Asians Against Ignorance !

To:  Advertisers in Details Magazine

Recently, the climate of Asian bashing has reached an all time high, and an all time low. Our Asian identity is being mocked by ignorant writers, filmmakers, editors and others in the media industry who refuse to recognize us as people, but as objects rather; martial arts, Chinese food, gongs and bonsai trees. We are not objects. We are individuals from countries all over the world. We are intelligent professionals that will not accept a lower status, merely because stereotypes are so deeply ingrained in (American) society. I am asking every single Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Malaysian, Thai, Indonesian, Samoan, Balinese to sign this, and to ask everyone they know, regardless of race, to come together and punish Details magazine for their outrageous and horribly racist piece entitled "Gay or Asian" in the 2004 April Issue, part of an ongoing series. View it in full at http://www.koarecords.com/details_asian.jpg or http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~dhl1/gay1.gif

We are not asking for a public apology. That will not correct this. We are going to crumble Details magazine altogether by going after every advertiser in the magazine starting from April 2004 and boycott every single product they sell. This petition will provide the advertisers evidence of how badly their sales can be affected. The more names on the list, the more power we command. Let's send this petition around the world and back again. Let's get 50,000 names on this list. All we ask is a few minutes of your time to send an email to everyone in your addressbook or friendster.

We are going to disassemble Details magazine from the ground up, starting with their advertising money. We will not be quiet. We are going to make history, take this magazine down and show what Asians are capable of. We will make sure that Whitney Mcnally is never published ever again.

We will never let another racist piece of work aid in sales, fill up a page, or win an Academy Award. Sign this petition if you are ashamed every time you see William Hung on TV. Sign if you're a minority. Sign if you aren't ignorant. Sign if you want to stand up for something you believe in, and are willing to boycott the companies that support this racism.

Sign this petition if you are sick of being treated as a second rate citizen, when you and I both know the world is ours.

Thank you so much for reading this. Please help end this injustice

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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