“What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this–this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.”

Eew. This is what Barbara Bush said about the Hurricane Katrina refugees at the Astrodome in Houston. The worst thing is she actually went and visited them. Haven’t they suffered enough? I think it is just disgusting. Her attitude is like, ‘Poverty is adorable! Look at all these cute, cute, cute poor people! They should be thankful for Katrina because if it weren’t for the flood they wouldn’t be able to enjoy this nice, nice stadium! They’re much better off aren’t they? I heart the lower class!’

It just shows that clearly she has no understanding of what happened, if she actually thinks that being poor somehow makes the disaster less of one, because now instead of a small, cramped and overcrowded apartment, they get a huge, cramped and overcrowded stadium. What is she saying? ‘Oh they didn’t have anything to lose, so what does it matter if they lost it all?’ If this is what they think of the poor, then what do they think of the rest of America? What is thought about the soldiers who were killed in Iraq? ‘Oh they were so young, they were barely alive anyway. No one notices they’re gone anyway! It’s working well for them!’

I never had any soft feelings for Barbara Bush. She looks like a Grandma and a Grandpa at the same time, which would normally make me like her, but for some reason, her politics make her Quaker Oats appearance unappealing. She’s like hot breakfast cereal sprinkled with broken glass and fake compassion. She is like a multigrain muffin with cranberries and thumbtacks. She is the former first lady and the current worst lady. And she is not working well for me.

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The rest of the country is waking up to something that many of us have known for a long time. The Bush Administration does not care about poor people or black people. It is evident in their flagrant disregard for these communities ravaged by the hurricane. The delayed response for emergency services clearly shows how little our government cares, and how little our government is willing to do for us, unless they are trying to cover up for their own faulty decision-making. I am glad they have finally fucked it up so bad they can’t begin to recover from it no matter how many times Bush flies over the Gulf Coast, but it unfortunately had to impact those who least deserved it. The poor were not responsible for Bush being in office, but they are the ones who had to pay the ultimate price for it. The media is trying to cover for themselves too. One of the photos linked to in the previous post has been taken down. The racism in our nation has flooded our collective consciousness, and the horrors that lie underneath these waters are far more grisly than anything that will be found in Katrina’s wake.

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Badlands is an unfortunate yet appropriate name for a gay bar in San Francisco that is being cited for racial discrimination. It is alleged that the owner required African American patrons to show multiple forms of i.d. before being allowed entry, as well as having a dress code and employment policies that were equally prejudiced. The Board of Supervisors have voted unanimously to take action against Les Natali, the owner of Badlands and it is likely that the bar’s liquor license will be revoked.

Even in politically aware San Francisco, racism exists, which is sad and sucky, because it is one of those places people flock to in order to escape hatred, prejudice, ignorance. But what bugs me so much isn’t just that it happened in San Francisco, but that it is a gay establishment with a racist policy. If anyone can understand exclusion, it should be the gay community. With the Bush Administration using the platform of denying gay and lesbian couples the right to equal status in marriage as a way to win the election, homosexuality is constantly under fire. How does anyone survive it and continue to fight for change? If you do manage to survive it, how do you then manage to lack empathy for all other oppressed minorities?

Whenever I encounter racism within the gay community, I am immediately embarrassed, and I want to erase the incident from my mind as soon as possible. I don’t want to think about it, I don’t want to make it into an anecdote, I want to forget that I saw it and absorb it whole into my psyche as if I could prevent it from spreading further into the world. We have enough to deal with battling the ignorance that still threatens our community and allows the government to treat us like second class citizens without having to examine the grave faultiness that exists within our own ranks.

When I see homophobia expressed within other communities, ones I believe should know better, I am equally embarrassed and inclined to suck the incident inside myself - breathe in the suffering and breathe out compassion, but it’s hard. A conservative African American minister was quoted at a recent anti-gay marriage rally, warning the gay community not to confuse gay marriage with civil rights. “Don’t make your sin about our skin!” That sickens me, because I honor the struggle of African Americans in this country. I know their freedom was hard won and the bitterness and pain it took to win it is too fresh in our collective memory to be taken lightly. Yet to compare it to the struggle of gay and lesbian Americans to share in equal rights and seek acceptance in this country does not in any way lessen the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement. Looking to our history and forming bonds between those who have overcome oppression and those who face it head on now is important and needed if we wish to evolve into a nation of understanding.

Don’t we want to be a good land, as opposed to a bad one?

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Imagine being Anna May Wong at the premiere of your film, “Thief of Baghdad,” title apropos to these times, as a Chinese American at Graumann’s Chinese Theatre, then in its Chinarama phase, chock-a-block with faux orientalism, a chinkee apocalypse in plastic and red paper. And you, surrounded by an extraction of your own culture, are not allowed to put your hands in the wet cement to commemorate your contribution. So piquant in the way that you actually really own all the imagery around you, or you did at one point, and it was taken from you to adorn the theatre, make it mystical, magical. Remember, you are a star of the film. People lined up for blocks to see just a glimpse of you. But your permanent prints will not be there for the future to see that you were part of the golden age of Hollywood, even though they borrowed the golden hues of your skin without asking. This honor was reserved for the white actors. In addition, you could be desired by all the white men on screen with you, and the ones leering from their crimson empress red velvet seats, but you couldn’t marry one, because it was against the law. Imagine.

Anna May Wong left Hollywood in 1927, and sailed for Europe, where she made many films, and had fans all over the Continent. Following in the lively dancehall footsteps of Josephine Baker, she went for the European’s wild taste for the exotic. Germany was host to a cultural renaissance, where the Weimar Republic was in full decadent splendor. They absolutely went insane for anything that was different or unique. Anna May Wong was happy there, as she felt more acceptable. She was quoted as saying that Europe had “acceptance for people of color,” and that is the first time I believe that phrase ever had been used. In fact, the opposite was true. Intolerance and racism was so rampant, even flagrant. IMAGINE.

I admire the savvy and complete self confidence of Josephine Baker, whose talent and charisma is iconic and revered. Anna May Wong came home for good after a brief tour of duty, but Josephine Baker remained largely in Paris after several disastrous attempts to return to the US and establish a career - completely unacceptable during the segregationist phase. She got bad reviews for being black!!!!! After being refused service at the Stork Club, she began a very open and public fight with pro-segregationist columnist Walter Winchell which the times, and The Times, dictated that she could not win. She went back to the City of Lights that had put her name in lights, and stayed a tremendous star all over Europe for her entire life. Upon her death, in 1975, the French declared it a national day of mourning, honoring her with a 21-gun salute, making her the first American woman buried in France with military honors. 20,000 mourners arrived to grieve and the funeral blocked the streets. The NAACP named May 20th, Josephine Baker Day.

Even though she has no official day, I adore Anna May Wong, and I like to think that I look a bit like her. I do, not the way they say Asians “all look alike.” We have the same kind of head, like you know when you see people around and you realize they have the same shape dome you do and you kind of either love them or hate them right off the bat, depending on the relationship you have with yourself. I did a reading of a play, a biographical melodrama, which was absolutely true to life yet somewhat underplayed for emotion, for intensity of feeling is generally kept internal in most Asian cultures. I was the star, or I read the part of the star. The playwright was a friend of mine, Elizabeth Wong, one of the writers of my ill-fated television show, “All American Girl.” She had written it just for me and hoped to gain attention for the work by putting together a group of actors and reading it at the building across the street from the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, not so far from the Hill Street in Chinatown where the real Anna May Wong had grown up.

