(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.







Now that is one heck of a rant! Agreed about the sensitivity, especially understanding what discrimination feels like.
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I sure do like to rant sometimes but hopefully within reason. I get upset when I see mainstream media getting away with creepy messages; it almost feels subliminal like we’re supposed to accept that the presented ignorance is ok. As a writer who advocates for marginalized people and silenced voices, I like to get up on my soapbox…even if no one’s listening! Thank you for your supportive comment Cubby and for understanding my intent.
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People with the power of mass media, with the attendant power of influence, carry a heavy social responsibility that they should not neglect. I think it is fantastic that you are a voice for those who cannot or will not speak. It shows great compassion. 🙂
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This is abso-freakin’-lutely amazing…! Can’t recall how many times i have lost my mind trying to furiously debate with a fellow av club member on why it is just ethically and morally wrong to let a white actor portray an Asian character when there is no dearth of talent among actors of Asian descent or Asian actors. Had that debate for Dr. Strange, had it for Ghost in the shell, and oh my goodness, had it too many times for Iron Fist for it’s blatant cultural appropriation! And all my discussions amounted to zilch and I swore off talking about it on stupid internet forums and AV club site. But this…. More please! It felt so good reading it… I felt my own voice in it. Thank you for sharing this.
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Thank you for advocating for authenticity! Many don’t even notice that something’s wrong which is super disturbing, as if we’ve been brainwashed. All the things you mentioned, I feel the same way, the yellow face ruins what could’ve been a masterpiece, films like Breakfast at Tiffany’s… so blatantly insulting. Thanks again for understanding and being a voice of reason!
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Great work Judy. Through the free verse, I sense underlying frustration arising from the theme explored. The poetic voice sure looks revolted. It makes me remember ‘The White House’ by McKay. There’s a module at University called America, Race and Culture. I am planning to do it. Perhaps I’ll get a clearer view of the situation and we can get to discuss those stereotypes and racist things. You sure know how to stir my curiosity! And above all, so keep the fight going and don’t give up. My full support to it.
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Thank you, well the crazy racist in the current White House in the US is stirring up racial violence like no one has in awhile. Racism in America was hidden away but always present. I think there’s a chance to change this, I think many people are waking up to inequality. I hope so.
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