Not only is it taboo to be gay and Muslim, it’s illegal to film in Mecca.
Parvez Sharma talks about his new documentary here in this story I wrote for NBC News.com
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Emil Guillermo: ICYMI–Here’s Rupert Jee’s greatest hits. But are we laughing with him or at him? And for good measure, some Foo Fighters to end an era.
Is it sad to see an Asian American man subjected to this?
Or is it just good, clean fun?
Read my other posts on the issue and on Letterman here on the amok blog.
And what the heck.
Here was my favorite part of the final show.
The finale.
Emil Guillermo: David Letterman had his own Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebration this week.
Usually it’s some government office kind of event. But he honored his Asian American employees this week.
That’s what you get when you retire during heritage month.
See this clip of Asian American legend Connie Chung “singing” on Letterman in 1988.
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Emil Guillermo: What if we had instant replay for the “games” we play in real life? The example of Kennesaw State.
It started in football. But now in most sports, the replay is the insurance policy against bad judgment.
So why not in life?
I’ve long advocated taking video of anything that might have the hint of sparking some transgression, just to keep all participants smiling for the camera.
But here’s an instance recently at Kennesaw State, a public university outside of Atlanta, where a white administrator clearly has little patience for a black student.
Rude advisors at Kennesaw . Smh pic.twitter.com/ugcX4gnIsp
— KB (@IamKB_) May 14, 2015
She’s on leave while the school investigates.
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