Mother Jones - Comments for "AsianWeek Columnist Had a Penchant for Hate Speech"

I've been asking (for many years), why can't we be "AMERICANS"? Why do people think they have to be some kind of American? Until we make this transition, we will continue to have problems that will keep us from becoming a great nation.

You right, John.

I'm going to stick up for the guy. I don't agree with all his points but why is it that for Asian Americans to publicly complain about racially-motivated insults and assaults by blacks is a TABOO??

I despise the self-proclaimed Asian-American community leaders who slavishly follow the mantra "let's build coalitions with other minorities because we're minorities". The "leadership" self-censors its own community to maintain those rainbow coalitions. The truth is that each minority community has different and conflicting interests. We can't and shouldn't compromise our dignity just to maintain these shaky coalitions.

Fang seems like a real lunatic. In his column about how white people inherantly hate Asians, he says:

"Most Asians know that everywhere we go, white/black/Hispanic people hurl racist remarks at us. 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."

Funny, from reading his stuff you'd never guess that he hardly goes out of his home.

I am one of Pastor Bob's workers. He is a good street preacher. I use to bang, but now I am on fire for the Lord. Thank you Jesus. Does that offend people?

Tyrone - I notice that you use the same email address when posting as Pastor Bob. What an amazing coincidence!!!

It sometimes seems that just about everybody is picking on the Black man during Black History month. Many believe that the too many Japanese are ethnocentric,and xenophobic and look down on the Black man. What is America coming to?

AsianWeek's publication of hate speech has done serious damage to APAs and to our relationship with the Black community. The issue was compounded by AsianWeek's initial insistence that it had done nothing wrong, and it took the additional criticism by the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, the mayor, and the board of supervisors (among others) to force AsianWeek's management to change its tune. The paper has still not addressed our key concerns, especially holding the editor(s) accountable.