One of the actors, David Dukes, was a beautiful man, in his fifties. He’s one of the guys that you see in movies or TV forever; you never know the names of these people, but you also expect to see them. Your eye always makes room for them, actors like him, because you know his face, his angle, his motivation, because he is incredibly familiar and that familiarity is comforting. This is an everyday nonplussed kind of acceptance that we have for white heterosexual male archetypes. They have every reason to be there, they populate the world, and the world exists solely for them. No, they are not to blame individually for this, but that is the bare truth of the matter. It is one of those things that we, as non-white heterosexual male archetypes, accept and must compromise all up and down and around for anytime we experience any type of media since the Age of Antiquity. No big deal.

Anyway, David Dukes played my lover. We talked, in between scenes, about his chinchilla farm, which he was very proud of, and the production of Bent he had been in. I marveled at the fact that though he was not particularly famous, I knew every plane and surface on his face from memory, most recently from the ambitious Marilyn Monroe biopic with Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd, one playing Marilyn, the other playing Norma Jean. The best part about this film is when Marilyn is joined by Norma Jean on the therapist’s couch, and they cry together as only a Gemini can. David played Arthur Miller, and he was too handsome to do so, but of course, he made a fine made-for-the-screen Miller. David died unexpectedly soon after this reading.

What is strange to me is that in biopics, they always cast someone finer looking than the original, as if the reality of life must be tidied up for the camera’s gaze. Nowhere is this more poignant and outrageous than in Anna May Wong’s own life. She knew that there was a good film brewing in the Hollywood Hell’s Kitchen. Pearl S. Buck’s “The Good Earth” had been optioned, and there was a huge part, the indisputable lead in fact, for a sympathetic Asian character. It was for O-lan, a mother, who was sacred and not profane. This was miles away and far better than the Dragon’s Daughter parts Anna May Wong had grown so used to. When she played these parts she would always rise above them, so that you did cheer for her, as she would poison everyone. Her evil-ese was mind altering, so much so that she became good.

The historical accounts differ on the real feelings Anna May Wong had about this role. Some say that she knew she wouldn’t get it, that there was no way that the Hollywood that she had known so well would possibly accept her, the most famous and talented Asian American star, as the real deal, O-lan, the most endearing Asian portrayal in Western literature to date. Others state a different story, that she rallied and begged and came one day to the studio in a rickshaw dressed up in the O-lan costume - like Sean Young’s Catwoman stunt, or Madonna’s open plea for Alan Parker to cast her as Evita in her video, “Take A Bow.”

The play I worked on centered around this particular point in Anna May Wong’s life. In the third act, when it is revealed that the part of O-lan went to GERMAN actress Luise Rainer, who went on to win an Oscar, for such amazing acting happening underneath all that makeup (not unlike Charlize Theron in the recent, magnificent “Monster”). It is the final nail in the coffin for Anna May Wong’s ill fated, ill timed career. For the rest of her life, or rather, her life within the lines of the play, Anna May Wong would be bitterly discussing this to all the people around her (not many, by her own choice) before dying alone and angry in 1961. The truth is somewhere in between. Anna May Wong had hoped, against hope that she could win this part, but she knew that it wasn’t possible, because she was in fact, actually Asian.

Imagine. Knowing that you were unable to play the part because you were the right race at the wrong time. When Paul Muni was cast as the male lead - that is when the hope died. She knew that since the male and female leads were to be lovers, in fact, married, that there wasn’t a chance in Hollywood hell that she would win the role. Miscegenation was a misdemeanor, even perhaps a felony, punished to the full extent of the law. Yellowface was not. Yellowface was the safe route. Yellowface was the politically correct answer. Imagine.

Even the cinematographer, the illustrious James Wong Howe, was taken out of the running when the crew was being assembled, even though he had tremendous experience shooting all over the world, and was perfect for the job, BEHIND the camera. We read the play, ironically, retelling this story of insane racism that was considered acceptable, in fact morally responsible behavior at the time the events took place, against the backdrop of the drama of my own television nightmare, assumptions abounding about how things were so much better today, and thanking our joy luck club stars that we were no longer living in this world we were bringing to the stage, that things were so much better - now- when particularly short sighted Korean activists were taking me to task for not hiring actual Korean actors to play the parts of my family members. They boycotted, wrote articles, mobilized en masse against me because we had not a Korean writer on staff. We had Asian American actors, really fine ones, in all the roles, and Asian American writers in the writer’s room, but the fact that they were not specifically Korean, and the fact that we were charged with Yellowface for this and many other factors, got the show taken off the air. IMAGINE.

The play never did get produced, although it was a spectacular work, and hopefully now, it might get some attention. Anna May Wong lives on, in the minds of film scholars and fans of cinema’s odd transitional time between the silent films and the talkies. She is a tremendous gay icon, worshipped by drag queens for her tragedy and her icily androgynous beauty. She is not well respected by Asian American activist academics, if they know of her at all, for she falls into the Charlie Chan category, and represents a period of Asian American complicity (!) that is for some, best forgotten.

Imagine. John Lennon would never have written the song without Yoko Ono.

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Why am I political? Because society’s consistent and constant disregard and lack of respect for minorities, even the title ‘minority,’ when in many areas of the country we are in fact the majority, is too much to bear silently. Their insistence at our invisibility, whether it is as subtle as non-inclusion, or as loud as violent hate crimes, is contagious, and can make me hide from myself.

I see evidence of my own racist brainwashing when exploring the political landscape of current foreign policy. I have not been able to make myself think or talk about the situation in North Korea. My avoidance stems from fear that my American-ness, hard won and fought for on a daily basis, might somehow be diminished because of my ethnic association with the perceived ‘enemy’. My family is Korean, and we are defensive about this allegiance. There is great suspicion when referring to North Koreans, as if we must distance ourselves from them as much as possible so as not to disrupt democracy.

Going out of my way to prove that I am an American does not support the idea of being American. I should not have to lessen my interest in what might transpire between North Korea and the US in order to re-establish the image that I have created for myself as a patriot. Also, I want to refute the assumption that being of Korean descent might lend me a particular expertise when expounding upon the political climate there. It is a childish denial, where I stamp my feet and claim ignorance, only because the color of my skin says I am supposed to know. Trying to banish my ties with North Korea doesn’t reinforce stereotypes that I currently do my best to fight, rather it creates new ones. I become the “One who refuses to see the self.” I add to the culture of invisibility by becoming complicit with it.

I am diminished by not seeming to notice that North Korea is there even though my family is from there, even though many of my family still live there, even though my ancestors were literally torn apart by civil war that divided the country while the people were still one. My association is painfully close and avoidance is the only way I know how to retain my American identity. It is ridiculous and embarrassing. I hate feeling this way, because it forces me to see how far racism has affected me. It has gotten into the way that I think, the way I live, the way I feel about myself, the way that I fear that I am being perceived. Not only that, it has gone entirely unnoticed, until the moment that I step outside myself and acknowledge the truth. I am a racist, but it has gone deep underground and warped itself and returned to me utterly unrecognizable.

