Author Radford Davis, is one of the fewer than 600 American men who, as teens, managed to find authentic secret ninja teachers here in the United States. Apparently during the late 1970's and '80's hundreds of Ninja from the Koga district of Japan flooded the United States to try out for parts in various ninja films and television programs. Hollywood being as cutthroat as it is (and was then, let me tell you!), most of these Ninja had to go out and take non-ninja jobs while waiting for calls from their agents which, sadly, never came. Imagine if you will the ninja fast-food worker, the ninja landscaper, the ninja janitor, the ninja waiter. It couldn't have been easy! Many of them had to overcome discrimination because of their preferred cultural mode of dress (ninja costume). A rather sad testiment to our modern so-called "inclusive" society, indeed!
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