As a Chinese-American woman, an NBA superfan and a fan of Jeremy Lin, I fully appreciate Takeline's first episode about Asian-American racism. I was already on top of Jeremy Lin's career and his encounters with racism from articles, so I enjoyed hearing Jeremy speaking about his experience. I wish Jason and Renee great success with your show, and wish Jeremy a return to the glory of Linsanity.
The Lin interview is informative for anyone who wants to understand the Asian American immigrant experience, the lack of a feeling of belonging and wanting to be seen as who each of us actually are. Attacks on the Asian American community are hateful and unacceptable, I'm so glad this was brought up to bring more awareness to it. Great first episode, Jason and Renee!
Jeremy Lin is one of the most important players and we are fortunate to have him in the basketball world. Aside from giving us one of the top sports moments in history with Linsanity, The guy has been a class act outside of the courts and has always been a great rolemodel for many. Him using his platform to give voice for the unheard is brave and I am sure he is inspiring many Asian Americans and people from all backgrounds and colors. If Jeremy Lin does not get a Hall Of Fame nomination for his efforts then I hope he knows that his fans will always appreciate him for what he done for us. Except for that haircut while he was with the Charlotte Hornets. You kicked ass taking us to that playoffs tho.
Jeremy Lin is great! So glad he's so comfortable talking like this. Not that I'm in a place to give advice but questions that start with "talk about" seem difficult for subjects to answer. Love the show and all 3 of you.
Jeremy Lin journey to fame is a tough undertaking , from constantly assigned to sit by the side line in most of the matches to finally get to prove his talent in court through personal hard work itself is an inspiration to many young players. Hope his ' Linsanity' live on , really enjoy his take on racism in USA.
I appreciate your efforts to speak out and educate us on the Asian experience. My heart goes out to the Asian people. I'm Native American and I support you. I wish you the best. Thank you.
This was an insightful interview - and I lived Linsanity as a fan - his thoughts on race, sports and fame were really engaging - Takeline is going to be great!!
Soooo good! Not that I didn’t expect that. Jeremy Lin needs to be a recurring guest he is definitely natural at this. Love it want more!! Renee and Jason you guys killing it!!!
My guy since 8th grade!! I remember when he had that "magical" run with the Knicks and felt so much pride seeing someone who kinda looked like me making it in the NBA. I wasn't super into basketball then, but he was a bright spot as a Korean American who went to a predominantly white school too.
Thank you for this first episode! I especially appreciated the support of the girls’ basketball team and Jeremy’s perspective. I found the highlighting of anti trans moves really on point too!
Lin is a true class. look at the donations he made over the years to organizations helping kids with colors, students with financial needs, and people with serious illnesses.
You look at the team rosters and it's absurd he's not in the NBA. Many of his teammates over the years are kicking around, as are players that he's torched. It's ridiculous.
Now we asian must refuse to buy brands again Asian . If these brand do not post on social media specific support Asian community, we must stop purchasing items from those brands who do not support Asian community. If they do , they must post on social media. Black lives matters so are asian lives matters
Props to Jeremy Lin. One of my favorite athletes. This is why Ethnic Studies should be implemented in the public schools immediately! The sincere ignorance of people of color’s culture and history is atrocious, disheartening and dangerous.✌🏾❤️🙏🏾
The immigrant experience is so different from the black experience. Us asians/our parents came here knowing the country is mostly white, and despite the slurs, bullying, socio-economic obstacles, etc. we love this country and for the most part, our lives are better than if we had stayed. To shield us from these more negative aspects, we have resisted assimilation and have had assimilation been resisted(Jeremy's experience is a great example). We have found strength in aggregating among ourselves, starting our own businesses to build up our communities. I have always felt black people should do this, but it is extremely depressing that they have tried and had these attempts literally burned to the ground and had the soil salted by systemic racism. However, with the changing times, I feel these efforts should be reignited. To the black folks out there, I know it's unfair to ask you to seclude yourself in a country that you have literally built with the blood, sweat, and tears of your ancestors, a country that continually puts you down and destroys any chance of independence politically, culturally, and economically despite your ties to this land predating most white people, but what other options are there? It's not PC, and even the least racist white people among us will disagree, but integration as we have tried has not and will not work in any reasonable time frame. We need Chubbtowns, Detroits, and Black wall streets as franchises across the country, hopefully built up by reparations in the form of tax cuts, etc. and the LeBrons, Shaqs, and Magic Johnson's need to use their funds and businesses to fund these communities.