Prejudice and bigotry rot me from within, and the strains of these viruses are hearty and hard to kill. When I was younger, I would rudely ignore the bright eyed Asian American kids who would stand in the courtyard and hand out sunny yellow flyers, advertising afterschool meetings for the new Asian Student Union. It bothered me that the paper that they used was so undeniably yellow, and that they would single me out of a crowd to give me one, as if the yellowness of my skin was a secret homing device for the flyer. It felt like they were targeting me, because if anyone needed it, I did. I could have used Asian unity more than the other Asian kids who rushed through the same courtyard with me. I think they sensed that, and tried harder to push the paper into my hand. Fortunately, my racist tendencies did not keep me from having great relationships with other Asian kids in my class. We just didn’t have a ‘union.’ There was no need to speak of politics or any desire to change the status quo. If we did, it was entirely unintentional, and part of the daily ritual of being a teen.

My insistence at being ‘apolitical’, as if that were a possibility, did not end when I was young, and could blame it on youthful ignorance. About a decade ago, I was asked to appear on a comedy special which featured political comedians. I declined, stating quite plainly that I was not a political comedian, therefore I didn’t belong on the lineup. I was replaced, and I was relieved. I look back and I think about how wrong I was in my own self assessment. Even though I may not have deft impressions of befuddled politicians in my retinue, that did not make me an ‘apolitical’ entertainer. My very presence as an Asian American woman talking about race and homosexuality was a political statement. I had long regarded the world of political humor as the province of white men that I immediately disqualified myself. I know better now, and it is immensely pleasing when I am referred to as a political comedian, because it feels true. It feels strong.

However, I belie my own strength when I act like North Korea isn’t there, that it doesn’t affect me, that I am exempt from having to comment on it. The problem is that the conflict with North Korea unearths an unbearable conflict within myself. It brings to the forefront my own self hatred, supported by a lifetime of suppression by the world in which I live. Self hatred is a devastatingly difficult habit to break, especially when we are mostly unaware of its presence.

I try everyday to challenge myself further and I believe in doing this, I slay the monster bit by bit. This is why being political is an essential part of my life. In the end, it is all that I have.

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Michelle Malkin, the author of the controversial book, In Defense of Internment, speaks from University of California at Berkeley, fiercely trying to defend her position against the loud and angry demonstration outside protesting her appearance. Malkin’s views are incredibly unpopular, especially on such a liberal campus. Her take on the racial politics of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is quite outrageous, especially for an Asian American. Even though she has a white name, it doesn’t make her so.

She is living proof that bigotry has gone multicultural. She claims that the comparison of internment to the current racial profiling of Arabs and Arab Americans is unfair and a foolhardy tool of the left, who are gambling with the safety of America in order to remain politically correct. Advocating racism in order to secure our borders is part of life during a war, and Malkin is here to remind us again and again how we are at war.

She ponders why affirmative action is perceived as a good thing and scrutinizing the Arab names on airline passenger lists is a bad thing. She is infuriated that the left keep on playing the internment card, seriously compromising homeland security with their insistence on those pesky civil rights.

Malkin tries to speak louder in to the microphone to drown out the chants of the protesters. The American flag taped up behind her falls down. This gets a smattering of ironic applause among the confused and scared looking audience. I don’t blame them for being scared. I am scared for her. The protesters keep breaking into the hall at intervals, interrupting Malkin’s train of thought. She hunkers down and keeps going, tough and diligent. She is a lot like me I think, an “Anti-Cho.” They chant “SHAME!!!SHAME!!!SHAME!!!” but she refuses to be shamed by their taunts.

I feel kind of proud, that racial politics have progressed to the point where we can have a young Asian American woman who doesn’t have to live within the constraints of a minority identity, which presumes liberal bias just by nature of the fact that if you are oppressed by the majority, you would want to place yourself against the majority. Malkin’s position is actually a kind of genius, and a new way to look at our role in American politics. We don’t have to take on the mantle of distressed minority. We can be as prejudiced as whites!

Race really doesn’t matter. Malkin is both a revelation and revolution. It is fairly obvious that she is being courted by conservatives, fussed over and groomed as the all new Manchurian Candidate. She fits their need to diversify like an orthopedic shoe. It is a match made in GOP hell. The unholy union works to everyone’s advantage. The right wing gets a brand new bag, a Skipper to Ann Coulter’s Barbie. Not only that, she’s Asian, so that liberals will have a harder time calling her a racist even though she has completely racist views. Malkin gets a lot of publicity and talk time for her book, which will generate sales on both sides. The right will buy it to support their own, the left will buy it to see what all the screaming is about. Boy, there is a lot of screaming. Not since Salman Rushdie released The Satanic Verses have people been so pissed off at an author. I would love to issue a fatwah against her, but I am not sure how to go about it.

The protests are counterproductive, because the right wing loves it when the left gets angry. The off camera shouting makes us look like savages, and that is the exact image that they love to show again and again. Malkin bravely pushes forward. She seems like an intelligent and interesting young woman, albeit misguided, and I feel protective towards her. I hope the right treat her well, and don’t throw her away once the fury has died down. Perhaps she will write a follow up book about how the Holocaust didn’t happen.

Her story reminds me of the documentary by Errol Morris, Mr. Death. Mr. Death is a nerdy electric chair specialist who boasted an expertise on all things related to execution. He was hired by a white supremacist organization to go to Germany and disprove the existence of concentration camps. Dr. Death had never had attention in his life. He was this dorky academic who had spent most of his life under the radar. Suddenly, he was thrust into the spotlight. Never mind it was the gaze of racist, hateful, ridiculous white supremacists, The accolades were no less seductive. It is a tragic tale of a man deprived of recognition to the point where he will attempt to revise history in order to receive some kind of acknowledgement. Dr. Death becomes the authority of Holocaust revisionism. He serves the white supremacist agenda by backing up their hokey theory and he gains redemption for his years as a who cares nobody. Who could blame Malkin for wanting to follow in those footsteps?

The terrible thing about invisibility is the lengths that we will go to in order to be seen. If spouting racist propaganda and being a tool for the conservatives are worth the right to exist in the monochromatic world of right wing political pandering then I applaud Malkin’s effort. She inflames the need to uphold the ideals of equality and fairness, and she puts a new face on hate. I’d be happy to argue with someone who looks a bit like me for a change.

African Americans have Clarence Thomas and Condoleeza Rice. There’s a new race traitor on the block, and her name’s Michelle!

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Why does Bill Cosby have to cause a rift between the younger generation of African Americans and the older generation when we need unity more than ever?

I understand this in a small way, in the rejection of my entrance into ‘popular’ culture by older Koreans, who didn’t accept the fact that I was not playing classical music, didn’t have dignity as much as a chip on my shoulder, was not fragile, ladylike, quiet, nice – or anything that my culture would have wanted for a representative. Unapologetically myself, it has taken decades to even receive a small pittance of acceptance, a reluctant nod thrown my way, as if to say – “at least you survived.”

