Poem: Yellow Face Rant

(I’ll preface to say this poem is an angry rant against racists not against “white people”. I also advocate for the rights of transsexuals, they are not my target).

Cloud Atlas in Yellow Face

Shame on the directors

The Wachowskis

Who used to be brothers

Why are you both so racist?

You’ve ruined the original

author’s gift and intent

Mitchell wrote a masterpiece

and you butchered it.

You’d think at least the director

Lana with her transgender edge

would know better.

Did she or didn’t she know

that parading whites as asians

in Yellow Face alien guise

is an insult to our lives?

We’ve already lived through

a lifetime of discrimination.

We’ve already been hostaged

with Ching Chong songs

jokes, taunts, spits, hits

harmless school bully fun.

We’ve already been brainwashed ugly

through conquerer media and propaganda.

What’s your true agenda Lana?

She used to be a man

so you’d think she’d understand

with an angry itch of sensitivity

to look deeper than a surface

shortcut summary

of how to represent

Asians with authenticity

not the lopsided angry

cat-eyed, curled,

filmic atrocity of what

racists think we look like

silicone thick eyelid flab

two fake prosthetic jabs

glued over the non-asian actors eyes

a rubber Halloween psycho mask

of Mandarin Chinese opera

or Madame Butterfly bullshit

that the white actors wore

with calm sell-out disgrace.

I hope all the participant’s careers

plummet to obscurity.

If you can’t do it right

Wachowskis you need to step aside

leave immediately.

We as a humanity don’t have

endless time to figure this out.

Racism needs to end now and forever.

We have to stand together

or we need to die out.

Apocalypse is here

god and devil is here in us,

don’t you understand?

Salvation depends on all of us

to wake up

demand justice for all

stop waiting for a rescue party

from god, allah, buddha.

Your savior is and lives

within your choices.

Wachowskis your fame died

decades ago

the only good Matrix

was the original.

Why’d you add greedy sequels

to a finished question?

You had to kill Trinity

and blind poor Neo?

Money old devil money got you

bought and sold

seeking out old gold

They bought your art

for dark blood honey.

If you can’t capture the genuine

If you can’t show truth with respect

Then get your fucking

Empire hands off my culture.

Pretending you’re an advocate

to my people that you have no clue about.

Poor Korean Doona Bae,

stuck in the Asian clone role

They even had her play

a Mexican woman

absolute ridiculousness.

I didn’t understand at first

in the film, her activist partner

the one who saved her

from becoming liquid soap

played by what’s his Sturgess face

was supposed to be her same race!?

They were both supposed

to be Koreans?!

omg

How was that possible?

With his Spock-like–

Fu Man Chu–

Charlie Chan mask?

Those plastic jaundiced eyes

weren’t an accident

I think your disrespectful depiction

is full of racial biased sickness.

You’re has-been siblings

Andy and Lana

inter-generationally

entitled has-beens.

You used to be The Man

literally Lana

or are you still the oppressor

in liberal disguise?

Under wild make up,

false eye lashes

and fuchsia cherry pink

punk clown hair

you’re still

a phoney

feminist wanna be.

Your Jupiter Ascending’s

gmo skater puppy love story

was not enough

to pull your careers

out of the rut

of your but

your karma’s up.

Past fans like I was

are now your sworn enemies.