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...asks Lau Nai-keung, a Hong Kong journalist with ties to Beijing. "People here can express their feelings." Indeed, when the city's chief executive, Donald Tsang, recently downplayed the anniversary to legislators during a legislative council debate, he was met with fierce opposition and forced to apologize. When Ayo Chan, a student leader at Hong Kong University, suggested pro-democracy protesters were to blame for the 1989 crackdown, angry students moved to vote him out of office. And, unlike the uprising in Tiananmen Square 20 years ago, Fan's Times Square protest unfolded peacefully, unfettered by the government. Hong...
...Ayo says, how far can we take this conceit anyway before it becomes meaningless? She suggested "a list of stuff half black people half like...
...called Damali Ayo, a black social critic and artist who wrote the book How to Rent a Negro - a satire inspired by the same sentiments as another thing that white people like (#14), Having Black Friends. She thinks the blog, oddly, represents a form of social progress. "I'm really glad that white people are stepping up to critique white culture, because in general white people like to deny that there is such a thing as white culture," Ayo says. And she sort of made me feel better about being enmeshed in that culture. "Stuff white people like is what...
...about two minutes.I was reunited with television for my last week in Paris, and I spent a lot of time watching MTV France—which, shockingly, actually played videos. Paris had destroyed my pretensions to the point where I didn’t mind watching “Ayo Technology” six times an hour.And a shocking thing happened. After T-Pain’s “Buy You A Drank,” the video for “D.A.N.C.E.” came on. The visuals were glorious: hipsters in ironic computer-animated T-shirts...
...inclusive, face-pressed-to-the-glass side of consumerism that takes precedence; after all, everyone gets to go window shopping. Also, Ye’s extremely attractive lady-friend is apparently called Angel “Lola Luv” Fershgenet. 50 Cent “Ayo Technology (ft. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland)” Dir. Joseph Kahn The sleaziest of the bunch. Fiddy and the Timbertwins, much like the cast of “American Pie,” are on a mission to score, but unlike Stifler & Co., they have many, many gadgets at their disposal. The video...