I am the 50 Cent of my age, a straight up thug from the streets with a long roster of beefs with older Korean journalists and community leaders, who shot at me not with bullets, but disapproving looks and disparaging press. It has been to my advantage, in that it made me impervious to criticism, and I am flak-jacketed and indestructible.

Why do we ravage our own fledgling minority culture’s efforts to grow into ourselves, when we have to fight the greater society as a whole? This leaves us in a double handicap situation, and who can expect to win, but the strongest and the hardest?

Bill Cosby’s anger and dismissal of the Hip Hop Generation’s use of language and poetic wordplay is hypocritical. If you watch even one episode of the animated series “Fat Albert,” you will find it is practically the Rosetta Stone of modern day ebonics. It was not that long ago that unintelligible character with a mollusk looking hat covering most of his head was spouting a “Whabba Beebe Habba Fabba Abba!”

Just because Cosby truly was a revolutionary in his own way, creating the American identity of the upper middle class Black family, that doesn’t mean he now has the responsibility or the street cred to speak for the state of the race in such a disrespectful and disdainful manner. His elder statesmanship gives him much respectability, but it also gives him a measure of the Man, and makes him easy to dismiss. If he had the Jello Pudding Pop compassion for kids that he seemed to have in the past, perhaps his message would be softened, like the pudding itself will melt in the mouth, pleasingly, and not bitter and chalky.

Perhaps some would say I have no right to comment on Black culture, because I am not Black myself. I argue that, because even though my skin color is different, I am a card carrying member of the Hip Hop Generation. It is my music, the beat that has been booming throughout the soundtrack of the epic movie that is my life. Of course other music has played a major part in my dramas, but hip hop never failed to be there for the intense, vibrato highs and rock bottom lows. Its vernacular speaks to the isolation I have always felt. Public Enemy lit a political fire in me, that burns brightly to this day. It is American music, which has bounced back from all over the world, with the whirly beats of Dizzie Rascal to the dancehall manic FED EX man speedy rhymes of Sean Paul. The continual change and diversity within the genre shows the pure power of revolution, how once unheard voices can resound loudly across miles of ocean and misunderstanding.

Bill Cosby can say what he likes, say what he means, but why does he have to say it so mean?

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During a recent question and answer session at a university, I was asked by a bright and enthusiastic Asian American student, “The political stuff was great, but what about the Asian jokes?” This was met with a gleeful response, to which I had no real solid reply. It kind of took me aback, because the only answer I could come up with was that me being an Asian American went without saying, and therefore, by nature of who I am, everything I do is Asian American. I am the bearer of my perspective and that is all. I assume that my ethnic identity is not separate from my words or my message. Perhaps that is taking too much of societal acceptance of minority opinions for granted. I am not sure.

I hope that people see me as having a right to debate issues that are not exclusive to Asian Americans, without having to be cast as a ‘banana’ (yellow exterior, white interior). Do we think when listening to Peter Jennings that he is actively avoiding his Canadian roots? Is Jay Leno ever held up as a spokesperson for his own ethnic background, of which I am actually unaware? Why am I unaware? Perhaps because I have never heard him talk about it. I assume that he is of European descent, since he is white, and therefore, kind of a social ‘neutral,’ deftly able to comment on all of culture and make fun of it by virtue of his own socially sanctioned ‘neutrality.’

Because I am not white, am I not qualified to comment on the state of American politics? Can I not engage in hands on activism for hot button issues like same sex marriage and the death penalty? I am not trying to be hostile, but the operative word there is ‘trying.’ We live in trying times, and as a compassionate person, with a fierce warrior spirit and a true desire to change the world, I find that there are many causes that I wish to fight for, and many enemies to conquer, for to right wrongs is my true mission in life. Is my race a determining factor in whether or not my war cry will be heard?

As an Asian American, I have felt firsthand the effects of racism, and therefore civil rights are vitally important to me, never wanting to have to let those experiences I endured repeat themselves in the generations to come. I take what I have learned from the great leaders of the civil rights movement, as well as assorted historical figures, suffragettes, pop and religious icons, artists and philosophers. I want to combine my knowledge with my own suffering, piecing together a kind of quilt, so that we all might benefit from the warmth of understanding. My heroes were not exclusively Asian, or Asian American, but from everywhere, as far back as recorded history would allow us to see.

The people I choose to admire are not necessarily popular, nor are they terribly well known, but they each have something to offer me, a lesson, an idea, an inspiration, a cautionary tale. I remember them in hopes that someone in the future might remember me, and possibly be helped by this, a message in a bottle, which I’d say is a fairly great ambition. This is how I would like to be remembered. Perhaps then, I will transcend the ethnic face I was born with, and my words will be as powerful as I wish they could be, but frankly, I would rather have that now, while I am still here.

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Normally I don’t get in another country’s business, but I have to say something about what happened in Australia. I had erroneously made a comment in a blog about there being no people of color in Oz, unless you count the sunburned. It was glib and it wasn’t true. I was actually talking about the audience at a particular hip hop show, where the majority of the attendees were white, but I am fully aware that 400,000 Aboriginal people make up a sizeable portion of the country, and that they suffer in much the same way as our native Americans and many black and minority communities.

There is abject poverty, overt racism, police brutality - which is the main cause of the business I am getting up in their antipodean face for. A teenage Aborigine boy named Thomas Hickey was impaled on a fence after allegedly being chased by police. His death sparked riots in the neighborhood known as “The Block,” an area well known for its crime and large Aboriginal community who can not afford to live in the fairly serene and sublimely sunny Sydney that we all see in the travel brochures. It is not Bondi Beach, it is Panic Beach, not so different from the L.A. riots in the early ’90s.

Rodney King has many faces. Race is a problem no matter what country you’re in, and when it comes to the thin blue line, they always come off a little sketchy. I am not saying that anything anyone did was wrong. I wasn’t there. But, people do not set cars on fire and pummel shit for no reason. People do not set cars on fire and pummel shit for no reason. There is a war brewing in the inner cities of the capitols of the world and it isn’t because “Friends” is going off the air. It is because they didn’t have any friends of color. Just acquaintances. I would like to have a series called, “I Only Know Him Enough To Say Hi” to take over the enviable time slot, and have it all be people that you never saw on the show, Australian Aboriginals from around the way, Maori, who were once warriors, but find that they are no longer able to fight - at least not with the mythical Lords of the Rings, from New Zealand, Lakota teenagers who love vintage video games like Ms. Pacman, Filipino kids eating lumpia in Daly City, Mexican Americans kicking back in Highland Park who are really into Morrisey, Korean Americans from the secret Koreatown in La Crescenta (that’s me).

I am terribly saddened by the death of the little boy. Thomas Hickey was only seventeen. I don’t care where you live, that is a baby boy to his mother and to me. I don’t know him, but I know him, because he is me. He is all of us who have had to live under the guise of media generated and manufactured invisibility broadcast back to us via television, which purports to be society’s mirror, when it is worse than a cracked crystal ball. It shows us nothing of our future.

I have high hopes for our world and the state of race relations and inclusion. But how long can you look in the mirror and never see yourself before you go mad? It is the fate of doomed vampires, not human beings. The less we see our own reflection, the more blood that will be spilled.

