Hey Race Invaders, tonight we talk about Code Switching and how I mess it up, we talk about it in media portrayals in Kim’s Convenience and Sorry to Bother You, and we both talk about how and why we slip into accents at times.

We also talk briefly about how to keep your motivation to keep fighting the good fight when you’re feeling overwhelmed about it all (hint: self-care is important and focusing on projects helps).

Thanks for listening, and if you enjoyed this episode please tell a friend. Also, here is our patreon link.

Welcome to Race Invaders, where it’s no secret that Alok and Tim are big giant nerds. In this episode we will be discussing Nerd/Geek culture. Why nerds still exist even though nerd culture is way mainstream. And how and why toxic masculinity has poisoned the nerd well.

Tabletop RPGs, Star Wars, Comic Books, and we’re even going to be talking about fountain pens.

If you found this episode enjoyable and want to help, please tell one friend about this, give us a 5 star review on iTunes, and hit up our Patreon. 

We recorded on the last day of AAPI Heritage month. We managed to be Asian the entire month and not get threatened by white guys with knives. Lucky us.

 
In this episode, Tim wonders if the Left and the Far Left are seeing much more of a rift, and Alok tells us about the Overton Window which is, “An aproach of identifying which ideas define the domain of acceptability within a democracy’s possible governmental policy. Proponents of policies outside the window seek to persuade or educate the public in order to move and/or expand the window.”

 
We touch upon Rosanne and her racist shitfit, but to the larger point when we should or shouldn’t shoulder the emotional labor on what racism is and what it looks like.

Hey Race Invaders. Big thank you for coming back to the show. Today we’re going remedial, to an 084 class. Namely? Why the phrase, “I don’t see color” is deeply problematic and unhelpful. Why now? Because we’ve seen an uptick in it’s use and we want to nip that shit in the bud.

Also, we have a good time talking about why Koreans and Indians loved Black Panther. Thanks for letting us rant for 40 minutes, it feels good to be back.

Tim & Alok

I’ll be honest Race Invaders, Episode 33 with Malcolm Gin was one of my favorite while Alok is on holiday. Why? Well for starters, the technology was in place: home studio, microphone, earphones were all perfect. I mean, Mal consulted me with doing a setup before hand and technically this conversation was flawless. Okay, but what about the content?

Mal was easy to talk to, and since we are from the same generation, there was an easy cadence to how we spoke. We speak about trans issues, because Mal was born intersexed and identifies as Trans. We talk about doing social justice work, and how age has made us more radical, not less. (Frankly Mal is further left than me, and I welcome being challenged).

At any rate, please enjoy this conversation. I did. -Tim

That’s not true.

We talk about nerdy shit, like LARPing – a company that a shitty whitetwashed video to hawk their wares, and the loathed Barbaric Practices Act of 2015 and their promise to establish a “tip line” to report other Canadians of Color. 

Hello Race Invaders, Tim Yang here to let you know that Alok is taking some time off. So, with his blessing I’m interviewing/co-hosting the show with other interesting, funny and insightful PoC.

In this episode myself and Dr. Miquel Lewis discuss what the hell is happening over in Chicago. A great place, no doubt, but beset with it’s own challenges with violence for sure. It turns out? There’s no special thing about Chicago except that the people in power are cutting resources for people already dealing with the issues surrounding poverty and what appears to be limited choices.

Regardless, it’s super interesting to hear Miq’s take, so fire up the ole podcast and let’s hear what the good doctor has to say!

Hello Race Invaders. Hey, look – we’ve been at this for a year now. How the hell did that happen?

On today’s episode, Tim has three things he wants to get off his chest and tries to tie them all back to a central theme: Proportional Responses to Difficult Situations. Have we as a society lost track on how to do this? Has the Internet Hate Machine made us into monsters, or have we been monstrous all along? Where should lines be drawn?

Also, Tim talks about his experience going to a townhall where a discussion of Tommy Le’s slaying takes place. Rest in Power Tommy Le, you were taken way too early from us.

A discussion of staying in your lane, why it’s important and maybe why it’s not important. We’ll talk it out and come to some super satisfying conclusion, I’m sure. We speak about the Dunning Kruger effect. 

When are you talking out of your butt? Hint: if you’re being aggressive and defensive it’s a good time to take a time out.