This is an extremely ignorant comment. I'm too tired to point out all of the reasons why, but you're oversimplifying the political determinants that opened doors for Asian Americans, the ways in which Asian American have directly benefitted from antiblackness (not just pure meritpcracy), and the fact that there are plenty of Nigerian immigrants who have been just as successful (and collectively more successful) than Asian immigrants as a whole. You sound so ignorant and extremely condescending. Are you even actually an American?? Because clearly you don't know American history.
@@RW-ir2bq I understand taking my comment as an oversimplification, but really I just homed in on one specific example of the difference between the asian american and black experience. I didn't mention meritocracy at all?? Obviously asians benefit from "positive" stereotypes, I have experienced them myself. If you need me to clarify the specific points I'm making I can, but I'm not tryna write a thesis here. I'm curious what the point of mentioning Nigerian success stories was? People of all backgrounds have found success in this country, but asians as a minority group have the highest per capita income statistically. I wasnt saying that our success was completely attributable to our culture(in a country that's 61% white, you need white people to make money) but our predilection for focusing inwards on our community was a significant contributing factor. Like I said, the ability to preserve our culture, values, and communities as well as separate them from white america slightly is not a luxury black americans have. African immigrants do have this ability as they have a history and culture from their native lands not entrenched in slavery, but they also have to deal with being prejudged on their skin color. Again, my original comment was just a rambling thing that was all over the place, but tldr for you: Asian-American mindset= white people are the vast majority, we should only interact with them when fully necessary (whether thats good or bad depends entirely on your life experiences) vs Black America= white people have made us so reliant on them the past 400 years that even attempting to be successful without them will probably get our shit burned down(see Tulsa 1930s etc). What I'm saying is that there are enough successful black people in this country now, where they can and should build the equivalent to Chinatowns, Little Tokyos, Greektowns, Little Italy's, etc. that aren't built and maintained by the powers that be to simply be another way of keeping black people as 4th class citizens. Because based off my own experiences and those I've talked to, asians in this country are 2nd class citizens, but that would make black americans 4th or even 5th class citizens.
@@RW-ir2bq ironically one of the few meritocracies in this world is sports, something that I have no problem admitting that asian representation is appropriate at this time. However, sports are not externally valid when applying them to academics or economics. I say with full confidence that the African-American population is more suited to play basketball and football on the whole compared to Asians and thats mostly why the NBA and NFL look they way they do. Just to be perfectly clear, I am NOT saying Asians are inherently more suited for academics and white-collar jobs and that's why incomes look the way they do, that would be dumb as shit.
@@NwoDispatcher yea, it's called almost everywhere in the USA. And that's not a bad thing necessarily. Non-hispanic whites are still like 61% of the population? Just by virtue of the numbers there will be all white communities and those places are probably awesome for the people there
While I can agree with Jeremy Lin about racism.. what troubles me is that when Blackpeople stand up to racism we don't have Asian allies for the most part. But throughout American history there were Blackpeople who fought for policies to help Asians. A Blackperson in a the Korean war defected and joined the otherside against America. Mohammed Ali stated no Vietcon ever called him the n word. But when an Asian police officier Peter Lang shot an unarmed Black male for no good reason.. Asians came out and supported the cop killing an unarmed man and wanted him to face no punishment. Black people would never side with a Black person harming an Asian for no reason other than self defense. An Asian male shot a 5yr old boy and the media buried that story but instead focused on random attacks against AAPI by emotionally disturbed homeless and treated those random attacks as if they were orchestrated by all Black people. Using immigrant Blacks, who have zero commraderie with the Black community to help with the false accusations and media slant by demanding Blacks stop the attacks. Then immediately after the crime bill passed.. the stories ended. Then upon review of documents from the organization known as AAPI.. it was revealed that the overwhelming majority of attacks against Asian were by White Christian evangelicals. So when you look at the obstacles American Blackpeople have to face with Asians, and Black immigrants and all other groups using their proximity to whiteness against us.. stories like this tend to leave the Well of the eyes a bit dry.
