hey everybody Max here again and today I
have a very special guest with me this
is another me a Happy video for a halfa
hour this is my friend Joe hi everyone
my name is Joe Oliver I'm 33 years old
I'm half American half
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Japanese his story is very different
from a lot of other people I really
think it's worth everyone's time here to
hear his story
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my father is africanamerican my mom
Japanese yeah they met in Japan in Tokyo
I born and raised in yosa City down to
South from Tokyo just one hour my father
used to be Navy US Navy he worked for
Navy base so did you have a lot of other
International people around you growing
up or no no no no no you the only I'm I
was the only one me and my mom couldn't
live in Tokyo my my mom from Tokyo she
wants to live with you know her parents
MH because my my parents divorce already
yeah so she she needs help from her
parents but my grandparents doesn't want
marriage with American especially
African was it any Foreigner in general
m
M I think they don't like all the fora
but especially with that Caucasian I
think you
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know it's
really terrible so your dad he went back
to the US right he didn't really contact
your mom anymore just time just just a
few times maybe letter letters yeah what
was it like going to school and things
like that the first time I had the
buring from racism when I was 7 years
old first grade I didn't understand why
they tried to attack me when you say
you're saying attacking but to be very
specific people would like just punch
you or randomly right or kick you all
the time all the time just walking home
from school or walking to school both
and in the school and these were were
these other kids or the adults or what
both in in a school kid uhhuh out of the
school adult I was so scared you know
that especially adult right cuz I can
understand you know kids are going to be
jerks but a grown adult you're just
walking home from school right and then
a grown man comes up to you and did he
would say something because like he
knows you're black right yeah yeah and
word and what in Japanese crumbo get off
the get out get out of town get out of
my town
every day every single day I don't I
don't want I don't want to get that
but H you just got used to it just kind
of accepted like and there's no I mean
you had your mom only to support yeah
she tried to support me but she was just
a woman she couldn't to protect all my
you know all my things she tried to
become POS because she raised me only
herself MH you know she single mother
but she couldn't but she loves me I just
think now there's a lot of other ha Fu
black people in Japan and there's so
much support now I think a lot of people
really think you know half people in
general are cool yeah fancy yeah fancy
and some of them they I don't know if
they have the same very bad experience
that you did it's important to note that
sometimes this does happen I I when you
were telling me I just couldn't believe
it especially you already adult when you
get you know if you got you know those
kind of situation as an adult that's too
hard you know I was kid that's why I got
I I couldn't get over kid is very strong
more than adult you think so I think so
I I would have been broken
going on you know how long did that
continue you said from 7 years old
almost every like I fixed that I had
racing in my my local I fixed them at
when I was 18 years old oh you're I
fixed I fixed all my all my problem I
fixed actually I didn't have a friend
until High School yeah I do have any
friends that was just cuz in yosa
everyone was just very r R I guess
basically cuz you know the town is you
know Navy town ah yeah so that's why
they feel about American people uhhuh as
the bad person bad people yeah that's
what I heard is there anything you want
to say about middle school middle school
was the same kind of Elementary same
people go to middle school this from ele
elementary school so that's why never
changed we choose the high school the
high school is not same town you know
the other the other place oh just I
changed the place so I found new people
in my class so they are so nice they
everyone's Japanese right Japanese but
they they have they were in struggle
they they family situation they don't
have no racing they don't have building
but one of one of my friends no no his
family has a lot of Shak oh go
struggle
Doo everyone who struggle friendship
struggle friendships but so that was
like 16 kind of like yeah 16 start 16
first grading in high school in in high
school was good but out of high school
never changed the like the city yeah in
the city the same city your mom tried to
help you become like a model right yeah
she took picture how many times maybe a
th000 times 2,000 times yeah yeah yeah
yeah for the send my picture to the
agency she helped me she's she support
me to be become model how did things
change once you the first of all when I
walk in the street the people look at me
people say oh you were in the magazine I
we saw it everybody wants to share about
me about my my information my M work
everybody wants to share because you
know they treat me like hero I don't
want to say like that but you know slave
to slave become hero I feel like I feel
like I'm not slave but you know it's
kind of like Gladiator yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah you're kind of like
that everything just kind of changed not
what is it everything do you what do you
think I think yeah almost everything
like but you know at the time my mom
passed away yeah that that's actually a
big thing to notice like you you said
she was she was working really hard y
all day long uh when she passed away
when I was thing before I become model
oh before you got these jobs yeah she
passed away yeah at the time she went to
she was a patient
then yeah she passed away just one month
I know she has sick but she didn't tell
she didn't tell me all all the things I
I didn't know she has cancer I didn't
know that about but doctor already tells
her dir come so just she you know she
left Legacy right well I mean kind of
she leave she took 2,000 pictures of you
really work hard but isn't that kind of
what led to your you know we didn't talk
about it fully but here Revenge story I
guess yeah I I'll okay I'll talk about
revenge story my best friend he made me
plan to Revenge Revenge oh so this is
like
finally I
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