Hey everyone. When we spoke about this last week, we didn’t know that we were going to also have to read about a white guy running down a young Quinalt father. We didn’t know that a man with a history of white supremacy was going to stab and kill two men and injure another who were trying to protect two Muslim women in Portland.

We didn’t know. We should have been able to see that a pattern of violence emerges as summer approaches, but it always takes one’s breath away.

This episode, Episode 28, we’ll be talking about the ghastly murder of Richard Collins III, we reference Dave Zirin’s thought piece on why calling this a lynching is the right thing to do.

Rest in power, Richard Collins III, we can only hope that we can do better protecting our future leaders.

Heyyyyyyy Race Invaders, we’re back after taking naps. Today we, well, catch up with each other and ask each other five questions that were totally prepared and not at all spontaneous. Nope. Totally scripted.

I give Alok the 411 on Luna Lee and her awesome gayageum skills, update him about being in the Seattle Rock Orchestra and he fills me in on his experience with Re-Orient, a coming together of Asian Americans over food and conversation.

In the second half we discuss the story that everyone read regarding Eudocia Tomas Pulido, aka “Lola” and her slavery. Is there any validity to the point that our understanding of Filipino slavery is incomplete and unfair with our Western sensibilities? Listen and find out.

Hello Race Invaders, thanks for dropping by for Episode 26, which I cleverly named The Tao of Dao, in which of course we talk about the brutal conflation between corporate policy and state violence. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know what happened, but we’re talking about it anyway.

In our second segment, Alok brings to attention our former Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy and how he was “made redundant” by our current administration. Unfair, and of questionable reasoning from the Administrative Branch of our government, I know it’s a shock that we both think so.

Thanks to always to our sound engineer, Steve “Sonos” Jacoby, and if you liked this episode please rate and review us on iTunes, or Stitcher or what ever service you use to listen. Either that or recommend a friend. As always you can kick in a few bucks on our Patreon. Thanks again!

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Hey Race Invaders, this week we team up with our friends over at All Comics Considered to trash talk, er, review Iron Fist. What does this show mean to comic book fans? What does it mean for Asian-Americans in Western Media (hint: nothing good).

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Hey hey, what’s new Race Invaders? So we’re two Asian-American dudes with microphones, so we thought it was super important to let you know what we think about things. Today’s thing? The so-called Echo Chamber, what we think about it, why it’s important why it’s not important and when to recognize it.

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Welcome back Race Invaders. Like a bunch of you, we saw Get Out recently – currently enjoying having crossed the 100 million dollar mark at the box office. And like you, we really enjoyed it.

In addition to analyzing the film we get around to talking about the significance of Yasuhiko Oyama, the lone Asian character in the sea of white devils. Why was he there? We’ll tell you.

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Welcome back to Race Invaders! With Tim away on vacation, Alok is pleased to have Max Sparber as a guest host. An essayist and playwright, Max runs the blog Dress British Think Yiddish, where he talks about his journey in relearning the Yiddish language, his reactions to the resurgence of antisemitism in American discourse, and how to make the most Jewish cocktails around. We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up on Facebook and Twitter and support us if you can at our Patreon page! Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby, and a special thank you to Max Sparber from Dress British Think Yiddish!

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Hey Race Invaders, this is Alok. I’m all alone in the pod, because no one told me it was fucking vacation month, damn. Anyway, this is just a short note to tell you about some things we’ve got coming up, some media for you to check out in the meantime (including some terrible nepotistic plugging), and a bit of a meditation on where the hell we are after not even three weeks of Trumpocalypse.

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up on Facebook and Twitter and support us if you can at our Patreon page! Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby, not least because he didn’t have time to mix this before going on “vacation” with his “family”, and boy does it show.

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Welcome to another episode of Race Invaders, where we are desperately trying not to just talk about Trump all the goddamn time. Today we’re discussing calling people out versus calling people in; when should you put someone on blast, and when should you have a quiet word aside? We also talk about times we got told and had to change, and Tim has a few words for someone who believes that immigrants can just suck up their travel ban. Unsurprisingly, those words are: what the shit?

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up on Facebook and Twitter and support us if you can at our Patreon page! Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby!