yeah Asians need to realize that Black people have stood with and helped Asians way more often than white people have. Unfortunately in this country, minorities are not allowed to be individuals and will always be associated with their group. Whenever a minority does anything bad, the entire group is viewed poorly because of it. When a white person does something bad, no one associates it with the whole group. But when a Black person does something bad, all of a sudden the entire group is viewed poorly because of that one person.
He should let the racism fuel his anger on the court.. shut peeps up.. that's how I would play when peeps pissed me off.. it would make me a better player.
Yeah, like SERIOUSLY... Racists who actually HATE you enough to pay you at least 3+ MILLION a year just to play in the NBA??? If you're so goddamn tired of your job, then QUIT!!!
Go for it! A lot of us are really different from how we’re portrayed through the internet, and we don’t care about the race of a guy, but instead the personally and connection
@@kendricklong946 Black Lives have always mattered. I was speaking about the movement. And to the Female Interviewer speaking about the Black Lives Matter movement vs something that is fairly new! Black Lives have always mattered in one way or another. Be in Peace - 💋
What rise to fame?... he was a good player in 2012-2014... He hasn't done shit in years and he's not even in the NBA now.. Dude is 30+ year old currently playing in the Developmental League.. no one is calling him up to play in the NBA .. Give me a break.
Honestly just feel pity for people like you, who spend more time hating on other people than actually doing something with your life. What have you done? That's right, nothing comparable to Jeremy.. Give me a break :)
@@esh8973 dont disagree that it was short lived, but he has done amazing stuff outside of linsanity, given they're not with basketball skills and more so lending his voice. Just saying don't gotta hate
As a Chinese-American woman, an NBA superfan and a fan of Jeremy Lin, I fully appreciate Takeline's first episode about Asian-American racism. I was already on top of Jeremy Lin's career and his encounters with racism from articles, so I enjoyed hearing Jeremy speaking about his experience. I wish Jason and Renee great success with your show, and wish Jeremy a return to the glory of Linsanity.
Thanks so much, Sharon!
2021 still watching linsanity show...damn thats so legend.. go asian powr..
The Lin interview is informative for anyone who wants to understand the Asian American immigrant experience, the lack of a feeling of belonging and wanting to be seen as who each of us actually are. Attacks on the Asian American community are hateful and unacceptable, I'm so glad this was brought up to bring more awareness to it. Great first episode, Jason and Renee!
Jeremy sounds like he’s came full circle in his life. Good luck with your foundation.
Jeremy Lin is one of the most important players and we are fortunate to have him in the basketball world. Aside from giving us one of the top sports moments in history with Linsanity, The guy has been a class act outside of the courts and has always been a great rolemodel for many. Him using his platform to give voice for the unheard is brave and I am sure he is inspiring many Asian Americans and people from all backgrounds and colors. If Jeremy Lin does not get a Hall Of Fame nomination for his efforts then I hope he knows that his fans will always appreciate him for what he done for us.
Except for that haircut while he was with the Charlotte Hornets. You kicked ass taking us to that playoffs tho.
Great interview and great first episode of the pod! Congrats all! 💖💖
Jeremy Lin is great! So glad he's so comfortable talking like this. Not that I'm in a place to give advice but questions that start with "talk about" seem difficult for subjects to answer. Love the show and all 3 of you.
