Last night I finally finished off the first draft of Anna May Wong Must Die!. I’ve been thinking about this even before 2008, when I made a BBC Radio 4 programme on one of my heroines, A Celestial Star In Piccadilly, about Hollywood’s first Chinese screen legend, Anna May Wong (broadcast January 2009). I’d originally […]
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BWA-HA-HA!!! Puny white people, we will have your nuts in the palm of our six-fingered hands before you can say ‘Fu Manchu’. Bow down before us and buy your crap what we made for you according to your own designs. The Great Obamao forces healthcare onto your inferior physiques and prepares you for conquest. Surrender
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Cor! They were THIS big! So Jack Straw draws on the age-old slur regarding men of colour and white women, with the accusation that “some British Pakistani men regard white girls as ‘easy meat’ for sexual abuse”. I believe this was also the chief fantasy of the Ku Klux Klan when they lynched black men
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The Guardian plugs their “Morrissey sparks racism row calling Chinese ‘subspecies’” Weekend magazine article on their front page. The old miserabilist has used the excuse of an animal cruelty scandal in China to brand the entire Chinese race as a “sub-species”. What, even Buddhists who don’t eat meat? Even the Chinese environmentalists and animal rights
Well, call me Kafka. My contribution to today’s Feedback programme on BBC R4 ended up as a cutting-room floor job in favour of a letter from another listener making similar points, which was good. At least it shows someone else could be bothered to write in about the god-awful throwback Fu Manchu In Edinburgh programme
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Last night Anna May Wong met Paul Robeson in Britain for the first time since the Thirties. Their stage personae, that is. I first heard of Tayo Aluko’s show, Call Mr Robeson, when I met him ten years ago at the Oval Theatre in London for a conference. Back then, it was still a dream
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