Thomas Hickey, wherever you are now, bless you little darling. Peace to you. Love to you. Hold fast to the knowledge that your family and your community really love you. They will fight for your unjust and untimely death, possibly to their own deaths and that this will spark change in the place where you lived and all over the globe. It is a shot heard around the world. It is a wake up call to all those who need to be seen, who need to see themselves to know that they exist, so that they can get up and fight if they have to. Once were warriors, will always be warriors.

If only we didn’t have to create change by chaos, but sometimes that is just the way it is. The universe supposedly started with The Big Bang. Let’s hope this explosion and the inevitable fallout after will have the same effect.

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Bush done did it again. What is this fool’s problem? He obviously is wrongheaded on purpose, as if his advisors like Karl “Killa, but not from Manila” Rove are trying to make him look like an even bigger idiot so that they will not have to endure another term with his dumb ass. On the day after he laid a wreath on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s grave, he installs ‘Judge’ Charles Pickering, legendary segregationist and anti- abortionist, to the Fifth Circuit of Appeals, which handles Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, the states which were affected most by the words of King and the brave and burgeoning community that were starting to know their strength and power in the wake of the death of Emmett Till and Rosa Parks’ blatant refusal to move to the back of the bus. Why bother going to visit the great Dr. King, if you are gonna turn around and try to unravel the civil rights movement all these years after his revolutionary ministry brought people of color a voice in America? How dare you Curious George? You are one monkey head used Lipton tea bag. This to me is sickening lunacy, hypocrisy at its finest, and bad muthafuckin’ timing, yo. The only thing he could have done worse was barf, like when his daddy went to Japan.

This support of the ‘Judge’ Pickering is meant to be a slap in the face of the Democrats who have long been accused of being anti-South. The problem is that the minorities living in the Fifth Circuit suffer so Bush can say “You are not the boss of me.” As if we had a shortage of young African-American males in the prison system.

Pickerin’ was picketin’ for segregation - and now he a JUDGE!!!!! I am not trying to say that the South is a bad place, no no no - not at all. Thank God not everyone there thinks like this or has the personal history of racism and sexism that this ‘judge’ has. What I have to say is that the stereotype of the redneck Southerner is getting on my fucking nerves. I spend a lot of time in these states, and I enjoy good times in New Orleans, Nashville, Houston - as I have found many like minded individuals. Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Compassion, civil rights and equality are not arguing points between Republicans and Democrats. Neither is good sense. Southern democrats exist, yes they do, in fantastic numbers, and they have more at stake in this election year, and frankly, far much more to lose. Some Southern states having higher populations of minorities with a greater disparity in terms of class and caste and cost of living than the billionaires Bush refuses to leave behind.

In many of the small Southern towns, I make my way through decaying, dilapidated buildings and new, pristine palaces which exist on the same block. Malnutrition and Moet, WIC and Waterford can manage to mingle and we somehow in the last four years are starting to find it acceptable that we are living in a Third World country. It is happening in the North, the West, the East, all of everywhere, but I guess I see it more in the South, since I spent more time there last year than anywhere else. Unimaginable wealth and disgusting displays of conspicuous consumption throw the hideous poverty into grim relief, and those who live in it, on either side of that particular hypothetical type of Mason-Dixon line, feel it, are about to throw down. The beef between the North and the South is as dead as the East Coast West Coast rapper battles, and it is taking people an awfully long time to realize this, partially because of Dumya’s fool actions and the kind of blind faith that we once had in our government, that some are clinging to, because they are so afraid that the world is going to hell in a carry on and all they have left is the vague hope that Bush isn’t as dumb as he actually is. Either that or they are too stupid and proud to admit they were wrong.

Republicans are denouncing Bush, not their conservatism, because of his Duh-plomacy, his Duh- mocracy, his Duh-molition of our nation. Worst of all he managed to Duh-file the grave of the greatest man this country has ever known.

Take Monday off, it is an order, not a request, not a suggestion. Do it out of respect and remembrance that once among us, there was a man called Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who changed the world with the power of his voice and his insistence that no one keep their silence. He is no longer here to speak, but he still speaks through many who treasure the freedom we are supposed to have, the idea that we are all human, all each and every one of us important, that the color of one’s skin should have nothing to do with the capacity to do anything, and that we are all the same, if not on the outside, deep within, in the quiet silence of our psyche, in the dark night of the soul. He, who once had a dream, must be honored and called out to for guidance, and you know I do not observe holidays, but for this one, I go all out. We must keep his dream alive, for if we do not, it will become a nightmare. It has already started to.

I wonder if the ‘Judge’ will try to keep people of color from using his bathroom.

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Margaret received these letters immediately following this post and this post from the right wing website, Free Republic. We originally posted the emails with all the names and return addresses intact, but eventually had to remove them because we became aware they were being contacted by many of Margaret’s outraged fans.

Free Republic, which a Klan/Neo-Nazi site called “packed full of our target audience,” counts among its posters, Jerry Corsi (co-author of Unfit For Command) and Harry W. MacDougald, aka Buckhead (the first person to “notice” that the CBS documents obtained by Dan Rather may have been forged). These people are organized racist, misogynist, homophobic bigots, and as they begin to get acknowledged by the mainstream press for defending this administration, they are becoming even more empowered.

Here’s another fun story about how one of these “freepers” tried to get Margaret fired.

Here are the letters:

—– Original Message —–
From: Nero
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:56 AM
Subject: Your cool

GOOK CUNT, You fat ass slant eyed WHORE. YOU SUCK LIBERAL COCK

—– Original Message —–
From: M346r4
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 9:17 AM
Subject: Hi

Dear Margaret,
I just wanted to let you know how much I admire you! For someone with your background to achieve the level of success you have is incredible. It seems like only yesterday that Chinese scientists successfully cross-breeded a pot-belly pig and a Chink whore. 9 months later you were born!
Your’e disgustingly fat pig face with the yellow skin and and slant eyes has been with us ever since! And not to mention your horrid attempt at humor. Wow!! What a gift you’ve been to humanity!

Keep up the terrible work!

Long-time Fan

—– Original Message —–
From: “mikey cobain”
To: Subject: YOU

It's really pathetic when a disgusting cunt like you
tries to be funny. YOU are NOT funny. Maybe to some
mentally disturbed serial killer you are funny, but
that's about it. I have a great idea, why don't you
move to china and try your comedy there. Maybe they
will appreciate it more. If not, maybe they will cut
your fucking head off. We can only hope.

----- Original Message -----
From: john zaroian
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:11 PM
Subject: Moby

Hey dig this BUSH WILL WIN....Whatsammatter fat ass, cant take the heat. Eat some dog like your freinds back home. Its what you look like anyway you scumbag Chowface..

----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Pearlstone
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:59 PM
Subject: You disgusting "pseudo-American"

Shut your disgusting face, you loser. You have some nerve coming to America, denouncing us, and making your fortune.

Go home you freakin Asian scum.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hank
To: Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 11:04 AM
Subject: Your recent anti american diatribe

Never heard of you before seeing the item on the
Drudge Report. Where did you learn such foul
language. Went to your website and soon discovered
that you are queer, too. Get a life, will you.

Concerned Citizen

----- Original Message -----
From: Tina
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:32 PM
Subject: I support you!