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Welcome to Race Invaders, sponsored by nazipunch.haha. For our monumental 20th episode, we examine the ethics and morals of Nazi-punching (spoiler: punch that Nazi today) and other dilemmas. Also, What The Shit makes a triumphant return, as Alok yells ineffectually at some fucking idiot who thinks that girls drinking whiskey is a notable character trait and who also thinks the right way to make an old-fashioned is with muddled fruit and club soda. I mean, this fucking guy.

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up on Facebook and Twitter and support us if you can at our Patreon page! Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby!

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Hey Race Invaders.

Look, we’ll be the first ones to admit that we aren’t perfect. I think we’ve made that pretty clear over the length and breadth of this podcast. We’re going to get things wrong, and when we do, we’ll course correct.

That being said? Sometimes being wrong feels so right. So here we are, Episode 19: Electronic Mail, where we are unabashedly assholes. Was it warranted? Well, we think so – but we invite you to be the judge.

On this episode, Alok and I respond to this email – it’s gonna get salty:
Hey Tim,

I thought your latest episode was really helpful, although I was left wondering what the “male gaze” actually is. I can read Wikipedia, but then the podcast should be more than a list of new and strange keywords to search, right? I especially had that reaction to your critique in the Margaret Cho segment where you said, ~26:00 before you waste someone’s time, try searching “strange concept 1”, “strange concept 2”, (racebending, yellowface, etc.). and I’m like: “how do I magically invent these concepts for searching with no prior exposure?” “How do I know they aren’t bogus Internet red herrings designed to mislead well-meaning people into sounding like idiots?” As if all minority people are speaking your language all the time and we whites are just ignoring them… not exactly. These are in fact somewhat arcane academic concepts specific to the field of social activism and I believe the average POC also has no reliable attachment point for the term “race-bending”.

I really appreciated the “even the best of us can get tripped up sometimes” message. That’s great for smoothing the edgy and somewhat unavoidable “We can do no wrong because we are POC” tone that seeps out of most episodes. As much as you say “we are not perfect”, your disdain for white males and their perspective is the primary topic most of the time, which can make for a challenging listen.

I have an opinion about the source of the “self-defensive crouch” that you see white people assuming (FWIW). I think that there is a more extreme form of white supremacist language that white people are more exposed to than minorities are, because it’s not broadcast publicly, and the proponents only direct their messages to other white people, so minority people get it off-hand or indirectly, but white people hear it spoken directly to them… (mostly by uneducated people that aren’t even part of your conversations probably). Not that you’ve never heard it, but you might view it as being less prevalent than more “casual white supremacy” because you are much less likely to hear it first-hand from people you know personally.

So, the white people that have compassion for minorities take a defensive stance against being associated with this extreme/uneducated group because they see the world of whites as split between those that have some compassion and desire to understand and those that basically don’t give a shit.

“we” (the more liberal bunch) feel we deserve some credit for our compassion and we hate being lumped into a single group of white supremacists, or considered as “all part of the same system”. The defensive crouch comes when the desire to be accepted as part of the solution meets perceived resistance, even in the mild form of “you aren’t nearly there yet”. I think this explanation covers me as a scientist and probably also to the Hollywood types who see themselves as activists and pretty much any professional/worldly white person accustomed to being taken seriously.

I often hear the message between the lines of your comments that “there is no way a white person can be part of the solution, because they are so invested in their position of power” or even “the only way a white person can help is by working against their own interests” (e.g. Tulsa Swinton should turn down any role that doesn’t accurately reflect her own heritage out of principle when any actor knows that’s a recipe for disaster). This is a self-defeating message. People don’t work against their own interests based on an emotional argument from a complete stranger. Much better to find a way to involve white people in whatever reform you want than to imply that their taint will spoil it…

Compassionate white people will continue to seek easy solutions, or “balm for their guilt”, that is totally true. But they are also willing to accept a bigger challenge if they aren’t pushed out altogether first. Baby steps.

It’s great that you mentioned that some people “just don’t know better” and some people are putting on an act to hide their own denial. This is true. It’s also possible that people know better in one dimension, but have blinders in a different dimension, or haven’t figured out how to apply what they know to new dimensions of race/creed/etc. There are infinite dimensions to this problem, and people’s ability to wield tools of acceptance/fairness is very much finite. This is much more related to basic human nature than to “white culture” in my view.

