Gee, Officer Krupke! Krupyou Delinquently

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 16 09:49:47 CST 2000




"The heat is on in Saigon
The girls are hotter 'n hell
One of these slits here
Will be Miss Saigon
God, the tension is high
Not to mention the smell
		---opening lyrics to Miss Saigon

Miss Saigon was only the last big Racist American Musical to
cause controversy.  It was designed to seduce, it floods the
senses with 3-D fantasy, war and sex, it follows a long line
of American misrepresentation of Asians, perpetuating a 
sick fantasy of Submissive "Orientals", self-erasing women,
and asexual, contemptible yellow men. Why would America
support this Racist Musical, this postmodern post-Vietnam
Butterfly? Why?

If Frenesi is controlled by Brock Vond, what is P saying
about Vietnam. Why is Frenesi attracted to men in Uniform?
Her Mother? The MP, the boot in the face fascist? 

SNOWBOY: Ya see, cops believe everything they read in the
paper.

ACTION: To them we ain't human. We're cruddy juvenile
delinquents. So that's what we give 'em.


http://www.execpc.com/~suden/westside_story.html


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/krupke990610.html



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