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RACISM Recently I have been in situation and have been noticing more and more racism towards the "look alike" of middle eastern descendant and Asian (Indian). It has increased ever since the bombing of 9/11, but I'm not getting into that. It just happens that its related/increased since then. This past weekend, I was in central Jersey where there are more "colored" people then where I live (In south Jersey). So what happened was, we were going to Target and we were driving around looking for a parking spot, and we saw a car pulling out so we signaled it; at the same time we saw another car pulling towards the same spot but we didn't see any signal or anything. So as soon as the car pulled out we pulled in. As we're walking out the car, this lady is yelling at us out of her car; and she said "you people don't belong in this country", I turned around walked up to her and cussed her out, and then she wanted to pull her club out, and all the other Bs. Then we just went into the store, and we realized what if she does some damage on the car so we went out and she was waiting as soon as she saw us she drove away. Today I was checking my e-mail, and usually I get party/promotion e-mails for parties and stuff. Well today the subject is a bit different. It read "APOLOGIES FOR LAST FRIDAY @ EUGENE" I'll post the e-mail here so it's easier to read instead of me explaining everything. This is addressed to all loyal patrons of our events and those who took the time out to RSVP, and show up in the rain for the event that was scheduled to be held at Eugene this past Friday night, June 14th, 2002. On behalf of all team members, DJs, and YIP door staff, we would like to sincerely apologize for the disaster that occurred last Friday at Eugene. In a never ending effort to continue to bring venues that our esteemed South Asian Professional following desires, after being the FIRST to hold events at world class venues (Tavern On the Green, Russian Tea Room, Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, Saci, Ohm, etc.) we strove to once again go the EXTRA MILE to bring you an exclusive event at Eugene. It turns out, like many of you found out that night, we discovered THE HARD WAY, Eugene's RACIST DOOR POLICY. From the second we arrived, we were mistreated, our door staff was mistreated, and our DJs were mistreated - all because of our ethnic origin. When our people had arrived, they were informed BLATANTLY by EUGENE DOOR STAFF AND MANAGEMENT that "IF YOU ARE HERE FOR THE YIP INDIAN PARTY, GET OFF THE LINE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT GETTING IN!" This is not consistent with the freedoms and liberties of the country we live in - the same country that many of our families have worked hard to emigrate to, in order to give us a better life. Pending a legal investigation of the situation, we are urging all South Asians and all "people of color" to boycott Eugene based on its racist beliefs, practices, and profiling. It is a known fact that South Asians have had a long-standing affinity towards this venue. Many of us have frequented it from time to time, and it's about time we stopped funneling OUR HARD EARNED MONEY to keep in business an establishment that has no appreciation or gratitude for it. We will be hosting a COMPLIMENTARY OPEN BAR EVENT WITH APPETIZERS AND A BUFFET within the next couple of weeks to make this up to all of you. Again we want to sincerely apologize for what happened, which was through no fault of ours, and do what's right to make amends. Please join us for our GRAND RETURN to the SACI NIGHTCLUB, where we have COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE DOOR, for our "Summer Luau - Part II," this Friday June 21st, the FIRST OFFICIAL DAY OF SUMMER. Your hosts, Young Indian Professionals - NY "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world..." - Mohandas K. Gandhi My Theory: Based on what I have learned and seen, I strongly believe that it hasn't changed much only that there are more colored people and there is more racism then when there was only black and white. Before it was Black and White, everyone knows the history/story. We now live in a country with many different ethnic, background, race, color, and religion. My friend and I were discussing this one-day, and she happens to mention that, now a day's racism is seen from a different perspective. Where as before it was only white, black and Hispanic. Today we have Middle Eastern (ME), Asian, etc. It has gotten to the point where white, black and Hispanic are the inferiority and Asian, ME, other are the minorities and we're seen as immigrants and stuff. It has taken the heat of the Black and Hispanic and moved towards the ME, Asians, and others. Since the 9/11 is has increased even more, that every "brown colored" person is looked at differently. To put it into simple words I suppose that's the human way, to see, hate, learn, and like (or in other cases hate even more)

.:: Day well spent ::. I can't complaint this weekend; it was not as bad as some of the previous weekend. Friday I was working all day, Saturday I worked most of the day, (ok so far the weekend isn't all that cracked up to be), but Sunday was a good day. Started out with, waking up early (8:30am) after getting ready and heading out, we went to Philly to the NBA Hoop it up Tournament by the 1st Union Center, where my friend Mike was participating in the Tournament. When we got there the game had recently begun, and the score was 11-4 (Mike's team had 4 pt.) as the game went out Mike's team started catching up, and next thing I know it was tied up 15-15 and it was the end of the game, so it turned out to be a draw. Finally they convinced the referee, to go into overtime. The other team did a do or die shot and missed, Mike's team got the ball and finished the game. (I have pictures, but I can't post them here, cuz I can't upload them onto the blogger, but I might post them via Angelfire.com) After that was over we hung out there participating in contests, one of the 1st contest I participated in was "Tobacco is Wacko", where the Backboard of the hoop is wack (bent & deformed) and you had to make shot in using the backboard. I missed the 1st few shots, because I had to get used to the backboard, then finally I scored 2-3 (10 pointers) and 2 (20 pointers) I think. I got a shirt that reads, "Tobacco is wacko". Then we went to another area where you would have a court with obstacle and you have to go around avoiding or going behind and trying to make the shot, where you had to make all the shots in to win something (I missed all the shots). There were other cool fun things to do, which we did, and then I had planned to pick up my parent's form the Airport (they were coming back from London). We had some time to kill, so we decided to go into the city. We drove around and finally ended up near Penn's Landing (we parked 4th St & Market). We walked and we got there, there was a ship parked there (I know that's not the right terminology); but you get the idea; and so we went in for the tour, some interesting stuff, such as there is No alcohol & sex allowed on the ship (note to self: never join the navy)(more pic). Finally we got done and headed to pick up my parents, we got there and came home. My mom got us some goodies, such as candy (best candies), keychains (Eiffel tower), souvenirs, food, Mango's from India (which you can't find here), etc. My parents went on a tour after the wedding they attended in London; they went to Paris and saw the Eiffel tower, River de Paris, Birthplace of Michangelo's painting, Arc De Triomphe, Notre Dame, and some other places I can't remember. I know most of this, because I watched the video they taped during the tour before i went to bed. The Fight In other news, Tyson got his ass kicked, I saw the whole fight, and through the preview it appeared Tyson was going claim the victory. I still went for the underdog, and placed my money (not literately) on Lennox, As the fight went on, I thought Tyson was going to make a quick/strong move on Lennox which would finish the fight, but Lennox kept Jabbing him and wearing him out, and finally in round 8 Tyson was down, bleeding from both eyes and nose. It took James Douglas 11, round to knock Tyson down, Evander Holyfield 10 round and Lennox only 8. Is Tyson's carrier heading down to retirement? After the fight had ended, I realized that the fight could have been rigged, there is no way Tyson took it the way he took those hit and did nothing in return, not that it mattered to me, I was going for Lennox. NBA Another sad loss for the New Jersey Nets, I didn't bother watching the whole game, (I was busy watching the Pair/wedding video), Though I did catch the 1st quarter, when Nets started to lose by 5, and when I came back to the game which was in 4th quarter, when Nets were actually winning by 7 points. As the 4th quarter went toward the end of the game, Nets had lost the Lead and were down by 4points in the last minute, they managed to come back to 2 points, but lost at the buzzer as Jason kidd tried to make the last 3 pointer to tie the game. That is 3-0 Lakers.

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