The only thing real about you is your green eyes, my bro-tha.

Show: A Different World

Episode: Ms. Understanding (1991)

Super duper senior Shazza Zulu (Gary Dourdan) tries to call out Kim Reese (Charnele Brown) for dating white Matthew.

Start scene at 6:52

Shazza Zulu: If we as Hillman men don't treat our women right, they'll go to somebody white. Kim Reese did.

Kim Reese: You pseudo intellectual, with a pseudo African name, spouting pseudo philosophy about a whole lot of nothing. In fact, the ONLY thing that's real about you is your green eyes, my bro-tha.

Some Girls. My Life in a Harem.

Dear Readers,

I'm moving over some old (as far back as 2009) posts from the main EIRIC™ site to here. Reason: I'm going with a different direction for the front page. Please feel free to take a look and provide your feedback.

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Introducing Jillian Lauren, author of the Some Girls memoir about her time spent in Brunei as a Harem girl.

Jillian is the wife of Weezer member Scott Shriner. She and Scott adopted Tariku, the most happy little boy (check him out on the drums) we’ve ever seen, from Ethiopia.

Source: 
http://www.jillianlauren.com/blog/?tag=tariku-shriner 

To purchase her book: www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452296315?ie=UTF8&tag=evinanin-20

Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry - End of the Road

Dear Readers,

I'm moving over some old (as far back as 2009) posts from the main EIRIC™ site to here. Reason: I'm going with a different direction for the front page. Please feel free to take a look and provide your feedback.

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Gabriel Aubrey has confirmed that he and actress Halle Berry have split after four years, and daughter Nahla, together.

For more details: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36887536/ns/today-entertainment/#ixzz0mjnIBaLz

Why is there no looting in Japan? aka Why are the Japanese so much more civilized than the barbarians of African ancestry?

A recent CNN article poses the question Why is there no looting in Japan? in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes and tsunami.

The article juxtaposes the behavior of the Japanese with that of the Haitians who also faced a devastating earthquake, and the Americans who faced the hurricane Katrina. The author asks people to weigh in on why it happened in Haiti and Katrina and not Japan. 

Some of the responses that are indicative of what little progress we've made in race relations are noted below:

Kim:
Because Japanese culture, unlike all other modern cultures, is based primarily on honor and dignity. Unlike our Katrina disaster, the Japanese don't see this as an opportunity to steal everything in sight. The so-called civilized world can learn much from the stoic Japanese. 

Natasha:
The Japanese are resourceful, innovative and disciplined people with a great sense of national pride. While they also have criminals and felons, it is not quite in comparison to the sleaze balls we have in our streets. It was disgusting to watch these scum bags loot stores in New Orleans during Katrina when they should have helped their fellow citizens in need. While watching the devastation in Japan is heart wrenching, it is so refreshing to see the civility of people within the calamity they are facing.

We have a theory of our own. 

EIRIC:

Maybe there's no looting in Japan because they have enjoyed a very prosperous economy for years and very few of their citizens know and understand what it means to live without food on a daily basis - even in the absence of a natural disaster or any other large scale emergency.

We're always interested interested in answering social science questions and hearing the perspective of others, but not when they're inflammatory just for the heck of it.

All photos courtesy of Google and CNN.