Great Interview! If there is one take away, it's that America's education system has failed us all big time.
This is such a good interview. I hope Jeremy Lin, when he hangs it up, continues to talk to the people. Hopefully in a broadcasting role.
I'm not normally a sports person, but I find you guys insanely interesting! Thanks for doing what you do!
* Linsanely ;)
Jeremy Lin journey to fame is a tough undertaking , from constantly assigned to sit by the side line in most of the matches to finally get to prove his talent in court through personal hard work itself is an inspiration to many young players. Hope his ' Linsanity' live on , really enjoy his take on racism in USA.
So touching and thank you for the channel!👏💯
also a big shout out on the interviewers. totally awesome talk I really enjoyed listening.
I appreciate your efforts to speak out and educate us on the Asian experience. My heart goes out to the Asian people. I'm Native American and I support you. I wish you the best. Thank you.
This was an insightful interview - and I lived Linsanity as a fan - his thoughts on race, sports and fame were really engaging - Takeline is going to be great!!
A great interview with a very important conversation embedded. Fantastic job
What a wonderfully informative and touching interview!
Soooo good! Not that I didn’t expect that. Jeremy Lin needs to be a recurring guest he is definitely natural at this. Love it want more!! Renee and Jason you guys killing it!!!
Good to see real conversation!!
Great stuff. Keep up the culture. We appreciate your voices and takes.
Such a good talk and to hear his voice speak for the community. Thank you
My guy since 8th grade!! I remember when he had that "magical" run with the Knicks and felt so much pride seeing someone who kinda looked like me making it in the NBA. I wasn't super into basketball then, but he was a bright spot as a Korean American who went to a predominantly white school too.
Great interview
What a good, genuine dude.
Excellent job!!!
"Talk more, Jeremy, talk more!"
Loving this interview and the content
Thank you for this first episode! I especially appreciated the support of the girls’ basketball team and Jeremy’s perspective. I found the highlighting of anti trans moves really on point too!
More of this please. Y'all were so good and shootouts to Lin just allowing us some vulnerability, for us to know about this subject
“How can you be Asian and Chinese?” Amazing
Lin is a true class. look at the donations he made over the years to organizations helping kids with colors, students with financial needs, and people with serious illnesses.
Fantastic interview! As an Asian, I am so so so proud of Jeremy Lin (except for that background - wait, is that a bathroom stall at MSG?)
Awesome!!
You look at the team rosters and it's absurd he's not in the NBA. Many of his teammates over the years are kicking around, as are players that he's torched. It's ridiculous.
Jeremy also played for the Raptors.
Now we asian must refuse to buy brands again Asian . If these brand do not post on social media specific support Asian community, we must stop purchasing items from those brands who do not support Asian community. If they do , they must post on social media. Black lives matters so are asian lives matters
GS GOTTA SIGN LIN ASAP THEY NEED HIM OTB
lin is in myteam
Never will understand why Eddie Huang hates on this guy....SMH
Props to Jeremy Lin. One of my favorite athletes. This is why Ethnic Studies should be implemented in the public schools immediately! The sincere ignorance of people of color’s culture and history is atrocious, disheartening and dangerous.✌🏾❤️🙏🏾
Also forgot former nba champion
The immigrant experience is so different from the black experience. Us asians/our parents came here knowing the country is mostly white, and despite the slurs, bullying, socio-economic obstacles, etc. we love this country and for the most part, our lives are better than if we had stayed. To shield us from these more negative aspects, we have resisted assimilation and have had assimilation been resisted(Jeremy's experience is a great example). We have found strength in aggregating among ourselves, starting our own businesses to build up our communities. I have always felt black people should do this, but it is extremely depressing that they have tried and had these attempts literally burned to the ground and had the soil salted by systemic racism. However, with the changing times, I feel these efforts should be reignited. To the black folks out there, I know it's unfair to ask you to seclude yourself in a country that you have literally built with the blood, sweat, and tears of your ancestors, a country that continually puts you down and destroys any chance of independence politically, culturally, and economically despite your ties to this land predating most white people, but what other options are there? It's not PC, and even the least racist white people among us will disagree, but integration as we have tried has not and will not work in any reasonable time frame. We need Chubbtowns, Detroits, and Black wall streets as franchises across the country, hopefully built up by reparations in the form of tax cuts, etc. and the LeBrons, Shaqs, and Magic Johnson's need to use their funds and businesses to fund these communities.