Anyway, I’m still following along. I would love it if you guys could have a white guy guest come in and give a little white perspective. I’d like to hear a little more healthy debate and a little less “yes, but also yes” between two hosts that obviously see eye to eye on 95% of the core issues. Disagreement on minutiae is not debate.

One of my favorite episodes was the interview with the Sci-Fi author, maybe because he had a much more moderate way of presenting his views…
Thanks for your dedication, and no problem if you prefer not to read this whole email. The therapeutic part for me is still accomplished either way.

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up on Facebook and Twitter and support us if you can at our Patreon page! Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby!

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Hello Race Invaders! Today’s episode is a little different, we had a chat with one of Alok’s friends from the his early years, Kelly Schenkman, who is a veteran of the United States Army. We wanted to have a discussion with her regarding what it was like being a woman in the military, how she decided on signing up, the things she saw, imposter syndrome, and how her stint has impacted her life today.

It’s all fascinating, and it’s all here on Episode 18: Brass Tacts.

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up on Facebook and Twitter and support us if you can at our Patreon page! Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby!

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Today dear listeners I’m calling this episode, “The Coverup”, and in it we talk about the Male Gaze, makeup and how I, Tim, fucked up in this regard.

I apologize.

We also talk about the kerfuffle between Margaret Cho and Tilda Swinton and explore how it could happen that two people could have the same interaction but walk away with completely different reactions.

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By the way? We’ve heard from some of you that playing the link at the top of the page isn’t working well. We’ve found the the best results come from Chrome over Firefox!

I’m calling this one “You Wrote the Show!”, because in this episode we take on a bunch of your questions and do our best to rapid-fire reply to them. We aren’t that rapid because the show is still 57 minutes long.

Shout out to everyone that asked questions, we really appreciate you!

You Wrote The Show Notes

Did Elvis culturally appropriate?

Re-revisiting cultural appropriation, AGAIN.

Shout out to Childish Gambino!

“Irish Slavery” and false equivalencies

We talk briefly on Vikings

We cover the mirroring of real world issues with our geeky hobbies.

What about holidays, how did we grow up being Asian and Christmas?

Unconscious/covert bias in pop culture training.  Society and pop culture trains people to have unconscious bias.

I briefly mention The Superfriends as an example of an older time being a little more representative in popculture.

Religious exploitation of minority groups – we briefly touch on this and will go at length later.

Examine generational trends around racism and the recent election.

Fake Allies – what’s up?

War on Christmas?

Plug for SMC’s Silver & Soul

Black Santa? We’re fine with that dude.

Sean King’s Injustice Boycott

Who qualifies as white enough? Are Jews white or PoC?

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Hello Race Invaders – today’s episode is titled “The Economics of Racism”, and we’re talking about the historical and current economic realities that contribute to racism. What does trading bits of green paper have to do with racism? It turns out: a lot.

Show notes:

A shout out to Juan Pa on Twitter who can be found @jpbrammer and whom I quote at the top of the show.

I referenced Sean King’s essay at the New York Daily News, “Without Obama in the White House, the Democratic Party is Painfully and Disproportionately White”.

Alok spoke about Nick Hanauer’s essay, “The Pitchforks are Coming…For Us Plutocrats”, which I enjoyed reading a few years ago.

And last, and least Alok also spoke about Grover Norquist, the man responsible for much of how the GOP thinks on taxes.

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby!

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Hi Race Invaders,

After a little post-election break we’re back to talk to you through what happened on 11/9. We’re thinking about changing the format of the end of the show from “What the Shit” to “What the Shit Do We Do Now?”

We also answer listener question, “What do we do about problematic artists?” And therefore I talk about Rocky Horror Picture Show. They’re related, I promise!

Links:

project1460.org <–projects for you to do in the face of this new administration

whywereafraid.com <–user generated stories of rising hate crimes

http://shop.civilrightsmuseum.org/black-lives-matter-t-shirt/ <–Get a legit BLM tshirt

http://verysmartbrothas.com/  and http://theestablishment.co <–Get educated from reliable sources

We make a little fun of the safety pin, we talk about the whys on the election, and generally you can just hear us walking through what happened. We talk about our surprises, and why our trust levels are pretty shaky.

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby!

