A UCLA female white student went on YouTube and posted the racially-charged video rant about "UCLA Asian students in the library" which went viral in blogosphere.
This largest University of California campus in Los Angeles, out of a ten-campus UC network of public universities in America's most populous and diverse state, consisting of over 35,000 students, 40% of whom are of Asian and Asian-American descent, has been at the cross-hair of major demographic seismic shift in the "yellowing" and browning" of California. With more Asian students enrolled, the culture wars over values, lifestyles, and taste have created much animosity bigotry, racism.
Her YouTube video created a firestorm in the internet, drawing many sensational and ingenious responses from many Asian youths, who used parody, dark humor, and ballads to excoriate and react to her ignorance and racial insensitivity.
This teachable moment about the power of the internet in leveling the playing field against racist white supremacist attacks demonstrates that with new technology, the dominance of the heretofore Western Anglo-white media gatekeepers are no longer supreme; and that there are ways to fight back, and fight back with creativity, ingenuity, and dark humor.
To illustrate, here's Alexandra Wallace, a UCLA political science white female student from Sacramento, who ranted and created a firestorm in the net.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9UK7XEBi3s
Here's an ingenious ballad created and posted by a talented young Asian musician, Jimmy Wong which posted in response to Ms. Wallace's attack. This has become a sensation in YouTube:
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/134827085/a-racial-quarrel-inspires-an-internet-balladeer
Here's another hilarious response from an Asian comic who used dark humor to underscore his displeasure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGpGoEMu2s&feature=related
Here's another ingenious creative response from another Asian youth using dark humor playing the role of a "yellow nerd" with a $ 300 electronic calculator who is a super-achieving "straight A student "which is absolutely hilarious :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKpf9YT4x8o&feature=related
The playing field is leveling out. White Hollywood and the White Supremacist world have been undermined and depleted by many creative Asian youths who are learning how to use new technology, dark humor, parody to circumvent and ingeniously circle around the media gatekeeping by using YouTube and the blogosphere.
Showing white racism, and baring its ludicruousness and ignorance, with surgical attacks, even with self-deprecating stereotypical humor, and racist caricaturizing, can sometimes be very effective, in fact more effective than a straight confrontational "mano a mano" counter-attack.
Ding Hao. Ding Hao. Touche. Magnifique. :-)
