Hi. I’m black, and I have some advice that may or may not apply to you. That is: I don’t have any advice for Asian people today. I do, however, have some for non-Asian people. If that’s you, feel free to read on. This advice comes from the perspective of a…

Hi. Also some thoughts on Breonna Taylor memes and ‘minority’ humor. You may have heard that Rep John Lewis passed away. And if you’ve been on Twitter, you may have also heard that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio eulogized Lewis by posting a picture of himself and …Elijah Cummings. A man…

I first met Rich Chigga — as he was known back then, after his first performance in Los Angeles, back in May. I thought he was a pretty cool guy. We rode in someone’s car to a restaurant somewhere in Koreatown. He seemed absolutely bewildered by his fame, but very…

So, I watched this ‘Homo Cholo’ video about a gay Latino dude in LA, and it got me thinking: Donald Trump’s suggestion that we start profiling Muslims to prevent shootings like the one that happened in Orlando is kinda ironic. Not just because of our country’s pathetic history of racial…

Muhammad Ali didn’t ‘transcend race’. As @Shaft said the other day, Transcending race/gender is what white people say when they begrudgingly accept us as equals. Not realizing that they are the ones that need to transcend. So I made a Chrome extension to help people out in the meantime. The…

There are two things that bother me about Teacher Appreciation Week (which starts today, by the way). The first one is that it’s a “week” at all. It encourages us to think that if we send our kid to school with some store-bought cookies to put on Ms. Robinson’s desk…

For a lot of people born after the 1990s, the movie “Straight Outta Compton” may well be their first real exposure to the beating of Rodney King, or the L.A. riots. In the two decades since these events, a lot has happened in L.A. But how much has actually changed? …

Hi! You’re probably here because you heard me talk about Japanese rap music at a Pop-Up Magazine event. Maybe you’d like to hear some. So, here’s a mixtape I made: Japanese Rap Mixtape Listen to UCR Lecture — AST/JPN 154F Japanese Rap Jawns by Mixtape Show / dex digital for free. Follow Mixtape Show …www.mixcloud.com Note that I originally recorded this for a lecture I gave back in 2010, so the “new” stuff is a…

For a genre born of the digital age, grime can be pretty hard to keep up with. It’s not that the music itself isn’t accessible online. It is. But if you’re not actually living in the U.K., then you’re missing out on the culture. …