This is an extremely ignorant comment. I'm too tired to point out all of the reasons why, but you're oversimplifying the political determinants that opened doors for Asian Americans, the ways in which Asian American have directly benefitted from antiblackness (not just pure meritpcracy), and the fact that there are plenty of Nigerian immigrants who have been just as successful (and collectively more successful) than Asian immigrants as a whole. You sound so ignorant and extremely condescending. Are you even actually an American?? Because clearly you don't know American history.
@@RW-ir2bq I understand taking my comment as an oversimplification, but really I just homed in on one specific example of the difference between the asian american and black experience. I didn't mention meritocracy at all?? Obviously asians benefit from "positive" stereotypes, I have experienced them myself. If you need me to clarify the specific points I'm making I can, but I'm not tryna write a thesis here. I'm curious what the point of mentioning Nigerian success stories was? People of all backgrounds have found success in this country, but asians as a minority group have the highest per capita income statistically. I wasnt saying that our success was completely attributable to our culture(in a country that's 61% white, you need white people to make money) but our predilection for focusing inwards on our community was a significant contributing factor. Like I said, the ability to preserve our culture, values, and communities as well as separate them from white america slightly is not a luxury black americans have. African immigrants do have this ability as they have a history and culture from their native lands not entrenched in slavery, but they also have to deal with being prejudged on their skin color. Again, my original comment was just a rambling thing that was all over the place, but tldr for you: Asian-American mindset= white people are the vast majority, we should only interact with them when fully necessary (whether thats good or bad depends entirely on your life experiences) vs Black America= white people have made us so reliant on them the past 400 years that even attempting to be successful without them will probably get our shit burned down(see Tulsa 1930s etc). What I'm saying is that there are enough successful black people in this country now, where they can and should build the equivalent to Chinatowns, Little Tokyos, Greektowns, Little Italy's, etc. that aren't built and maintained by the powers that be to simply be another way of keeping black people as 4th class citizens. Because based off my own experiences and those I've talked to, asians in this country are 2nd class citizens, but that would make black americans 4th or even 5th class citizens.
@@RW-ir2bq ironically one of the few meritocracies in this world is sports, something that I have no problem admitting that asian representation is appropriate at this time. However, sports are not externally valid when applying them to academics or economics. I say with full confidence that the African-American population is more suited to play basketball and football on the whole compared to Asians and thats mostly why the NBA and NFL look they way they do. Just to be perfectly clear, I am NOT saying Asians are inherently more suited for academics and white-collar jobs and that's why incomes look the way they do, that would be dumb as shit.
Should whites form their own communities?
@@NwoDispatcher yea, it's called almost everywhere in the USA. And that's not a bad thing necessarily. Non-hispanic whites are still like 61% of the population? Just by virtue of the numbers there will be all white communities and those places are probably awesome for the people there
The black Lady is beautiful
Jason left Ringer? what
Thank you for this. #protectasianlives #stopasianhate
While I can agree with Jeremy Lin about racism.. what troubles me is that when Blackpeople stand up to racism we don't have Asian allies for the most part. But throughout American history there were Blackpeople who fought for policies to help Asians. A Blackperson in a the Korean war defected and joined the otherside against America. Mohammed Ali stated no Vietcon ever called him the n word.
