snatched out of the country. (Hey, wonder if we should just refer to them as “illegals” from now on?)
And they are being held without air conditioning and electricity. Imagine that.
Story here.
Wut they sed