I find you to be a disgusting, misguided PIG! You need to seek medical help because you have what the psychiatric profession calls a MENTAL DISORDER! You hate filled moron! You must have had some sweet childhood to act out of so much HATE and INTOLERANCE! How do you sleep at night filled with such ire and hatred? I feel sorry for your ignorance, you poor thing. Do us Americans and favour and check your sad self into a mental hospital! And take homoby with you!

----- Original Message -----
From: Danlor
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:30 PM
Subject: fat bitch

right wingers unite to fight liberal fat bitches like you!!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:28 PM

Ms. Cho,

I will make you a deal, if you book a flight to North Korea, stand on the Tarmac of the airport and say the same things about North Korea's president that you said about Mr. Bush, and live to make the return trip back to the back to the U.S., not only will I pay your plane ticket both ways, I will also buy every CD/DVD that you have ever released and any that you release in the future. I will also become one of your biggest fans.

Why would I make such an offer? Because you are all mouth and you know that you could never get away with what you are able to get away with in the U.S., thanks to the rights that even ungracious overweight pigs like you enjoy here in the U.S., rights and freedoms that came at the hands of early Americans who fought and died to that end.

If Korea was such a great place, why didn't your parents or great grandparents stay there instead of immigrating to the U.S.?

You probably think of yourself as some talented entertainer but doesn't it bother you to think that the only reason you have gained a measurable amount of celebrity status is because you attract only left-wing thinking liberals who are anti-American, anti-family, porno-producing perverts? It takes a lot of talent to use the "f" word as creatively as you do.

Here is a suggestion for your "show," wear a tent shaped piece of Plexiglas on your head and bill yourself as the "BIG FAT ASSED HUMAN CHINESE BUFFET."

Your fellow American,

Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick
To: Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:04 PM
Subject: Questions 3

Was it after the TV show got cancelled and you couldn't afford to
finish the liposuction?
Sleeping with Michael Moore's wife?
Or shall we just blame your Mom as that seems an easy out for you?

What pushed you over the edge?

ND

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wingates"
To: Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 4:52 AM
Subject: not at all hate mail

...and your routine at the HateFest was not at all funny. It was offensive.
Radical Liberals are such a minority in this country; why don't you switch
sides? You'd make more money.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd "
To: Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:01 PM
Subject: Open your eyes

It never fails to amaze me that the very people who should appreciate an American government who has given them the opportunities they have are the first ones to try tearing it down. You don't deserve to live in the USA you ungrateful fat pig. You belong in NORTH Korea. They are real hungry there and that wonderful Korean government would most likely feed an oinker like you to a family of 10 for about 6 months.

You are not good enough to be the puss in a boil on George Bush's ass, you scabbed up scumbag. Go back to Korea! Decent people don't want you here any more. I used to think you were funny. After you bashed MY president I see you as just another left-wing puke. I wanna vomit every time I see your fat putrid ugly face on TV. And just for the record, I was not influenced by the Drudge Report. I was influenced by seeing and hearing your degrading performance at your last "bash Bush" gathering with all your left-wing commie brethren. I wish you all the worst luck in the world. You don't deserve success in America, you're too busy tearing it down.

Why don't you move to mainland China? Try bashing their premier and see how much longer you breath. You ungrateful hog.
Your truly,
Paul
New Mexico

----- Original Message -----
From: MarchRain
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 3:42 PM
Subject: you

Get out of my country. Evil comes in many forms, to make us laugh, to play funny good guy, to have us join the group mind. You are doomed. No peace will come to you in this lifetime.

----- Original Message -----
From: Zibrasit
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:54 PM
Subject: If you are funny, I am Queen Elizabeth

Using the f--- word every second does not make you funny or humorous; it makes you pathetic. Had you been funny your TV show would not have been canceled in a minute.
Shut up, lose weight and take a bath.

Michelle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert "
To: Subject: Heil Cho

Congratulations to Drudge for bringing your delightful remarks to us
all. Kim Jong Il loves you, babe! Isn't it funny all those starving
Koreans in the North? No, not just funny but f**king funny?
Drudge had the perfect picture of your grinning fat face. Do you eat
tree bark like your countrymen? I remember you once made some cheap
joke about Pearl Harbor and I thought then that you, while not an idiot,
could become one if you f**king tried. I see, you'reeeeeee back.
Speaking of humor, "Up the chimney" as 'ol Hitler used to say about
another funny episode in history. Hitler once commented to Moby, "who
loves you, baby! Come visit one of my camps and take a shower." Tee
hee, tee hee. Donchajustluvit seeing all those starving Koreans and
Jews? Their expressions are sooooo funny. Just like deers caught in the
headlights. Truly a Kodak moment.
It's funny how some fat round faces don't know the difference between
evil and a democratically elected head-of- state, head-of-government,
head of party and decent all American like Bush. It's even more funny
how some admire those pulled out of spider holes and those who feed tree
bark to their people. All the best in your funny career and in your
trivializing of evil. As you can see from my love letter to you, I,
too, love trivializing evil. You are sooooooo funny or as 'ol Hitler
liked to say: Vu R soooooo f**king Vunny. Regards to Moby whoever
he/she/it is. Drudge is the man!!! And, yes, it's true after seeing
your picture: s**t happens.
So long, I've got to MoveOn.org. Heil Cho, Heil Soros, Heil all you
naughtly little vermin out there in left field especially, you, Margie,
with the little fat round face and the swatiska on your butte. And
remember if you want to repent, vote Republican and vote often.
Chop/chop bambino.

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron J
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:56 AM
Subject: Gleetings Ms. Cho

You glate woman comeedian to expoze imperialist Bush as capitalist warmonga! Wud like velly mush to vite you to tanksagibing dinna my house nex ya. I hav plan buttaball Doberman…..wit hushapuppy (reel puppy)…...velly tasty….you like! You come, OK?

Kim Jong Il

----- Original Message -----
From: Harry
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:31 PM
Subject: WHY

WHY ARE YOU SO UGLY?

----- Original Message -----
From: peter
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:14 AM
Subject: I think your great

I find it hilarious that you get so offended when someone attacks you. You liberals are so hypocritical, you use f-work laced rant when talking about George Bush and you cry like the fat pig you are when someone does the same to you. I wish nothing but the worse for you and will be praying that you develop cancer or AIDS.

God Bless

----- Original Message -----
From: charles
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:21 AM
Subject: hey

GO BACK TO ASIA CUNT.

WE DON'T NEED TO LISTEN TO YOUR SLANTTY RANTS.

FUCKING CUNTS LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK

GO FUCK YOURSELF.

----- Original Message -----
From:
To:

YOU FAT CHINK BITCH!! HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THIS PRESIDENT. YOU AND YOUR SEXUALLY DEVIATE FRIENDS COULDN'T CLEAN HIS SHOES. I ESPECIALLY LIKE YOUR WELL INFORMED ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT'S POLICIES, YEA, "BUSH SUCKS" IS A REAL ARGUMENT WINNER. YOUR IGNORANCE AND VULGARITY ARE ALMOST COMPATIBLE TO YOUR LAME ACTING ABILITIES. YOU AND MOBY DESERVE ONE ANOTHER.

