http://www.vulture.com/2015/01/eddie-huang-fresh-off-the-boat-abc.html

Very much related to the convos surrounding JF's media representations post and that Mindy Show critique

there's an NPR interview about that show as well

How genuine is this? Is he just trying to distance himself from it a bit now cause he sees/knows how watered down it is- and his fans won't approve?

Eddie is a hustler. He knew what signing a network tv deal meant.

Take the money, never have to run.

the end of the piece is what made me believe his gripes with the process

meh... fuck that shit.

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

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In the back of my mind I'm like we HAVE to start somewhere
In the end he came to understand that
There are barely any references if this show makes it on the map it'll only be the second blip in over a damn decade okay third
I like Sullivan and son

It'll be fine
It'll be something
Better than nothing and I'm here for it
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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

and where it finished

the analysis was present

some of Eddie's lingo was a bit over the top though

lol
i can relate

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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

in print, at times though, it becomes grating

no hate, personal taste

i love what that MFer is doing all around. I was pissed when I went to NY last June and didn't hit up Boahaus

this whole thing of appropriated oppression is type crazy to me

note to "them" (those that do.that.thing): your struggle doesn't have to be viewed through the lens of mine to be valid

you kinda end up diminishing (me) mine buy shoving yours into the mold trying to invoke what mine does

*sigh*

__________ AIN'T the new b/Black. it just ain't.

that's ok. yours can count too.

to the author of the article: EFF-YEW and your pseudo-clever little footnotes...

too funny

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because one, few authors make GOOD cash off their books selling, so if your book or short story gets optioned for 3-6 years for anywhere from 20-60k how you gunna say no?

two, problem is once your agent signs off on the option the author has very little say so, if any, in how the material is presented in film or tv. Ursula le Guinn just wrote about this in Gawker in relation to how SyFy fucked her book up in terms of how she saw race.

An author some where is gunna have to fight this legally to set i precedent in a way, because right now, most stories will sound like Eddie's here

i respect eddies hustle but something about him rubs me the wrong way

http://insidetv.ew.com/2015/01/14/fresh-off-the-boat-panel/

and after reading some of the OP's link, he sounds punchable too.

I find his whole steez irksome. There's the whole over-the-top cultural appropriation bit (he's not an urban Asian kid from NY or Cali). There's the privilege angle (family owned local chain of steakhouses, went to law school, flamed out in law, fam set him up with restaurant).

He plays up the child of immigrants thing, but he's the poster child for privilege.

what's he appropriating? hip hop? blackness?

seems exactly how most kids from multiracial periphery suburbs turnout

are kids from privileged background not allowed to have critiques of race, power, gender and privilege?

are kids from priv bg's not allowed to create "cutting edge" cultural productions?

i get you you're saying, but the specifics of what you addressed threw me off

but Huang's speech and mannerisms seem affected and overly black. I've met a lot of Asian hip-hop heads, and most of them don't come off like Huang (who grew up on a cul-de-sac in the Orlando suburbs). Those who do, tend to be products of inner city neighborhoods, making their personas seem more authentic...to me at least. There's a level of "street" in Huang's persona that comes off as artifice. I'm sure that's who he really is, but he appropriated that. He wasn't raised in it.

but, again a place like Orlando, IN THE 90s, is producing Black, White, Latino, and Asian youth like Eddie

if he's appropriating "urban" Blackness, which he is, so are the Black kids in his community. It's a slippery theoretical slope to walk

yet for me, his piece and his work, is about expanding the racialized narrative of America beyond Black and White

>yet for me, his piece and his work, is about expanding the
>racialized narrative of America beyond Black and White


I like what he tries to do, it's his persona I take issue with with. Now you've got me thinking; is there a such thing as Asian-American culture (or Korean-American, Chinese-American, whatever)? Moving beyond the black/white dichotomy, there's definitely a Mexican-American culture.

im not saying his experience is inauthentic, i feel its def a persona he puts on when its convenient.
as much as i dont like roy choi, i feel like he's a lot more real than huang.

I mean it cant stand David Choe's stchtick but I love his art, so we all have some one I guess

Haha