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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Jeremy Lin Is: Successful Asian-American Basketball Star!

Written by Vickie Toro

Successful Asian-American Basketball Star?!

Last week, the sports world was overcome with Linsanity! New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin kicked major ass and proved to the world that he isn't just a bench-warmer.

And what did the very best, most reputable sports casters have to say on the matter? A number of things that would have been flattering, were they not inexplicably more focused on the fact that the break-out basketball star is Taiwanese-American.

It's time to break from those pesky Asian stereotypes, friends! Time to respect Lin as a basketball all-star, rather than an Asian basketball player!

JLIN1FOB

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Vickie Toro

Comediva writer and performer Vickie Toro graduated from USC with degrees in I Don’t Know How to Do Practical Things Like Math and Maybe I Should’ve Listened to My Mother (i.e. Cinema-Television Critical Studies and Narrative Studies). She spends her time thinking about deep things, getting distracted by not-deep things, and then gigglesnorting.

To comfort her, Vickie's dad, a retired colonel with a heart of gold, emails articles about successful shy comedians. To make her feel worse, her mother, a Korean with the heart of an ox, tells her how much money computer scientists like Jon, Vickie’s ex-beard, are making. Then Vickie impersonates her, which isn’t really rebellion because her mother says Vickie owes her a “Jagooah” (Jaguar). In short, Vickie loves everything about comedy: the joy, the laughter, the women, etc. But, just in case, she’s trying to find a way to make Jane Lynch her suga-mama.

Oh yeah, Vickie's also the star of Comediva's web series, "Mommy Says."