----- Original Message -----
From: SirRosis
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:59 AM
Subject: Stop whining

1/23/04

I'm not offended by your comments about Bush.The man has been a dreadful failure and this is coming from a conservative.That said,YOU insult anybody that doesn't agree with your agenda and then when you get "insulting" e-mails you cry about it.Grow up,you brought this on yourself.This may shock you,but you are a NOBODY.You're an obese,Oriental(I know you must hate that term) lesbian-THAT is your claim to fame.A hack "comedianne" is what you are and you are not funny.I could care less if you're a muff-diving,Sapphic sister -you're a dyke-and in your milieu that's accepted and lauded,but the rest of us find you noisome and rebarbative.300LBS,Oriental and lesbian-a great combination for San Fran,NYC,Boston and L.A. ,but the rest of the country are repulsed by you.

Sir Rosis
P.S. ARE MY SHIRTS READY? and I have the number 22 with chow mein.Thanks

----- Original Message -----
From: CUVELLO
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 12:39 AM
Subject: funny

YOU UGLY PIECE OF SHIT!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave"
To: Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:33 PM
Subject: Blow me!

Fat Cunt Chinese women. Bush is the best!

----- Original Message -----
From: "titus
To: Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:44 PM
Subject: You're Pathetic!

You fat filthy pig! You think because you "call yourself" a comedian,
you can spew hate against others, yet call them haters when they return fire. You're pathetic, no wonder you tried to kill yourself!

Yes, I'm a conservative and I don't mind stepping down into the filthy
gutter where you and your ilk (i.e., pervert liberals) reside, if that's where I have to go to communicate with you idiots.

Please, by all means, you and your friends keep talking, so everybody on the other side politically and in the middle who lean right when they hear you speak, will know what you're all about.

To be honest, I was shocked to hear you're actually earning a living, even if it only keeps you housed in a van down by the river. I actually
thought you had off'ed yourself by now, after having to listen to your own dribble!

Copy this to Moby. I want to hear and see more of him too. You both are great for the cause.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed "
To: Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:08 AM
Subject: Kudos

Way to go you fat slope whore. Go back to Korea you obese pig.

----- Original Message -----
From: LAUPE
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 6:58 AM
Subject: Yobo seo

Since you have so many vulgar things to say about America, I suggest you move to North Korea from whence your ancestors come, you filthy, ugly person. You wouldn't be shooting your ugly mouth off over there would you carpet muncher.

----- Original Message -----
From: daniel
To: karen
Cc: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 6:43 AM
Subject: wang chung

Please forward to Margaret

Dear chung lee,
Please go back where you came from. We don't need anymore people like you in this country. I hope you have aids and pass it to all your liberal commie homo friends. Your a slut and a lard ass. Please take Rosie O'donnel back home with u, I'm sure yall will have a lot of fun together eating sushi and having dildo fights. Stupid ninja

Aids Cures Gays

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 6:09 AM
Subject: bush bashing

margaret cho is a slanted eye bitch...i dont buy her stuff...i dont watch her on tv...if she doesnt like america and our president then tell her to go the hell back to asia...she doesnt have problem with taking money from america...so margaret....go back to asia you slanted eye slut....

----- Original Message -----
From: dagoofyfoot
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:49 AM
Subject: Damn You're Ugly!

If you're as funny as you are ugly you could be headed for a great career. I suggest you lay off the Chow Mien for a while, you're starting to look like 200 lbs of crap in a 100 lb. sack.

As you probably know now, I read that crap you spew out of your pie-hole on the Drudge Report, and then went to your web site. It's good that you're a comedienne, cause you sure couldn't make it with those looks as an actress.

If you don't make it, you would probably do pretty good at haunting houses for a living. With a face like that you'd be sure to drive the spooks right out! It's clear that you're just as ugly on the inside as you are on the outside...

by the way, what you said, is it supposed to be funny?.......you suck!

Not a fan
Tony C.

----- Original Message -----
From: MMARCUS
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:29 AM
Subject: email

go home u slant fat bitch

----- Original Message -----
From: Pablo
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:37 AM

You are a disgusting fat gook. Go back to China where you belong.

----- Original Message -----
From: Exmutt
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 4:21 AM
Subject: (no subject)

I"d like 2 eggrolls, a small hot & sour, and some pork fried rice...THEN, get the fuck out of my country and take that little faggot moby with you...

try that little bullshit gag of yours in north korea..they'll be searching for your remains...

----- Original Message -----
From: chris
To: margaret
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:01 PM
Subject: hi

Fuck you you oriental cunt. you are not even an american. You are soooo stupid. Go fuck yourself and go back to Asia you slanted eye whore.

----- Original Message -----
From: chris
To: margaret
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 7:42 PM
Subject: Sorry

I'm sorry Margaret. Please accept my apology. I was wrong. We differ on opinion when it comes to politics. What I e-mailed you was wrong. It was hate filled and that is not the kind of person I am. Please forgive me.
Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave
To: margaret
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:19 PM
Subject: Comments about Bush

Given your recent comments about President Bush at the MoveOn.org awards, you obviously have no problems with personal attacks.
Therefore I thought I'd take a moment to let you know that most people think you are a no talent, fat, washed up a-hole.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom"
To: Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:33 PM

which way does your pussy slant, baby? this is important, since you are
certainly quite unfunny.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:30 AM
Subject: your parents must be proud

of what?

who knows.

their daughter is an insecure, arrogant, butt-ugly, obnoxious, potty-mouthed, uneducated, fat liberal who makes fun of God and christians all the time.

(funny how that works, ...God has the power to simply SPEAK the entire world into existence, and idiots all over his creation make fun of him, regardless of what he has in store for those who choose NOT to believe.)

Put the cheeseburger down, pull Clinton's dick out of your mouth, and wise up. Because the people who adore you have AIDS for a REASON.

----- Original Message -----
From: petey
To: margaret
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:11 PM
Subject: President Bush

Hey Margaret,
Don't say anything bad about my president, you fat piece of Mongolian dogshit. Go back to your own Country if you don't it here. And as a comedian, you are a sad joke.

----- Original Message -----
From: fansong77
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:50 PM
Subject: First Amendment

I must say, I am a huge proponent of the 1st Amendment. Having spent 23 yrs in the military, I was willing to sacrifice my life so you could speak freely in our society. And as such, I will now speak mine.

I saw on the internet your "comic" review and subsequent defense by Moby (whoever the fuck that is) of President Bush. I realize it was all in joking, so as a free speaking (let's save the whole fucking world with kindness) liberal, I'm sure you won't mind me speaking mine. I also realize you don't have the balls (what cunt does?) to reply to this, but here goes anyway.

Q: Did you hear that Margaret Cho's real last name is Chocking?
A: She had so much cock down her throat she couldn't get all the syllables out?

Q: Did you notice how much weight Margaret has lost lately?
A: Naturally, one tends to loose weight sucking cock all night!

Q: What do Eva Braun and Margaret Cho have in common?
A: They both think Hitler fucked them up the ass!

Q: What does Hitler and Margaret Cho have in common?
A: Both now realize the United States can kick anyone's ass!

