• Contact
  • Privacy Policy
Blacksonrise.com
DONATE
  • Consultation EST
  • Herbal Internal Wash
  • Group Training
  • Videos
  • Spiritual Detox
  • Ecourses
  • Client Area
    • Course Login
    • Video Login
    • LogOut
No Result
View All Result
  • Consultation EST
  • Herbal Internal Wash
  • Group Training
  • Videos
  • Spiritual Detox
  • Ecourses
  • Client Area
    • Course Login
    • Video Login
    • LogOut
No Result
View All Result
Blacksonrise.com
No Result
View All Result

A-pop! On dogs, public-shaming, accidental racism, and true love!

blacksonrise by blacksonrise
November 25, 2020
in African American News
0
A-pop! On dogs, public-shaming, accidental racism, and true love!
0
SHARES
187
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

By Stacy Nguyen
Northwest Asian Weekly

What’s up! Hope you are doing well and not spreading a deadly virus to all of your family members this holiday week!

In this column, there is honestly a lot of controversy. You are welcome.

Japanese celeb loses job due to extramarital affair—as an American, I’m like, whaaat?

Masahiko Kondo

Masahiko Kondo, 56, is a Japanese singer, former J-pop idol during the 1980s, semi-pro racing driver, and owner of Kondo Racing. He seems like a busy dude.

But evidently not too busy to step out on his wife. Earlier this month, Japanese gossip magazine Shukan Bunshun reported that he’s been cheating on his wife with a 31-year-old woman. Kondo totally confirmed this in a kind of honesty that I frankly find bizarre coming from a public figure. Furthermore, his employer—Johnny & Associates Inc., one of Japan’s most powerful talent agencies—publicly shamed the dude and said he was “thoughtless” and “lacked an awareness and sense of responsibility” before the powers that be suspected him indefinitely so that Kondo can think about what he has done. They straight up called it the “right” punishment for “the oldest” talent.

Advertisements

Guys, I’m not going to even focus on how oddly puritanical Japan apparently is with its public figures. I’m just so charmed because I live in a country that has been totally okay with our president being a menace to women. How novel! Getting condemned publicly for cheating on your wife! Wow!

Sacramento County declares racism a public health crisis—then in a cruel twist of fate, its health director acts all racist!

Dr. Peter Beilenson

Applause for Sacramento County, California, which is among the latest local governments across the country declaring racism a public health crisis. (That’s right! And it is!) You know what’s unfortunate though? During the passage of the resolution—which was a unanimous decision— Sacramento County Health Director Dr. Peter Beilenson expressed his support by saying, “It’s a crucial thing we need to be doing to address the issues of the African American and brown and yellow folks in our country as well as the white folks.”

I know what you’re thinking. Yes, he totally forgot to include red folks.

Actually, the dude has been getting so much earned backlash for calling us Asians yellow. He says he feels really bad about it. He says, “In my 30-year career in public health, I’ve never had an issue like this before.”

For the record, social media hasn’t been around for 30 years. So technically, he could have called people by colors before, and he just wasn’t caught. But I get the sentiment of what he was saying. He’s saying: “I very much apologize for that and will certainly use Asian Pacific Islander in the future.”

You know what is kind of weird about this whole thing? That he is kind of getting off scot-free over the whole brown thing. Like, I don’t think this dude should be calling people brown, either, man.

Cardi B is sorry for appropriating Hindu culture on shoe magazine

Cardi B

Rapper Cardi B made headlines in a bad way in November when she posed on the cover of Footwear News holding a shoe. On the cover, she is shown with multiple arms, which, according to Footwear News, was meant to be an homage to the Hindu goddess Durga.

Clearly no one Hindu was consulted on this idea because a number of violations occurred in the photo: Shoes are banned in temples, Durga is not supposed to be depicted bare-bodied, and she is also not a device used to sell freaking Reeboks, of all things.

In response to getting called out for this, Cardi said, “If people think I’m offending their culture or their religion, I want to say I’m sorry. That was not my intent. I do not like disrespecting nobody’s religion. … Maybe I should have done my research. I’m sorry, I can’t change the past, but I will do more research for the future.”

Cardi really shouldn’t have trusted Footwear News to do the Googling.

Who dat API?!

Amazon Prime Video

Hey, guys. Here’s my very sporadic and random round-up of cool APIs that I have accidentally seen on TV. This list is never comprehensive, just circumstantial!

Linh Iacona, Vania Zuniga, and Kioni “Kentucky” Russell Gallahue, seen on Amazon Prime Video’s “The Pack”

“The Pack” is a reality show featuring dogs and their owners (or as I like to say, their human mommies and daddies). Each team goes around the world competing in athletic challenges for a chance to win $500,000.

The show is def super duper American (every contestant is beautiful-looking and TV-ready, there’s a lot of slow-motion PG-porn of cute dogs running in water, and the suspenseful editing will drive you mad as it entertains you). I loved it. I was super glad to see APIs rep with their pooches.

(FYI, I am guessing Kentucky is API from looks alone. I actually am not 100 percent sure. Do you happen to know?)

Vien Hong, seen on ABC’s “This is Us”

Vien Hong plays a new mysterious character named Hai on “This is Us,” but I prefer to call him ‘Hot Viet Grandpa.’ Not much is known so far about Hot Viet Grandpa, just that he likes to fish and was in an interracial relationship with a woman who seems to be the love of his life. I can’t say anymore. I don’t want to spoil it for you.

Midori Francis, Troy Iwata, Jodi Long, James Saito, Jennifer Ikeda, and Agneet Thacker, seen on Netflix’s “Dash & Lily”

“Dash & Lily” is a cute rom-com series for the Gen-Z crowd, about a boy and a girl who are probably meant for each other, but they take the entirety of 12 episodes to get together because there’s a narrative arc they have to follow. The maternal side of Lily’s family is Japanese! Her dad is white! She sometimes doesn’t feel pretty because she’s Asian. What girl can’t relate?

It was cool to see Jodi Long and James Saito on screen together. Saito played Oroku Saki—aka the original Shredder—don’t even pretend like you didn’t know.

Stacy Nguyen can be reached at stacy@nwasianweekly.com.

Related

Credit: Source link

Previous Post

This Highly-Reviewed Language Learning App Can Help Boost Your Career Earnings Potential

Next Post

Telstra taken to court over aggressive selling towards Indigenous Australians

Next Post
Telstra taken to court over aggressive selling towards Indigenous Australians

Telstra taken to court over aggressive selling towards Indigenous Australians

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

ADVERTISEMENT

HOT Updates

No Content Available

BlackSonRise.com is an online news portal which aims to provide Caribbean News, African News, Business and much more stuff like that. Feel free to get in touch with us!

Follow us on social media:

Recent News

  • Eyewitness: Christmas Eve… | INews Guyana
  • UK stocks edge higher in muted holiday trading – SABC News
  • History repeats for NYCFC against Costa Rican debutant

Subscribe NOW

Loading
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy

© 2019 Blacksonrise.com is an online news, e-learning, and business website that caters to the global black community.

No Result
View All Result
  • Consultation EST
  • Herbal Internal Wash
  • Group Training
  • Videos
  • Spiritual Detox
  • Ecourses
  • Client Area
    • Course Login
    • Video Login
    • LogOut

© 2019 Blacksonrise.com is an online news, e-learning, and business website that caters to the global black community.

USD $
  • USD USD $
  • EUR EUR €
  • GBP GBP £