But when an Asian police officier Peter Lang shot an unarmed Black male for no good reason.. Asians came out and supported the cop killing an unarmed man and wanted him to face no punishment. Black people would never side with a Black person harming an Asian for no reason other than self defense. An Asian male shot a 5yr old boy and the media buried that story but instead focused on random attacks against AAPI by emotionally disturbed homeless and treated those random attacks as if they were orchestrated by all Black people. Using immigrant Blacks, who have zero commraderie with the Black community to help with the false accusations and media slant by demanding Blacks stop the attacks.
Then immediately after the crime bill passed.. the stories ended.
Then upon review of documents from the organization known as AAPI.. it was revealed that the overwhelming majority of attacks against Asian were by White Christian evangelicals.
So when you look at the obstacles American Blackpeople have to face with Asians, and Black immigrants and all other groups using their proximity to whiteness against us.. stories like this tend to leave the Well of the eyes a bit dry.
yeah Asians need to realize that Black people have stood with and helped Asians way more often than white people have.
Unfortunately in this country, minorities are not allowed to be individuals and will always be associated with their group.
Whenever a minority does anything bad, the entire group is viewed poorly because of it.
When a white person does something bad, no one associates it with the whole group. But when a Black person does something bad, all of a sudden the entire group is viewed poorly because of that one person.
He should let the racism fuel his anger on the court.. shut peeps up.. that's how I would play when peeps pissed me off.. it would make me a better player.
Yeah, like SERIOUSLY... Racists who actually HATE you enough to pay you
at least 3+ MILLION a year just to play in the NBA??? If you're so
goddamn tired of your job, then QUIT!!!
That’s not the point. The point is whether he is treated the SAME as his peers. They are all getting paid large amounts of money.
U get paid to be discriminated
Renee fine as hell, Lin tryna be like boogie and get with that chocolate. I'm Asian I love black women
@Kendrick Long - Black women will love your last name. You probably take your coffee black, like your women.
Go for it! A lot of us are really different from how we’re portrayed through the internet, and we don’t care about the race of a guy, but instead the personally and connection
@@truefalse934 I love everything about black women! I'm gonna find one and treat her like a queen.
@@kevinp8108 i just love they skin, smile and everything
Ya, we are pretty cute, aren't we? 😊U have good taste lol
Thanks for dropping this during the anniversary of Latasha Harlins death
Jeremy. Lin. This. Good. Lin. 。nets. Boss. Chinese. Trade. Lin. Why. I. Do. No. So. Nets. Boss. No. Good
Black Lives Matter is fairly new Hun.
No it's not black lives have always mattered to me. As an Asian man I love black women! They matter all day and everyday.
@@kendricklong946 Black Lives have always mattered. I was speaking about the movement. And to the Female Interviewer speaking about the Black Lives Matter movement vs something that is fairly new!
Black Lives have always mattered in one way or another. Be in Peace - 💋
@@THELOVEGODDESSROSE good point! I love you, may piece unify our people together and may love bring us closer.
@@kendricklong946 Absolutely! Ily2! 💕✨
@@kendricklong946 aawww this was sweet
This guy got a ring he ain't earn. Lets just put that on the wax
Let the grievance olympics begin.
Pretty much... We never demanded that they immigrate now they throw this shit in our faces?
People are not supposed to grieve
What rise to fame?... he was a good player in 2012-2014... He hasn't done shit in years and he's not even in the NBA now.. Dude is 30+ year old currently playing in the Developmental League.. no one is calling him up to play in the NBA .. Give me a break.
Linsanity was short lived, but when it was happening he became really famous. Rise to fame doesn’t mean he kept that level over the years.
Honestly just feel pity for people like you, who spend more time hating on other people than actually doing something with your life. What have you done? That's right, nothing comparable to Jeremy.. Give me a break :)
@@matthewlam8989 like Eric said . Linsanity was short lived.. nexxxxxxxxxxt
@@esh8973 dont disagree that it was short lived, but he has done amazing stuff outside of linsanity, given they're not with basketball skills and more so lending his voice. Just saying don't gotta hate
@@matthewlam8989 whos hating on him?. he's not s victim...
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