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Hey there, Race Invaders. We’ve got a special one for you today: an interview with Steven Barnes, Hugo-nominated author and screenwriter, martial artist, and all-around cool dude. Also, Alok has a special thanks for all of you listeners, and then he has a special joke for you in the form of someone actually paying Rachel Dolezal to write a fucking book. This is madness.

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up onFacebook and Twitter. Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby, to our guests Marty Gleason and Steven Barnes, and to you, our listeners.

Steven Barnes’ blog and website: https://stevenbarneslife.wordpress.com/

Marty Gleason on Twitter: https://twitter.com/officergleason

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Tim: tim@raceinvaders.org

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Sup Race Invaders, how’ve you been? We ate up Luke Cage in 3 days after it appeared on Netflix and we’re gonna talk about it. So if you haven’t watched it yet what’s wrong with you?, maybe hold off on this week’s episode until you take it all in.

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up onFacebook and Twitter. Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby, and to you, our listeners.

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Alok: alok@raceinvaders.org

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Howdy Race Invaders, today we’ll be talking about mental health and how it intersects with both the Asian community and how it’s impacted our own lives.

Hey, we care about you – so if you feel like you’re in crisis please reach out to someone, a trusted friend or family. If nothing else there is the Suicide Lifeline, you reach them by phone at 800-273-8255. No shame in that, we’ve both availed ourselves of their services in the past.

For more on the impact of depression, we have a video for you from Stanford’s Dr. Sapolsky.

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up onFacebook and Twitter. Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby, and to you, our listeners.

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Alok: alok@raceinvaders.org

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Hey Race Invaders, it’s episode 10 and we’re doing something a little differently – I reached out to you for your burning questions, and we spent the entire 42 minutes answering said questions.

So hey, thanks for asking!

Shout out to Hannah, Esarhaddon, Jamie, Steven, and Rayah. For those of you who asked questions, we’ll be incorporating a question each episode. So, yes – thanks for the new feature!

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up on FacebookandTwitter. Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby, and to you, our listeners.

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Alok: alok@raceinvaders.org

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Hey Race Invaders, this episode we’re talking about Cultural Appropriation – what it looks like, who it impacts, and appropriation versus exchange. We also make fun of that White Pho Chef dude, and no – we aren’t sorry for it in the least.

We talk about why the Disney Moana costume was a terrible idea, and since we’ve recorded Disney has thought better of it and pulled the costume from the shelves. Yay!

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up on Facebook andTwitter. Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby, and to you, our listeners.

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Alok: alok@raceinvaders.org

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Welcome back to Race Invaders, the show with 100% more Korean beefcake thanks to your generous support. Today, we’re talking about media representation, why it matters, and how it can hurt to lack it. Also, Tim has a bone to pick with Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson, and Alok thinks the wrong West Virginian police officer got fired.

Show notes:

Overinvested podcast episode on Doctor Strange: http://www.overinvestedpodcast.com/episodes/doctor-strange-trailer

Honorable police officer, Stephen Mader: Officer Mader’s story

Thanks for listening to Race Invaders! If you like what you heard, please subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music. Look us up on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks as ever to our brilliant sound engineer, Steve Jacoby, and to you, our listeners.

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Alok: alok@raceinvaders.org

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Hi Invaders,

This episode, we’re going a little more personal than usual. Today Tim Yang is going to talk about his family. What it was like for his mom to immigrate to the United States, and how is dad migrated from North Dakota to Seattle and how they met.

Its a deeply personal story filled to the brim with some heartache and confusion. I’m not entirely sure what the lesson here is, frankly, except maybe to show everyone that an Asian Family isn’t always the safe family sitcom that you might imagine.

Then, as if things don’t get sad enough, we talk about Adam Crapser, a Korean-American man who was adopted in the States when he was three and now because his abusive adoptive parents never completed naturalization paperwork now faces deportation at age 40. He is retained by ICE in Tacoma while his wife and 3 kids hopefully await his release.

