In other words, (a) her degree is as useless as boobs on a boar; and (b) she needed a bunch of college professors to tell her what it means to be of Asian descent…what, she wasn’t smart enough to know who she was?

Oh, I just noticed this nugget from Albano’s employer, FSRN:

The financially-strapped Pacifica Foundation has cut its funding to FSRN by more than $13,100 a month. This is a devastating blow. We could soon be off the air without your help.

Now I see why she hates Ms. Malkin so much. Ms. Malkin has managed to succeed in today’s media, while Leilani has failed miserably. Leilani is about to be unemployed, while Michelle makes a nice living providing a service that people enjoy.

According to Leilani’s “logic” (and I use that word loosely), being a “real” Asian must mean…being a total loser. Needless to say, I disagree.

This Lailanie Albano – all I can say is you are a national embarrassment of Filipinos.

Joy said:
Purplepeep & Happyscrapper

Oofda, Ishda, Feeda!

Ya, I know bout dem, you betcha.

Yoy -
Ya, dat dere sounds like yore one of dem people who knows how dey talk in Min-nah-sooo-tah.

Or, to put it as our Mom would say using a more “colorful” Swedish term (since this is a thread about color) “Fie fan!”.

…see how much damage you have done to the barking moonbats on the Left with your recklessly crafted pieces.

There. Fixed.

Oofda, Ishda, Feeda!

Ya, I know bout dem, you betcha.

Being called a coconut most of my adult life.
Brown on the outside and white on the inside. (According to them)

What does this mean for them? They can’t stand hippies, hate Liberals, and actually listen to what I say! Does this mean I need to switch parties too? Should I give them up for adoption?

Help me!! I know not what I have done!!

Do these people understand the definition of the word “hypocrisy”?

Most of the students in the class were Latino (actually, ALL of the students save one were Latino), and I asked them to respond to the article (from which I’d removed your photo) and write a retort to the author.

Every student in the class–except for the one student who was Chinese–berated you for being racist, ethnocentric, etc., and some even called for your head.

When I showed them your picture and your bio, they couldn’t believe you were “like them.” They automatically had assumed your were white and “a bigot.” When they learned your heritage was filipina, they were dumbfounded.

The next lesson we had dealt with preconceived notions of race and ideology.

By the way, the curriculum provided me with latitude to expose the students to language in any way I saw fit. In other words, ELD classes were a time-waster because the district wouldn’t put these kids into regular academic classes, since they “didn’t know enough English.”

Disservice.

Leilani, I have some bad news for you! Thousands of your “kababayans” do think for themselves and you are the epitome of the radical left that subscribed to the idea that big government is the answer to society’s problems, making everyone a conformist and a parrot like yourself.

Michelle, as a Pinoy, and proudly wears my skin color, and a U.S. Navy retiree, I can honestly say that your accomplishments in your line of work is exemplary and serves well as a model to others, irregardless of their ethnicity. You are successful because of who you are as a person, your values, and upbringing, and not because you are a Pinay (you just happened to be one) nor a recipient of the “entitlement dole outs” or Affirmative Action plans.

The bottom line is this, poor Leilani, a failure in her own right, lost her true identity as a Pinay and became a full-blown conformist, while Michelle, through hard-work, traditional family values, respect for others, determination and independent thinking, which by the way are typical Pinay characters, is a success, adored and respected by tens of thousands of real people.

Michelle, you make us (Pinoys) proud and we’re with you a 110% and I will personally defend you against the likes of Gerardo Rivera, Leilani Albano and their minions. As a community activist and leader of a Filipino organization in Jacksonville,Florida, you are more than welcome to visit us at anytime, unlike Leilani, who is a “persona non-grata” in my list.

happyscrapper said:
On September 15th, 2008 at 11:29 pm, purplepeep said:
I sometimes wonder that too until spring comes and it is so great to watch everything come to life. Summer is amazing and fun. Fall is gorgeous and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Winter does get long, but there is also a certain stark beauty in it that I love too. Maybe us Norwegians have a different view of winter than the Swedes? Or it could be because my husband does all the snow blowing. You betcha!

Yup, the Autumns and Springs can be awesome, Scrapper! Long winter? You must know the old joke and it’s variations: MN has two seasons – Winter and July. Or Winter and “Road Repair”.

No, Swedes love winter, too, as do most Scandahoovian-types. I’m just an odd bird that way. But I also enjoy Winter’s stark beauty – I just do it from indoors on the other side of thw window, lol. The complex where I live does all the snow blowing, which is fine since I don’t share your Mister’s joy of wrestling with the white stuff. (Tho as a kid I did make a few dollars going out with shovel in hand after a snowfall.)

But I think you’re on to something about you Norskies being “different” from folks of Swedish blood. However, ya don’t wanna get me started on a lifetime’s worth of handed-down Norwegian-jokes! Well….I can’t deny myself the joy of just one:
“Did you know that the Swedes have the largest zoo in the world? They built a fence around Norway.”