When Journalism Becomes Diversified

I'm not your journalist who comes around privileged and cannot be accepted as an American born here in this country I reside in although my uncles and father fought against the axis powers in the second world war. I do not speak for the corporate world but have on occasions exchanged conversations with anglo saxons. When I was on the tennis team way back when the Vietnam War was already down in history in progress or rather being fought as I saw no progress in that war. I was one of the first Chinese playing on a mostly all white tennis team my first year on the tennis team at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland the land of the champion Oakland A's baseball team where they won the World Series many times across the Bay from the five time Super Bowl Forty Niners but at that time didn't happen yet while the white kids spat on me making fun of my ethnicity commenting on how my father looked exactly like Mao Tse Tung the much despised communist dictator and womanizer and anti Christian the world has seen. Being an ethnic minority was not easy and often I would use my last name and hide pretending I was Japanese after all the Japanese made good Hondas and they were popular too. And so Ann Frank hid where she lived in Nazi occupied land never showing herself publicly while I hid my identity and would impersonate a Japanese American. Nevertheless I was a marked man looking over my shoulders for being of the wrong ethnic type among the privilege white race. My underlying message is that a good journalist should be representative from all ethnic backgrounds and not just from the privileged white race. When one cannot see a male Asian face on television in the entertainment industry one might ask where did they go? Just this year I argued before a census taker that the Japanese Americans during the second World War in America were rounded up and put in relocation camps when their names revealed they were Japanese and automatically found guilty by association. Would the American government throw me in jail as they had the Japanese if the motherland of China disagreed with issues in the United States? Although there are very few major league players in tennis with the exception of Michael Chang now retired as a player for some time where are any other players in major league tennis? I wasn't nearly enough of a good player to even think about playing pro but I knew who they and now that I'm turning more of a interest into tennis I see that Brad Gilbert is a commenter for a major television sport show. Tennis still lives for me although I had given it up to concentrate more on chess. But trust me I met him at the tennis courts and my former tennis partner and coach Ed Lopez never wanted to hear how I met up with Brad Gilbert at Davy's Tennis Stadium in Oakland. It was a challenge but I declined his offer to play a match. Back then he was a hot shot twelve year old young man a child prodigy if you ask me because he was good at that age and I knew it but didn't play for money or on bets. But he surprised us all within the local tennis community and became a ranked tennis pro later on in his life. I wrote him a letter a message telling him that China would enter the picture one day and would he be interested in any deals. Of course I was just spinning my wheels as we all are aware that any nation that can excel at the sport of tennis must be from a rich society for there is something to the old saying tennis is a rich man's sport. I will explain later. I've a new tennis racket which is endorsed by Djorkovic the world's number one ranked tennis player. But he doesn't use what he endorses not this Head model one I bought at Costco. Coming up next….what Andre Agassi told me over the air in regards to minority players. What I am driving at is this whole business of the color of our skin with which we as humans sport. There are many stories which attempt to explain the reasoning as to why there is this caste system with humans in regards to why it is thought one particular color to another is a superior human being than another. Yes I have heard of the book "Black Like Me" and no I am not about to call this blog "Yellow Like Me"