Some of you may not have noticed but there is a huge blogosphere firestorm over a two year old book called Deadly Viper Character Assassins: A Kung Fu Survival Guide for Life and Leadership I tried several times to weigh in at one of the blogs that started the storm here but believe it or not my comments never were allowed to be posted!

My comments were about how as an inter-racially married person my family experiences racism from both races and that my Amer-Asian son was teased by the full blooded Asians and the Caucasians sometimes mercilessly.
that post never made it…

Another comment I made was in reference to this reply to a post on Rah’s blog where Kathy Khang wrote: “As a Christian Asian American, I have grown weary of reading Christian leadership and character development books that are written solely through the eyes of Western/American majority culture.” I replied to Kathy that a Western/American author can only write through their own eyes, just like an Asian can only write from their own point of view.  We cannot no matter how hard we try, write, create, speak or interact with others from any other point of view.  We can sympathize, empathize and even understand the other person’s point of view but we can never not be us.

I also pointed out the the United States is predominately Caucasian, meaning Caucasians are the majority, so if the majority is Western/American Caucasian, the majority of the books written will be from them… the majority.  So when you walk in a bookstore there are going to be more books from the majority race as compared to the minority races.  I currently live in Asia, Kathy’s point would be like me going into a bookstore here and being upset that there weren’t enough books written and available from my race, language and culture.  It was a nice way of telling here that she was being ethnocentric and was not seeing it from a realistic vantage in that its really all about the numbers of peoples in the US.

That comment didn’t get posted.

So I asked the Professor, as he likes to be called, which is a stereotypical way of addressing Koreans, by title… why my posts weren’t being allowed.  He probably won’t answer…so does that make him a racist?