chuckers <chuckersjp@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 21, 10:27 am, The 2-Belo <the2b...@msd.bigREMOVETHISlobe.ne.jp>

> Since he is proud of the fact that he has Japanese citizen ship now,
> he may not have
> a place to go back to without re-immigrating.  Assuming, of course, he
> gave up his
> US citizenship rather than trying to do dual citizenship (which
> probably wouldn't be allowed for him.)

Why not?

> One of Debito's sticking points on this campaign is that calling the
> character "Mr. James"
> is racist because you aren't supposed to call someone by their first
> name with "Mr." prefixed
> to it.  When someone pointed out that "James" could be a last name
> (and given that no
> other name appears to be associated with the character) he replied in
> comment that "James" wasn't
> known to be a last name.  When examles like "Jesse James" were pointed
> out, his comment
> and the original posted were edited into the memory hole, never to be
> seen again.

I actually saw him on TV once, and he pulled something like that. I pointed
out to my wife that he was wrong; since it was on Japanese TV, my wife
drew the obvious conclusion that I had no idea what I was talking about.

Mike