Klarinet Archive - Posting 000402.txt from 2001/03

From: Shouryunus Sarcasticii <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Performance Announcement!
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:00:05 -0500

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 CassildaYhtill@-----.com wrote:

> Well I'm sure that I *do* know why I find stuff like this offensive. It is
> racist. "Shouryunus Sarcasticii", maybe you didn't mean anything by it, but
> think, how would you like it if I sarcastically wrote something in
> exaggerated fake-Japanese dialect that made Japanese American people sound
> ignorant?

My friends do it all the time - friends of various backgrounds. So do I.
I laugh. So do they. Of course, as my original statement had no
sarcastic intent, but your scenario does, I'm not quite sure it would
carry the same effect.

> Maybe you are from some part of the country where there aren't too
> many black people, so just a suggestion, please don't talk like that when you
> travel to Washington, D.C.

I practically live on a college campus. One of my bosses is black (or
African-American, if you prefer). I work and perform and attend class
with other members of said community, as well as various other Asians,
Europeans and Arabians (um, I guess Middle Easterners? I don't know.)

> The city is something like 75% black and dialect
> jokes won't go over too well. Both Lacy and "Shouryunus", blackface comedy
> died about fifty years ago (thank God), so maybe it's time to get a new act.

I don't have an act - other than that of being able to talk up my playing
more than I should. The sentence "I is po," is a part of MY dialect. If
it offends you, or anyone else, for that matter, then I apologize. And I
will leave it at that.

Anything else anyone has to say to me should be said privately. My apolgy
has been public, and that should be more than enough to douse this
steaming can of SPAM that obviously has become a powder keg.

J. Shouryu Nohe - Non-Japanese Guy but is Nae Offended...
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SarCaSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"Never put passion before principle. Even when win, you lose."
-Miyagi-san, KKpt.II

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