I have one last thing to say. (Don't you just love free speech?) If you don't like the country in which you live, I will pay for you to leave, as long as you never return. I have no problem with you disagreeing with the President. I do however find it disgusting in which the way you do it. I didn't hear you ranting and raving about Slick Dick Willy getting a blowjob from Monica. Where the fuck were you then? I know...I know, he didn't inhale so it was ok. At least President Bush stands up for what is right, and is someone you can count on not to hid when the shit hits the fan. You and the rest of the moveon.org shitbags can go fuck themselves, but that is just my humble opinion. Us military veterans tend to express ourselves in no uncertain terms, so if you are upset and offended by my words, well hell, I guess I just won't know if I will be able to sleep tonight or not. But hey, what the fuck, you don't know me and I don't know you. This is just my "comic" review! Get a life, a real life and join the rest of the human race.

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----- Original Message -----
From: sjoyce
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:40 AM
Subject: Move on.org comments

Just a quick note to let you know that after reading your comments from the move on . org awards I was disgusted. Your comments were totally uncalled for. Why don't you you take your fat slant eyed head and go back to China.

F__k You

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From: lloyd
To: margaret
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 6:48 AM

Just another stupid lesbo chink

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From: lloyd early
To: karen
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: Re:

I have class. Something you clitoris suckers know nothing about.

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From: "Steve C
To: Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:43 AM
Subject: Fuck You Wang Chung

You are a no talent hack ! Go back to whatever third world country your
family hails from. Isn't it great that we live in a country where I can
tell you to go fuck yourself ? The only thing funny about you is when
you pour your fat ass into the tight leather outfits. Start shopping at
Lane Bryant !!

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave & Debra
To: margaret
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:08 PM

On you comments about Republicans. After reading you gibberish, You have proved to the world what a true fucking idiot you really are. By the way, after you receive enough money from the dumb shit libs that buy your trash, you might consider buying a new face. Your about the ugliest fucking cunt I've seen plastered in public for sometime. Hell, If I shaved my dogs ass and made him walk backwards he'd look better than you Cho.

----- Original Message -----
From: bbarras
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:10 PM
Subject: Homeland

Time to head home Kiddo.

You have proven yourself to be one who has no right to live in America.

Your family should go too. If they approve of your behavior, that is.

Go back home.Stay there. America is not your home, it's mine.

Being born here is just not enough, in your case. You deserve Korea at it's worst. Trash America? Then why haven't you left here? DUH?? Lemme guess...

You'll be a big star there. Lotsa drugs, no morals or IQ required. Just your cup of tea. You can stay the slut 24/7. Not sure how your language will help you in the marriage market, but then again, if you don't marry, you won't breed.

Works for me!

You know what? All your feelings of inferitority were right.

You are pure garbage.

---- Original Message -----
From: bass
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:49 AM
Subject: Don't Worry

I know they said: Fuck You you oriental bitch . You are not even an american. You are soooo stupid. Go fuck yourself with that nigger rapper D and go back to Asia you slanted eye whore.
and I know they said:Why don't take your slant-eyed ass back to the orient if you don't like it here, you worthless troll.

and I know they said:most people think you are a no talent, fat, washed up a-hole

and I know they said you are a butt-ugly, obnoxious, potty-mouthed, uneducated, fat liberal who makes fun of God and christians all the time.
and I know they said: Why don't you you take your fat slant eyed head and go back to China

and I know they said: I am hoping you develop breast cancer or contract a flesh-eating disease and pass it on to your whole f'n family... you bitch.
and I know they said:You sure are UG-LY.
and I know they said :in this country, you can look like a stuck pig (see http://www.drudgereport.com) You must admit you are one ugly bitch in this picture. and spout inane, vulgar, untruths....that are bought only in your adopted home town.

and then they said: b!tch I am from the south and proud of it...at least I can't be blindfolded with dental floss. And I saw your picture from the other night and it looks like you have more chins under your mouth than you had at your family reunion

and then they said:

Harro ms cho

light ring rut here. we grive u new klorian name, u = wan fat ho u arsso Femernazi too. and big blitch

If you cant trake humor...dont dish it out...al lite?? slant eye

hoo coome uo face soo flat like pamkake

last kreston jokie for you! Wat you crall 2 Klorians with headcold ??? answer..".gook, gook atchew.."

I know that this is what they said, but most just want you dead. A disease to this nation. A cancer upon our country. I can only pray that you will be defeated and destroyed for the good of all......

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From:
To: Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: Abolish/Boycott (Closet) Racism & Stereotyping

Karen,

Thanks for bringing the e-mail to Margaret's attention. Please let Margaret know that I am a comedian also, I will soon go into a studio to record my material and send it to her for production. My routine is like hers--sick, vulgar, profane, and so left-wing. Here is some of it.

"I was hangin out the other day and looked back into the dressing room of the moveon.org show I was attendin. I saw Margaet Cho sucking pimple juice off Chuck D's dick! Ha ha. After Chuck D dropped his load on Margaret, I saw her bend over for Al Franken, Ha ha. Well Al, the big fat liar was too puny and soft for Margaret so she got his left wing nut in her mouth and bit it, ha ha. Then Margaret started telling Julia Stiles how much she loved blondes and that all Koreans wanted to suck a white blonde leftist pussy, ha ha. So Julia bares her left-wing free speech clitois for Margaret, who looked at it and said, "Wow, just like the American Constitution, I love free speech and pussy at the same time. Can I talk dirty to it Julia?" Ha ha."

Well Karen, that is all the material I have at this time. I know it is not quite up to the left wing hate mongering of Margaret but I'll work on it.

Have a big left wing laugh there. I love Margaret's free speech models.

----- Original Message -----
From: David
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: Bush Bashing

You are a f'n loser... I am hoping you develop breast cancer or contract a flesh-eating disease and pass it on to your whole f'n family... you bitch.

It is liberal democrats that are f'n up the world. Women have had over 40,000,000 abortions in 30 years, that more lives killed then men in this country have killed in all the wars we have fought in combined. At least men can claim they did it in the name of LIBERTY and FREEDOM, women claim they kill in the name of CHOICE?

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From: Wes
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:04 PM
Subject: I wish for unlimited abortions

That way your mother could still abort you. You are about as funny as you are good looking. By the way, thanks for convincing my family to vote for George W. Bush.

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From: Sped
To: karen
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:24 AM
Subject: BOYCOTT CHO.COM

IT AINT FUNNY TO DISS HALF THE US POPULATION!!!!
SUGGEST THIS PUPPY GET A CIVICS EXAM OR ELSE TURN IN HER GREEN CARD !!!
WE ARE A CHRISTIAN NATION WHO LET HER KIN IN TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE
GET WITH THE PROGRAM OR GET OUT

----- Original Message -----
From: Sped
To: margaret
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: Appalling Emails

Harro ms cho

light ring rut here. we grive u new klorian name, u = wan fat ho
u arsso Femernazi too. and big blitch

If you cant trake humor...dont dish it out...al lite??

last kreston?? wat you crall 2 Klorians with headcold ???
answer..".gook, gook atchew.."

SIGNED DENNIS MILLER SAN..

----- Original Message -----
From: Cathy
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:32 AM
Subject: Pictrure on Drudge Report

After seeing your picture (ugh) on the Drudge Report, I can certainly understand why you are a lesbian. I'm sure all the straight men in the world are happy about that too. You sure are UG-LY.

Cat in TEXAS

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From: "David"