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Tam, 35, a onetime religion and philosophy major turned bass-playing MBA, says record labels and agents require bands to register the trademarks; it’s not a privilege so much as a necessity. Tam has always approached the band as a business, and wants to reach the place where band members can quit their jobs and make music full-time. (Tam himself is the marketing director for an Oregon environmental nonprofit, an adjunct at two colleges and a traveling writer and speaker who sits on six boards of directors.).

As the other members coaxed lead singer Ken Shima through his umpteenth phrasing of a line in their new song “Fight Back,” Tam was constantly on his laptop in the dark and chilly studio, He was booking gigs for the band, and posting appeals on social media for money so the band can travel to Washington for the Supreme Court hearing, “Our case is not the floodgate for hate speech in this country,” Tam said as he took a break, “Every single racial slur you can life without ballet would be pointless, ballet wall art print, pink ballet toe shoe with quote for ballet decor or gift think of for Asian-Americans is a trademark right now, And almost any kind of slur you could think of for any group is a registered trademark right now, The law’s not working.”..

Indeed, the Redskins’ amicus brief in the case contains 18 pages of offensive-to-somebody registrations from the Patent and Trademark Office, beginning with Afro-Saxon clothing and working its way down to Yardapes landscaping. Even if it makes the Slants uncomfortable, the Redskins have a lot riding on the case. The team is locked in its own battle with the trademark office, which cited the disparagement clause in revoking the team’s decades-old trademark registration in 2014. The team’s own battle with the office has been put on hold until the Supreme Court acts on the Slants.

In the team’s amicus brief, Washington lawyer Lisa Blatt argues that “the PTO has registered countless marks that meet the government’s exceptionally broad definition of disparagement, i.e., potentially demeaning to even a small segment of a race, gender or religious group, “Just for musical bands, the PTO has registered White Trash Cowboys; Whores from Hell; N.W.A.; Cholos on Acid; life without ballet would be pointless, ballet wall art print, pink ballet toe shoe with quote for ballet decor or gift Reformed Whores; The Pop Whores; Hookers & Blow; The Roast Beef Curtains; Flea Market Hookers; The Pricks and Barenaked Ladies.”..

Tam said he got the idea for his band’s name even before it formed in 2006. The child of Chinese and Taiwanese parents, Tam was raised in diverse Southern California but moved to Portland to join another band. “They call Portland ‘America’s whitest city,’ ” Tam said during the drive from Portland to Eugene. “It’s changing now, but at the time if I saw a table of Chinese people, I’d go up to them and say hello.”. Always the “token Asian” in bands, Tam decided he would start his own, and he put up posters in Asian shopping centers and dim sum restaurants until he found a lineup. The band has changed over the years, but now consists of Tam, Shima (Japanese American) Yuya Matsuda (Japanese American) and Joe Jiang, who was born in China.

“I wanted to flip some stereotypes over,” Tam said, and he asked friends what all Asians had in common, “The first thing they said: All Asians have slanted eyes,” he said, “I thought, ‘That’s interesting.’ Number one, because it’s not even true, But then I thought, I could call it the Slants, It would be this play on words – life without ballet would be pointless, ballet wall art print, pink ballet toe shoe with quote for ballet decor or gift because we could talk about our slant on life, what it’s like to be people of color, to be Asian-American.”..

Neither Tam nor any of his bandmates said they had never been called a “slant” growing up, and did not even think of it as a slur. “We played a lot of Asian American festivals and a lot of Asian press covered us,” Tam said. “None of them even asked why were called the Slants.”. When his lawyer called to say the registration application had been turned down, Tam thought it was a joke. The initial evidence that the band’s name might be disparaging to Asian Americans was a citation to urbandictionary.com and “a picture of Miley Cyrus pulling her eyes back in a slant-eyed gesture,” he said.

As the appeals process progressed, life without ballet would be pointless, ballet wall art print, pink ballet toe shoe with quote for ballet decor or gift the trademark office’s objections became more sophisticated, and other evidence was introduced, Some think the band members are simply too young, or from the wrong parts of the country, to have heard “slant” used as a slur, Robert Chang is executive director of the Fred T, Korematsu Center, named for the man whose famous Supreme Court case unsuccessfully challenged the government’s wartime orders that led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, Chang remembers hearing the slur as a child in Ohio, and told the court in a brief that the similarity between the band and the Washington football team is deeper than the band acknowledges..

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