Asian paper's 'I Hate Blacks' column assailed

[Blue_Tires]

Leslie Fulbright, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, February 27, 2007


A San Francisco weekly newspaper that bills itself as "The Voice of Asian America" is facing harsh criticism from that very community for publishing a column Friday titled "Why I Hate Blacks."

In the column, AsianWeek regular contributor Kenneth Eng listed "reasons" to discriminate against African Americans. The piece has been pulled from the newspaper's Web site, but the print edition of the free paper, owned by the politically influential Fang family, was still available in news racks Monday.

Eng called himself an "Asian supremacist" in January in another installment of the column, which runs under the label "God of the Universe."

Prominent Asian Americans immediately condemned Eng's current column.

"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.


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/27/HATE.TMP

[WorldResident]

1. The writer definitely has balls

He's also written articles against blacks and Asians according to the article.

[KamaAina]

2. Attention MSM! He's bashing Christianity, too!

So it's OK for you guys to pick up on this after all. :sarcasm:

"Blacks are easy to coerce. This is proven by the fact that so many of them, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, tend to be Christians." :grr: :banghead:

What do you think? Worst Person In The World??

[mainer]

3. He seems to be an equal-opportunity hater

seems he's experienced enough discrimination himself to be resentful of just about everyone.

[Quantess]

4. Sorry, that's not a good excuse.

(Not that you were making excuses for him.)

Being discriminated against does not give someone the license to be racist.

[wellst0nev0ter]

5. Whatever "Discrimination" He Got He Deserved

from the article:

In 2004, for an online magazine called Down in the Dirt, he wrote about experiencing racism as an Asian American student at New York University after he "expressed my negative views on America, religion and African Americans."