SFist: Why We Hate Racists

Joseph

Thu, 31 May 2007 18:02:13 -0800

i hate racists .

dantc

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:52:14 -0800

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.

Cody

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:47:54 -0800

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.

Joe

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:56:35 -0800

Just curious, are these the same fangs which ran the examiner - with frequent blatant misspellings on the front cover?

Why I Hate?

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:19:26 -0800

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.

Mark 2000

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:57:11 -0800

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.

Jeremy

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:57:55 -0800

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.

sfmike

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:52:33 -0800

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.

rita

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:04:21 -0800

Thanks for the info on the petition, Keith -- I'll add it as a link in the article.

T.E. Lawrence

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:53:33 -0800

Doesn't Emil Guillermo write for SFGate?

ChubbyLover53

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:44:12 -0800

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.

KWillets

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:30:54 -0800

Best quote: I have already received about 10 racist remarks in the past three months and I have only been out of my home a handful of times.

Keith Kamisugi

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:06:59 -0800

Please join us in holding AsianWeek accountable for this hate speech = capaweb.org/awpetition