RaeMowse@aol.com writes:

    "Hey, girls, mind if we stop for some fried chicken first?  I'm starving."
    "Yes, airen!"
    He sighed as they started to sing something in Chinese.  Why did he have 
to fall into the Spring of Drowned Southern Black Man?

What the fuck was this? If you thought that this was somehow a good
idea, you're poorly mistaken.

Why not just have Ranma dress up in black face and do a little
soft-shoe? Racial relations in the US and in Japan are bad enough
without trash like this being written.

This:

    In case someone didn't get it, Ranma's reaction to being half black, I 
took it from Peach Girl, where someone with darker skin is generally seen as 
a bad person, and the main character -- forgot her name -- tans like a 
marmallow over a campfire.  Of course, there's also a flipside that everyone 
else takes; I've heard, they love black people in Japan, often because they 
think they all rap, have sexual tools the sizes of which they can only read 
about in hentai, and are sex gods in bed, or something of the like.
    Well, if they're comparing to the average Japanese man, that's more than 
likely true. ^_^;;  No offense meant, of course, just stating what
I'm told. 

hardly makes it better.

People are still people, and they do defy the stereotypes.

So why did you write in all the stereotypes?

    I hope you've enjoyed this spamfic. 

Not a single bit. I believe an apology would be appropriate.

Look, I believe racial issues could be very interesting fodder for fan
fiction. Some authors have sensitively handled some of the China/Japan
issues, and I think we're richer for it. But having Ranma running
around as an object of virility and asking for chicken is repulsive
and shows a deep lack of education. 

Thanks,

Colleen


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