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The Truth: Revisited
by Frank Agostinelli
"Be secure with who you are, and if people, critics, nay-sayers, and the malcontents won't accept who you are . . . feel free to insert the inflammatory F-word coupled with them."
Quoted from the article The Truth from the debut of AsiansOfMixedRace.com January/February 2006
And with that line, AsiansOfMixedRace.com’s resident angry half-Asian man was born. Not the novelty act I do within the realm of a tongue-in-cheek slash real world column on this site but a generally pissed off individual. Some may say I am mad at the world. This is partially correct. And let me preface this as it has zero to do with me growing up a multiracial miscreant. The reason I’m mad at the world is because of individuals who display their utter stupidity and blatant deception on every level of importance daily. It’s amazing I haven’t dropped dead yet from my blood pressure reaching beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Some of you I know wish I would. I’m not sorry to disappoint. I’m too pissed off ever to die. Understand me? In addition, I’m a valuable commodity in today’s idol worshiping, shallow-minded, overtly and overly bias world of Simpletons-R-Us. So while I babble along my merry way you must be thinking aloud, what is this jackass talking about?
I’ve reflected a lot the last several months about what direction to take this wonderful idea that became AsiansOfMixedRace.com. Should I add more? Should I take away? Should I shut it down? Well, I want to shut it down but I cannot. I have seriously considered doing this. I’m disenchanted with the whole Mixed Asian/Multiracial thing and I have been for a while. I think it was validated when the lady and I went to see my friend Kip Fulbeck and his Hapa Project gallery at NYU in March of 08. I took it all in. It was enjoyable being around others who were like me, appearance-wise. Then I took another breath. I’m not like them. I sensed most were there for the novelty of being Hapa to be around other Hapas but never to truly know these other visiting Hapas. It’s nothing personal. It is just the way it is. Another thing that is bothersome to me is the fact I know I could visit one of those forum boards right now and see the same old redundant pile of elephant crap being discussed like it was the year 2000. “Look how beautiful we are! My mother’s side doesn’t accept me! That girl only likes me because she thinks I’m Asian! Why are Hawai’ians mad because we use the word hapa? I’m Hapalicious!” You get the point. I am all about solutions and conclusions. What I have seen over the years (in reference to what we are perceived to be and I know it’s continuing right this very second) is a lot of whining, crying, bitching, moaning and little effort being made to silence stigmas, stereotypes or whatever. A country club atmosphere mixed with self-worship and nonsensical bickering.
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There is zero wrong with having those you can kickback with on-line and kick it with. But when it comes to Mixed Asians as a whole, what are you doing to make things better? What I have failed to see are the rebirths of individuals who do not define themselves every single day by their racial background. I know there may be a couple but there are hundreds of thousands of Mixed Asians. People like to follow rather than lead. People are more talk-oriented than action-oriented.I could coddle them and say, “It’s not your fault. It’s someone else’s,” but I don’t follow trends and I do not believe in becoming a eunuch to get along better in society. I believe in straight-blasting through obstacles and going Sonny LoSpecchio and saying “Look at me. I did this to you. Remember me.”
If most people who have read my articles (that focused on us) held onto and applied the one common theme of being the best possible person you can be and to remember after you strip away the amenities, you’re human, then my site and the rest catering to those of Mixed Asian ancestry as well as multiracial people in general would be put out to pasture. What would be the need? But of course you will always see another dot org or forum board spawned from problems that can be alleviated with elbow grease and testicular fortitude. You don’t keep going back to the same class after you have graduated high honors! Then again, if you fail you have no choice but to go back to the same class. Part of the problem is many are stuck in the American Pie Trilogy and never want to leave. The other part is lack of motivation and determination. It’s sickening when there is an easy solution and it’s ignored. I almost feel like Fox News. I have to go against the pitter-patter news organizations that commit news blasphemy for ignoring the relevant stories and constantly lying to their audience. What a bunch of ninnies.
I do realize I can never put this horse down. It is a step to finality in a Mixed Asian cyber world of infinite bullshit. The whole thing is, do you have what it takes to be the final piece in this puzzle? Or are you going to relive the movie Groundhog Day? Think about it.
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