Kenneth Eng: remember him? "Why I Hate Blacks" and the weird dragon fetish? Well, after he got fired from his columnist gig at San Francisco's Asianweek, we've gotten quite a bit of news updates about him -- his YouTube clips, his weird statements after the Virginia Tech tragedy, and, most intriguingly, a copy of the book proposal he was shopping around -- but we decided as an editorial matter we weren't going to run anything......

Remember dragon-loving, African-American hating Asianweek columnist Kenneth Eng, and the stir he set off a few weeks ago? Well, after national embarrassment, red-faced apologies, and the now-obligatory pro-tolerance panel attendance by its staff and board, Asianweek finally announced that it's taken action, and quietly demoted Samson Wong, the editor who allowed Eng's piece to run in the first place. (We know, we know, it's old news -- but we were on vacation and just......

A thoughtful reader sent us this link from racist Asianweek columnist Kenneth Eng's interview on Fox News with John Gibson. Can we just pass along the following quotes? ...Personally if I'm racist then so is Sofia Coppola. And more importantly I'd like to talk about the philosophy of "Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate," which tells a story about cyborg dragons fighting in the Middle Ages. [....]Well, I generally hate black and white people, but the [why I......

So what's the latest with those two Asian-American embarrassments of last week, racist Kenneth Eng and Gavin-obsessed Han Shin? Or, as we call them around here, Green Dragon and Purple Glove! The Green Dragon first: A reader passes along the tip that the publishers of Kenneth Eng's sci-fi masterpiece Dragons: Lexicon Triumverate (about dragons armed with machine guns) have pulled his books off the shelves (scroll down) and will delete the book from their website......

Ah yes, the weekend. Finally! It's been a hectic week-- earthquakes, landslides, the whole Kenneth Eng fiasco, those purple latex gloves-- where will it all end? We don't know but we could sure use a drink and a good old fashioned shindig-- too bad that most of the Noise Pop shows have sold out. We've put together a list of runner-ups for the weekend in the city. Sure, its not Ted Leo, Cake or The Donnas, but you can get just as drunk for half the price. Here's a rundown of the haps:...

Update as of 10 a.m. 3/2/07: new link found in our quest to collect all the entertaining Kenneth Eng links on the Internet after the jump! This one quotes Maya Angelou! Also: why did the Chronicle's editorial page call him "Richard" Eng in the hard copy of the paper (corrected online)? At least Bad Reporter got Eng's name right. --- Okay, okay, we know we just put up a post about the Asianweek situation, but......

We've heard the self-proclaimed "Voice of Asian America," and it's apologizing profusely. SFist Jim stopped by yesterday's NAACP press conference with Amos Brown (.mp3 of his comments) and a shell-shocked Asianweek editor-at-large Ted Fang (at right), where Fang announced that "Why I Hate Blacks" columnist (and sci-fi enthusiast) Kenneth Eng had been fired from their publication. However, the Asianweek editor in chief, Samson Wong, did not participate in the press conference (though SFist Jim......

Okay, we're a local news junkie Asian-American, and we're just going to say it -- we're a little embarrassed for our people from yesterday. Or, rather, we're going to strongly support investing more resources into Asian-American mental health advocacy and support groups. Okay, first up -- what's the latest with Gavin Newsom's stalker, Mr. Purple Gloves? Well, persistent reporters at the Chronicle managed to get Han Shin on the phone last night, where they had......

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......