clutter: Jenny Hyun need to take ALL the damn seats.

nerdphobia:

sourcedumal:

Now, the wording of Floyd Mayweather is indeed problematic.

But there is something to be said about how, when someone who ain’t black excels in something that white supremacy has labeled a “black” thing, whiteness will elevate that person to God status. See Elvis, Adele, and Eminem.

It happened when various Asian groups dominated America’s Best Dance Crew, and it’s happening now with Jeremy Lin. Folks are taking this and going “See, them black folks ain’t special cuz we got somebody who is not black taking them to the carpet!” I’m wondering how long it will take until we get the “model minority” stereotype being thrown in our faces. “Black people, not only are they smarter than you, they are better than you with YOUR OWN SPORT!!!!”

All of this comes to the conclusion that anti-blackness is NOT just a black people vs white people thing. Anti-blackness is ingrained in EVERY CULTURE. Even internationally. Her words are not surprising. The hatred of blackness in Asian communities is NOT uncommon.

I’m going to need the Asian community to come and get their folks BIG TIME. That this woman purports this nonsense, and that the Asian community allows this anti-black hatred to go unchecked is ON YOU.

holy fucking shit.

http://imgur.com/a/9K8kz relevant twitter screencaps if you care to read.

petition against j hyun

reading through her tweets, i was shocked at how “extreme” her tweets were about black folks and their status as “beneath human.” after having had a moment to mull over it a little, i thought, that’s a type of luxury, to be able to be shocked when another korean person says shit like this… it’s a luxury to be in a tiny bubble where most of the koreans i interact with are ones that are engaging w/ me in having hard conversations about korean antiblackness. and it’s a luxury to be able to forget that jenny hyun’s blatantly genocidal rants about wanting to imagine a world in which black people don’t exist, period, is what undergirds and interacts with the subtleties and nuances of antiblack racism in the seemingly innocuous “multicultural” discourses about things like… say, the linsanity phenomenon and asian american response to it (which is so much about recuperating “emasculated” asian male masculinity by rendering black bodies and accomplishments irrelevant, as the OP points out).

also (and this is in response to some other posts i’ve seen floating around…), jenny hyun certainly seems unbalanced and “crazy” in the extremity of her tweets (and the erratic nature of her other tweets)… but i don’t think it’s gonna work to disavow her racist bullshit by individualizing her as an anomaly. what makes her an “exceptional” figure isn’t that she has these beliefs, what makes her exceptional is that 1) she said it publicly and 2) she actually recognizes and articulates those beliefs and desires outside of the realm of politically correct, multicultural discourse.

and in the end, i think that’s what feels overwhelming (for me), that “accountability” around korean antiblackness isn’t just about taking on one person, but about entire corporations, institutions, industries, and about family and friends, too. i have more thoughts on this but i’ll just end there. :\

edit:

did anyone else notice her tweets in support of gay marriage and gay people? lol. what the hell. if anything, this also highlights how whitewashed lgbt/queer issues have become…