Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:58:56 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Texas Southern University marching band in To^kyo^
	<16DEC199219070119@vxcrna.cern.ch>

Friends, 

        first I would like to apologize for the tone of my last post and
the profanity! I lost control and those Andrews Computers gives me a bad
"inch" if you know what I mean. Please accept. Thank you! 
       
   I still can not understand what the comotion is about this. You all
live in America. There may have been a time in your lives where you
stole something,
cheated someone, took what didn't belong to you. Sure you did, your just
in a state of denial! But, I don't want to waste time on that. I have an
idea. But, first, I would like to praise the policeman for their
level-headed approach to the situation. They are not like the American
White cops. The Rodney King as a matter of fact America has a long
history of police brutality against the African-American( at this point
I will refer to white Americans as Euro-Americans)a long, long long,
history. Why to day four policeman got fired for the beating to death of
an African-American. They beat him the death with a a Police flashlight.
Three "good ole boys" and a "token" going out for a good "ole monkey
slapping time"! This happened in Detriot, Mich. The victims name was
Mr. Green. The senerio was about the same. Black, speeding motorist,
"monkey slapping time"! But, America will be able to deal better with
this once the "new" Justice Department steps in. So, as it stands the
police force in Nippon has a far better record on their treatment of
young African-Americans. None of you Euro-Americans point out the
positive points:

(1) The youths gave back the stuff after reasoning with the officer(and,
I bet my bank account that these talks were like "father to son". I say
this because
no one when to jail. And, they recovered much of the stolen property.

(2) The institution(TSU, I don't like the way the fictious Dwight
joe{the the Chinese but grown in Nippon but came to America}described
this institution
)offered to pay the balance( and, I will write this institution suggesting that
the University(TSU) should offer to invite the shop owners to a guest stay at
the University's expense. Then that would give all the students the opportunity
to show what they can do. Rememeber, these were the Marching Band .
That's cool. But, I want to see the engineers, material scientist and
stuff like that). So, now through all this the racist were expose. They
said throw them in jail. And, they should be kicked out of school. One
of ya'll even had the gut to say that it was because they were black(in
so many words). But, the police and the Kind gentleman who owns the
store in L.A. are the intelligent around here.(I don't include myself
because I'm a ya' know) 


                    So, once again I have to go to that podium in my
mind's eye say that I have great respect for the officers who risk their
lives trying to explaining(Becuase, the rest of you{and, you know who
you are}are talkin' stuff
on a computer that you think has some great connection to the world.
AAh! Well, 
if you're the world(as the song/movie goes): Stop, I want to get off!( I
felt like I just walked into something there).