Asian American Leaders Criticize AsianWeek for Printing Kenneth Eng's Column 'Why I Hate Blacks'

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Asian American leaders joined together to criticize AsianWeek for printing Kenneth Eng's column "Why I Hate Blacks" in its February 23rd edition. The leaders condemn the piece as irresponsible journalism, blatantly racist, replete with stereotypes, and deeply hurtful to African Americans. They called on AsianWeek to take immediate action and issue an unequivocal apology, terminate their relationship with Kenneth Eng, print an editorial refuting the column, review their editorial policy and process, and hold those responsible accountable.

The original column can be found in the print and on the AsianWeek website at: http://tinyurl.com/2kbtdt

"Eng's article is unacceptable and offensive not only to African Americans, but to all Americans," said Karen K. Narasaki, President and Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center. "AsianWeek has a responsibility to its readers and to the community to take immediate and appropriate action to repair the serious damage it has caused by publishing this piece."

"Most Asian Americans would not be here in America today, but for the civil rights movement led by African Americans that resulted in the change to racist immigration quotas," said Stewart Kwoh, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20070224/pl_usnw/asian_american_leaders_criticize_asianweek_for_printing_kenneth_eng_s_column__why_i_hate_blacks

[provis99]

1. just read the AsianWeek article. Ick.

Well, I guess the true irony of racism is that anyone of any race can be an ignorant bigot.

[muntrv]

2. I'd expect this shit from David Duke, not AsianWeek.

[provis99]

3. he has an amazon.com profile

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/ATCXMPPVKTNTU
I took a quick look at it. In all seriousness, he appears to be insane.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. Kenneth Eng is a racist asshole.

[Ken Burch]

5. Gee...Guess Dinesh D'Souza has a new drinking buddy,,,

:beer: :sarcasm: :wtf:

[Nikki Stone1]

6. Interesting that Eng takes credit for beating the Russians in war

What a horrible piece of garbage.

[nam78_two]

7. Yeah the guy who wrote that is a real classs act-he is a self-described

"Asian supremacist" :eyes:-he hates blacks, whites, Mexicans and from what I can tell most Asians because they are "self-loathing suck-ups"...
No doubt there are even more groups he loathes, being as open-minded and tolerant as he is...

[Tyo]

10. WTF?

This kind of crap only comes from people who aren't comfortable in their own skins. If there is any self-loathing going on here it's Eng's. Dude makes me ashamed. Speak for your own sorry-assed self, Kenny.

[bullwinkle428]

8. Maybe he and Tim Hardaway can do a comedy act...

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Ken Burch]

11. ...and the act ends with RuPaul coming on stage and beating the crap out of both of them,

in couture, of course...

[provis99]

9. another link; he's obviously insane; needs mental help

http://scars.tv/cgi-bin/works_e.pl?/home/users/web/b929/us.scars/perl/text-writings/y380.txt

[JI7]

12. he also wrote "Why I Hate Asians"

it almost reads like some satire or something.

the guy has serious issues for sure.

[BlooInBloo]

13. It's not criticism - it's only "criticism".

[JI7]

14. the link to the original column isn't working for me

and i can't find it anywhere else . can someone provide another link.