Asian paper’s ‘I Hate Blacks’ column condemned
Pandagon | Asian paper’s ‘I Hate Blacks’ column condemned
AsianWeek regular contributor Kenneth Eng has a bit of a problem. He hates black people — and didn’t mind saying so in a column aptly entitled “Why I Hate Blacks.”
Well, I’m glad he didn’t mince words. Eng, who in another one of his “God of the Universe” columns referred to himself as an “Asian supremacist,” is suffering from a terminal case of ignorance — with complications of bigotry added in there for further misery.
AsianWeek pulled Eng column, but it received a lot of coverage on the blogs, including this story in the San Francisco Chronicle.
…”The hate is based on ignorance and is very similar to the rationales that the KKK uses against African Americans,” said Henry Der, director for 22 years of Chinese for Affirmative Action and the former state administrator for Emeryville’s schools.
“What gives me the greatest concern was AsianWeek’s judgment in printing such a piece out of context,” Der said. “It is so trite and hateful, it doesn’t speak well for the publication.”