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Links: 

What’s happening at the Dakota Pipeline: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/us/dakota-access-pipeline-visual-guide/

Where to donate to the Standing Rock Sioux: http://standingrock.org/news/standing-rock-sioux-tribe–dakota-access-pipeline-donation-fund/

10 Ways on How You Can Help: xhttp://thefreethoughtproject.com/10-protest-dakota-access-pipeline/

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Adam’s Story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/abandoned-south-korean-adoptee-faces-deportation-from-u-s/

How you can help and how to donate to Adam’s fund: http://adopteerightscampaign.org/stand-with-adam/

https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Club-Korean-Adoptees-Then/dp/1512331538/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473358290&sr=8-1&keywords=the+unknown+culture+club

We’re all the way up to episode six! Today we talk about our heroes, why we have ’em and the good and bad about it. Also, we want to give a gigantic love filled shout out to “Uncle” Bob Santos.

Links? Links!

Uncle Bob: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/uncle-bob-santos-legendary-civil-rights-activist-dies-at-82/

Donnie Chin: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/man-shot-while-in-car-in-chinatown-international-district/

Grace Lee Boggs: http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/06/27/417175523/grace-lee-boggs-activist-and-american-revolutionary-turns-100

Chimamanda Adichie: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story

Dave Zirin / Edge of Sports Radio: http://www.edgeofsports.com/

and hey, why not a What the Shit link:

Maine Gov. Paul LePage: http://www.vox.com/2016/8/28/12682876/maine-lepage-racist-shoot

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Welcome to another episode of Race Invaders, the show that really needs to get over its irrational fear of mayonnaise. In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about white privilege,  white fragility, intersections of class and gender, and how small injustices lead to big ones. Also, Tim has had it with the governor of North Dakota, and Alok has a special message for 18-year-old sexual assailant David Becker. Try and guess what it is.

You want links? How about some links.

Why Tim is mad at the Gov of North Dakota:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/18/north-dakota-pipeline-activists-bakken-oil-fields

A note on mediocrity:

And fuck, fucking rapist David Becker:

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Tim: tim@raceinvaders.org

Alok: alok@raceinvaders.org

Welcome to Race Invaders, the Podcast that’s 5 star hot. Today we’ll be talking about The Model Minority Myth – where it came from, why it’s horseshit, and what if anything, we can do with it to make things better.

Tim talked briefly about Yuri Kochiyama, and promised a link to the piece he wrote about her.

Here’s a link to the pivotal court case that Alok spoke on – US vs. Bhagat Singh Thind.

A couple clarifications: there is an H-1B1 visa which is a type of skilled worker’s non-immigrant visa for residents of Singapore and Chile, but we meant to reference the more general H-1B dual intent non-immigrant visa and the E-1 through E-4 immigrant visas. Oops.

Also, the 1965 act in question is the Immigration and Nationality Act, not the Immigration and Naturalization Act. Oops.

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Tim: tim@raceinvaders.org

Alok: alok@raceinvaders.org

Thanks for tuning in to this, our third episode of Race Invaders! Today we’re going to jaw about interracial dating, what it looks like from the PoC perspective, and how to manage doing it without fetishizing folks.

Here’s the link for the OKCupid article that Tim spoke about.

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trigger warning: non-graphic descriptions of violence against women and male rage

Thanks for tuning in to our second episode of Race Invaders! This time around, we’re talking about toxic masculinity, growing up in a patriarchy that doesn’t accept you but still benefits you, the causes and effects of male rage, and why Lyft needs to get their shit together in a hurry.

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Thanks for listening to our inaugural podcast! You want show notes? We have some show notes for you.

Tim: I know how to  pronounce “inaugural”, I promise. I was just having a difficult time.

This episode we talk about

-What do people mean when they talk about “identity politics?”

-Are discussions of identity divisive to unity? Also, we talk about the political fiction of Asian-Americans.

-Is immigration without integration an invasion? (Spoilers: No – also Bobby Jindal is a massive tool). 

Some clarifications – Alok: In part 1 I was starting to make a point about intersectional identity and how people with multiple axes of oppression experience threats differently than those with privilege along most but not all lines. However, then I got distracted and never made that point, which led me to inadvertently separate out one identity from another as though they are disparate and women are different from black people are different from gay people. Obviously, people are lots of things all at once. My apologies for being inarticulate on the matter.

Tim: I was discussing how in America, Asians are largely treated the same despite varied backgrounds. I was making a point that all East Asian-Americans are called “chinks”, and Alok offered that his experience was somewhat different. He related that he was sometimes called “sand nigger”, I repeated that, and it felt awful and bad coming out of my mouth. I apologize for utilizing an awful slur.

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