[DayTony25945]

Sorry for not being clear. In the heat of the moment I guess I lost my focus. What I was responding to was what I felt was Kristina’s hidden agenda. Why should a nation with virtually zero Africans have African-featured characters in its cartoons? Just to please the minority African population of one of the countries to which the cartoons are exported? What’s her point? Do African-American children suffer low self-esteem because they don’t see their image in the media from other countries? I can’t imagine this is what she’s really suggesting, so her question of ‘Why do the Japanese try to act white?’ seems to be used here in the same way we use the terms ‘Oreo’ and ‘Uncle Tom’: to discredit independent achievement and create peer pressure to remain ‘down’ (‘down’ meaning if you’re not throwing craps outside a liquor store, you’re betraying the black race). Why do I think that’s what she’s doing? Black-against-Asian racism is predicated not merely on dirty looks from behind the counter, but mainly on the 1970s notion that Asians are only able to excel where blacks have failed because they ‘try to act white,’ and the definition of ‘acting white’ generally means reading books, investing in one’s future and other things like that (when stripped of its liberationalist guise). So in short, that’s what her ‘number’ is: more of this black-against-Asian garbage. Anybody with more than a fourth-grade education in history knows that Japan’s success as a people and a nation is their own and has nothing to do with Europe. No intelligent person would wonder why the cultures of two light-skinned races would share similar aesthetic ideals. No intelligent person would wonder why the largest First World nation in its sphere doesn’t consider itself a ‘minority’ with obligations toward other ‘minorities.’ And I don’t think I have to reiterate the part about there being hardly any Africans in Japan, even as tourists. Kristina is just trying, either because of knee-jerk ignorance or conscious race-baiting, to redirect the scrutiny of the Africans on this board away from themselves and the real problems facing Africa, and onto yet another red herring.

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Name : DayTony25945, Gender : M, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Humanist, Age : 32, City : St. Louis, State : MO, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,