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Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. The local newsweekly Asianweek is in a heap of trouble after running an opinion piece titled "Why I Hate Blacks," by a local 24-year-old Asian-American young-adult science fiction author named Kenneth Eng. The article has been taken off the Asianweek website, but is still available in the print copy currently on newsstands. [Update: .pdf of the article at page 2 of this link.] Other articles by Eng remain available online too, like "why I hate Asians," why he hates Caucasians, negative incidents he experienced in New York, and a mildly-violent fantasy, all compiled under his column, "God of the Universe." Great.
We're not going to reprint the various repulsive reasons given why Eng hates African-Americans -- you can read those for yourself in the Chronicle article -- and we'll let people decide for themselves whether he's just an inept satirist or genuinely a racist. Local activists of all colors are uniting to decry this guy, and they've said it all much, much better than we could.
However, we will take this opportunity to reprint the first two sentences of the description on Amazon of Eng's sci-fi novel Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate (picture of the cover to your right), and give you a link to his website, so you can read and enjoy his philosophical and sci-fi/fantasy ecritures at your leisure. Rifts in time! We're totally going to write an article called "Why We Hate Drekkenoth The Dragon King."
Rifts in time during the Middle Ages allow humans to summon powerful prehistoric beasts and future technologies in this fantastic novel about the influence of perception on reality and the role of political power on the conversion of knowledge into ideology. Under the auspices of the hominids, dragon king Drekkenoth has attempted to use knowledge to corrupt the minds of all the dragons in his kingdom but is stymied by the existence of a single source of uncorrupt knowledge: a tome of omniscience known as the Lexicon.
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There's a similar article from last month - wonder why it didn't get the same treatment.
http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=6c859740f0b8418d659b565a41321fae
http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=3c2205edb2a74736d441b394edc605c6
James Kim — Tragedy By Racism?
Emil Guillermo, Jan 26, 2007
Here’s one question no one dares to ask about the tragic death in the Oregon backcountry of CNET editor James Kim:
Did Kim’s heritage play any role in the tragedy?
That’s right — was race a factor in any part of this tragic snafu?
... leads one to a general conclusion that it wasn’t just the elements that led to the hypothermia that eventually killed James Kim.
THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT
Picture yourself as the Kims of San Francisco.
You’re ultra-hip. You’re on the cutting edge of tech and social trends. You’re an Asian male-white female couple with biracial children.
And now on the tail end of the Thanksgiving holiday, you’re a hip, upscale family in the Oregon backwoods.
From my experience, an Asian American man seeking directions in the burly backwoods of Oregon is a communications breakdown waiting to happen.
Sadly, that appears to be what sent the Kims down the wrong road.
Doesn't Emil Guillermo write for SFGate?
Thanks for the info on the petition, Keith -- I'll add it as a link in the article.
I went downtown this afternoon to take some photos of the Telegraph Hill landslide and managed to snag a printed copy of "AsianWeek" on Kearny Street. The short column, "Why I Hate Blacks," actually reads worse than the excerpts.
Besides being poorly written and juvenile, the racial attitude is creepily East Coast. California may have its problems but it's not as racially poisonous as much of the world east of the Mississipi. (How do you like that for prejudice?)
The real question is why in hell the paper printed the drivel in the first place? Are the Fangs and Samson Wong that genuinely cuckoo? Maybe so. In the same issue as "Why I Hate Blacks," there's a cartoon called "Secret Asian Man" by Tak where somebody is asked why they are wearing a Rosie O'Donnell mask. "Isn't it the year of the pig?" "Gotcha. Carry on." Also in the same issue is a long article by Bill Picture entitled "Friends Look for Julie Lee's Vindication."
The Fangs and their editor Samson Wong are scum, and all city contracts for legal notices in their rag should be stopped immediately.
Get a load of the classic cop-out apology by AsianWeek. "(We) sincerely regrets any offense caused by the one opinion piece which reflected that author's personal views." Way to take responsibility for what you print.
Asian weekly is totally responsible for this. The guy calls himself and "asian supremesist" in an earlier article. This guy was an open book of ignorant bigotry from way back.
Kenneth Eng's obviously an art student who managed to convince somebody at AsianWeek to let him try this social experiment. And I think for better or worse, we're reacting just like the racist country that we are. We can't see through the phoniness of Eng's prose. The fact that the San Fran Chronicle ran an A1 piece about this is pretty a sad reflection on accepting we are of others. Or not, maybe we actually are getting better.
Just curious, are these the same fangs which ran the examiner - with frequent blatant misspellings on the front cover?
I just thought I'd point out that Eng refers to Blacks as "darkies" in a comment he posted on his "Proof That Whites Inherently Hate Us" article. Fucker.
I've encountered Mr. Eng now then, on several writing-focused forums. My untrained assessment is that there's something deeply wrong with his brain mechanism. Not as an insult, just an observation that sooner or later he's going to have the Big Freakout that will make the front pages of Bay Area newspapers.
i hate racists .