Email exchange dated December 5th, 2017:
From Ishmael Reed to Frank Chin:
Frank, They're tired of [David Henry] Hwang. He got a bad review in the Times. Send yr play the way you wanted it printed. We have a new design and web master.
Best,
Ishmael
From Frank Chin to Ishmael Reed:
Thanks. I've shouted to the Yellows that I've published out of White tolerance of Yellows. For some reason the Whites refuse to publish a Yellow American telling of Yellow stories from the old country. The Yellows will prove the people know who and what they are, where and what they come from, and what combined to make them identifiable as Yellow folk, by 'telling their child's garden of stories dear to identifiable children.. Sorry to say, the Yellow children's stories I know, are trash to Yellows out for White fame, power, and money.
Let's wait a little longer. One of the new Yellows in politics or the news will spill the truth and start Yellows thinking.....That's my hope. But I know, it's nope. Yellows are me me me and live well and die. Their kids hate themselves and dream the dreams of Ornaments.
The baker that refuses to bake a cake for a gay couple says baking such a cake is against his art. In THE WATER MARGIN- the stars of Heavenly Spiritls are the Professions. And the star of Earthly Fiends is the TRADES. Tradesmen make goods for trade. He's in the business of trade. Artists produce works that serve no use or purpose till the artists identifies or doesn't identify it, or sell it. The artist is taken by the people, and that's what makes an artist an artist. A cake by an professional artist is not food.
A solid gold working replica of the Buntline Special made for Wyatt Earp, custom built in the Colt shop, confiscated from a corrupt and greedy Commie Provincial boss,, and stolen, turns up to having been sold for a ridiculous pile green showoff money money money. Money makes a gun I wouldn't touch and feel icky for having looked at in conspiracy with art and experienced AWE! Wow! Art. There are people who collect photos of corrupt Chinese collection of gold guns on the phone. Art and people's art is squirrel.
The 36 stars of Heavenly Spirits includes a thief - thievery is a profession- all 105 are murderers or accused of murder - but they have standards of moral behavior - The towns around their hideout depend on the 108 for protection from the predatory corrupt Imperial court, and nomadic tribes of the north -
The baker is in business or he isn't. He bakes a cake. Customers buy a cake. A cake is a cake. Made for trade without ego.
FCC
From Ishmael Reed to Frank Chin:
Frank,
The publishers want assimilation from all ethnic writers. Black writers especially the males who've been scapegoated by academic feminism or daughters of patriarchy posing as feminists, have been declared rowdy and so they've imported African writers to scold us and Britishfy our vernacular. Most of them write like Jane Austen because colonial schools in Africa teach 19th century English. Yellow, Brown, Black and Red academics have enough resources to start a Yellow publishing co. Make you the head. Ishmael ps I saw one of their tokens, a Native American at the Library of Congress. She got up and praised the disgusting Saul Bellow, a bigot and an idiot. I wanted to vomit.
Ishmael-
From Frank Chin to Ishmael Reed:
On a ride to panel of Yellows at the U of Chicago, Hutchin’s U of Chicago- I am picked up by a Sri Lanka writer – who’s story about a Sri Lankan girl who has eyes for Blonde Bigpecs and Blue eyes – and wins a prize – I ask her to tell a Sri Lankan children’s story she’s against learning Sri Lanken culture and complains she’s not responsible for a culture that causes her complaints – I want out of the car – Yellows on the make as writers of the now! And future tell me to acknowledge that cultural symbols change over time- like Kingston’s Mulan from an unmarked baby to tattooed at birth by her savage parents – Don’t the Asians of Chicago hear themselves? The head of what amounts to the Yellow playwriting dept turns out to be taught by a Rose Hum Lee, Betty Lee Sung 60’s sociologist. The U of Chicago is a White Racist Indoctrination Center- A handsome Korean short story writer shows his handsome face and gently brags about being the first to write about his affairs with White women. WHAT? IT’S THE 1990’S AND JUST NOW HE LUCKS OUT WITH A WHITE WOMAN? He’s never glimpsed Vegas comic entertainer Johnny Yune? “How do I like White men? I like Whitey women better.” Pat Morita did a Johny Yune impression. Cruel! Mean! And Funny funny.
The most influential Japanese American sociologists believed in White superiority over the Yellows from Shotaro Frank Miyamoto, SOCIAL SOLIDARITY AMONG THE JAPANESE OF SEATTLE (1939) to Harry Kitano , to the White newspapers to 1939 model Mike Masaoka , and the Japanese American Citizen League. ASSIMILATION was an Issei duty, but they keep the contents of their culture. As he wrote his praise of Assimilation, the sounds of the all girls production of CHUSHINGURA rehearsed a block up Sixth Avenue. Miyamoto hates CHUSHININGURA. Hates all Jap stories. Hates with his toes. Hates with his ears. Hates with his words. SOCIOLOGY RULES THE WORLD! Sadly the Japanese America built by the self-hating Yellows loosed by the U of Chicago – prove you’re not a Jap – volunteer for camp - reduced to todays smelly JACL, the Japanese American National Museum going intellectually and monetarily bust and sold to Japan and the White racist Smithsonian Institution. The proof is really strange. George Takei pleads the Jap case as a gay activist, whose husband is snubbed by Capt of Star Trek, on stage at the JAMN.
George Takei is only Jap voice to call Trump out for saying the Muslims should be treated like the Japs in 1941. The only Yellow voice of correction and protest. If my children;s garden of stories reaches book stage, it should take the stage at the beginning of Yellow hope, not the end.
Anyone hear a wolf? WOLF? THE NEWSDOG IS COMING. The Newsdog? THE YEAR OF THE ROOSTER IS ENDING. LOOK AT THE SKY. IT'S DARK AS PITCH AND ONLY 5 O'CLOCK. LET'S HOPE THE YEAR OF THE NEWSDOG TELLS MORE THAT'S TRUE.
FCC
Great blog. r/aznidentity and r/asianmasculinity admire you and appreciate your critical contributions to Asian American activism.
ReplyDeleteYour piece "Racist Love" was a commonly cited gospel amongst our community.
https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/6lx2rv/racist_love_by_frank_chin_and_henry_paul_chan/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AsianMasculinity/comments/59poqu/the_faces_of_asian_american_power/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AsianMasculinity/comments/5e97l8/racist_love_by_frank_chin_and_jeffrey_paul_chan/
Rest assured the torch is carried on.
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