This is a bedfellow column by Tiger JK (Seo Jung Kwon), a Korean American rapper, best accepted as one of the founding associates of hip hop accumulation Drunken Tiger. He is aswell the architect and above CEO of Jungle Entertainment. He is affiliated to Yoon Mirae (Tasha) who is of alloyed ancestry (Korean / African American).
Let’s Give the Kids Added Info and Opportunity to Apprentice about Ancestral Prejudice
As I apprehend the replies and comments to the account adventure about UFC‘s Ben Henderson (Lightweight champion), I was agape and afflicted by absolutely a few ancestral slurs. He was the son of a Korean-American mother and an African-American father. He capital to arise aback to Korea to feel that he’s a allotment of the Korean collective.
Such instances of ancestral bigotry are not isolated… the comments to the account commodity about a TV ball ‘Sebakwi’(‘Three Wheels’), assuming a apology of blackfaces, aswell arise prejudices.
“Why should we apologize? Don’t they accomplish fun of Asians in America, too?“, some kids asked while others would say, “They were alone comics dressed up as a black-faced, thick-lipped animation characters assuming in a ball like SNL.”
I absolutely accept that the acts portrayed were not meant to carefully asperse nor alienate atramentous humans , and such banana scenes appeared on abounding added comedic sketches on both arrangement and cable TV.
However, I anticipate it’s time we should let the kids apprentice on what’s the appropriate affair to do, and what’s amiss and what not to do. I anticipate we should try to accommodate them with abundant advice and opportunities to change their minds apropos ancestral prejudices.
Racial bigotry and prejudices acclimated to abide in any country throughout the world. But now the apple has ashen into a baby all-around community. Korea is currently adequate absorption about the apple with the K-Pop abnormality forth with added animal resources.
If we apprentice a little added about the history of Africans, we could accept why it’s not appropriate to present them as the banana objects. Because it contains a lot of pain, appalling revolution, and struggles to achieve their animal dignity.
As you may able-bodied know, African bullwork is a history that’s absolutely adverse and contempo in the admirable arrangement of things. Not too continued ago in American history, they couldn’t even allotment the aforementioned restaurants, buses, and even rest-rooms with added races! They could not even arise in Hollywood films, they were alone advised as comedic altar derided by white people.
Racial bigotry exists in the sports world, too, but abundant abuse follows such actions. Sony Music aswell had to pay a top price, for absolution annal by their artisan that independent ancestral prejudice. ESPN had to anon abuse their agent for the banderole with a ancestral accusation about American-Asian basketball awareness Jeremy Lin. The amiss best of the words and accomplishments can put a huge damper on things. The words that drew an abuse all over the apple was, “Chink in the armor.”
Korea hosts abounding K-pop concerts and music accolade shows overseas. We charge added abutment of the humans of the world, not alone from music admirers but aswell in abounding added fields as well.
A cine administrator for the acknowledged “Tower Heist” was banned from the Academy Awards for his animadversion acute adjoin homosexuals. I achievement our journalists put added accomplishment to acquaint the adolescent kids to apprentice added about the breeze of the humans of the world, and about ancestral adequation and justice.
Thank you for alert to my apprehensive suggestion.
Truly yours,
Tiger JK
