From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Thanks for the confidence
Date: 11 Oct 92 16:32:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.YeqASTm00Uh_E3PpQB
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Dear Peter, 

              Thank you for the gift of communication. You gave me great
hope and confidence. I have been up very late at night these days and I
only get a few hours of sleep in a couple of days now. I do what I do
because I feel that it is right. I didn't plan to come to Amerinca and
do all this. I came to America because of what I saw on T.V.. Insomania
and I even think that I may 
have a stomach aliment. I really want to finish this Masters Degree. My
Father has very much hope in me. But, do I care for him more when I see
the woman who is strung out on Rock and is asking me for trade. It is
horrible! In the last
year I have had about twenty young black brothers taken away from me.
And, it seems as though America don't give a mother-fuck. I'm hurt by
this. One guy stops for a minute to make sure I get on the right bus.
Next time I hear he's gone. Dead. For what? the Crack. I have never
seen, read, heard or dreamed about
this type of devastion in my life. This is fucked up! I don't care how
you say it. If I did not see it with my own eyes I would have never
believed this shit could be happening. The worst part isn't that life is
lost needlessly or the formation of a generation lost most likely on
crack or even the pain and suffering that left in it's wake but that the
very few that could do something
won't. What are me choices? Become insensative to what I know to be happening.
Stay in the confines of CMU's boundries and say fuck it! I find no
pleasure in judging the action of others anymore. I could what I'm into
if I wanted to. As I look around me at this moment, I see the the
Japanese-born Korean student who feels bad towards me because he
realizes that when is parents took on Japanese citizenship they had to
lose their Korean family name. so, I'm here and he indirectly hates me.
The same individual whom I eaten Spicy Pork with.(I love spicy pork and
ojinchigai and Kimnchee(sorry if I messed up the spelling). And the
whitegirl who can't accept no for an answer when she asks me to go to a
frat. party. There's Canh Huu. I like him. North Vietmanese by heritage.
I want to die in Vietnam. Well bro, take it light. Thanks for the
confidence it will go a long way. P.E. and all that. By the way, Public
Enemy's new Song/Album is Dope. And ,if/ when you're drinking a Forty
"remember the Brothers who ain't here"  for me. And most of all, study
hard and win. Don't fuck up! Peace Nigga!


                           By reading some of the comments on this forum
I see why I seem to be shocking. You all won't and don't want to get
into some of social injustices in Nihon like I am in here America
because you do give a care. Just like how the Japanese feel about the
Baraku situation and the many day to day problems that face Koreans,
Indians, blacks, Taiwanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese in Nihon. I come to
your country without the least bit of knowledge that I would get into
what I'm into and you go to look out for yourselves and those like you
only. Read what this blackboy is saying. I don't know him from jack shit
either. But I see that he and his high morality are more valuable to
Nihon than all ya'll fucking whiteboys put together. Ya'll ain't doing
nothing socially for my fucked-up country. Third generation Koreans
can't even vote. Listen to this young brother. If he was in beloved
Nihon he may not understand the Baraku problem but at least he'll be
able to express outloud, in public that that is wrong and unfair and
shouldn't be. And, I would even go as far as to say that given the right
tools he might even take on their struggle. Malcolm X did something for
this proud people that white America(99.9%) don't have. Tad was right
I'm the asshole. How do I expect you to care about the disadvantage in
Nihon when you only came to my country to make money. Or, to take
advantage of it's high educational oppurtunities and fuck everything
else. As long as you make a pretty Yen? YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS!