WHY I HATE BLACKS! (An article in AsianWeek)

The article, described below, shows how easy it is for Blacks to come across people in the workplace who have a mindset and racially ignorant beliefs that would strongly contribute to race-based problems in the workplace. Each person brings their own dysfunctions and racial perspectives to every job they work at. Far too often, some people feel the need to express those negative points of view and to wrongly lash out against other races, etc. It cannot be reasonably argued that people who can say and write such negative things about another race will not and would not hold those people to different standards of expectation (performance evaluations, day-to-day duties, etc.) and would not act out against those individuals—if the opportunity presented itself. Very few people have that sort of impulse control that would allow them to fight such strong and negative views of another race. Having given my preamble, please read on:

The editor of San Franciso-based weekly newspaper, AsianWeek, has had to issue an apology because one of his contributing writers, Kenneth Eng, did a piece called, WHY I HATE BLACKS!

Mr. Eng’s reasons for hating Black people include:

--They were enslaved for more than 300 years! What took them so long to fight back?
--They are easy to coerce!
--Blacks hate us [Asians]. He alleges we hurl racial slurs at Asians all the time.

AsianWeek issued a statement regretting "any offense caused by the one opinion piece," and stated, “What this controversy points out is the lack of community leadership in addressing the critical and difficult issues of race relations, particularly between Asian Pacific Americans and African Americans.” The paper plans to co-sponsor a town hall-style meeting with the Willie L. Brown Jr. Institute on Politics & Public Service.

I guess that’s their version of social rehab, which is similar to what Isaiah Washington was forced to do by the producers of Grey’s Anatomy.

Many Asian organizations came out and condemned the article. An Asian scholar (retired) at UC Berkeley has said that Asian American gains have come thanks to the efforts of African Americans.

For the record: AsianWeek calls itself “The voice of Asian America.”

The writer, Kenneth Eng, has also done a piece called, Why I Hate Asians. Someone get him to Oprah or Dr. Phil!

The AsianWeek web site took down the article, but the content can be found at: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/27/MNGTCOBI921.DTL

Sources: Diversityinc.org and San Francisco Chronicle