Equal Justice Society

The Center for Asian American Media does not support AsianWeek’s publication of Kenneth Eng’s article “Why I Hate Blacks” in its February 23rd edition. We join the growing coalition of Asian American and civil rights organizations in asking AsianWeek to take journalistic responsibility for printing these racist statements by taking appropriate action.

Although ignoring the efforts of the Asian American coalition that brought this matter to light, the Chronicle’s Debra Saunders echos most of our points.
She says: “…the Special City has a way of making excuses for bigotry and intolerance — when they percolate from the left or ethnic groups.” Uh. That didn’t seem to happen here.
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The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Feb. 28 denounced the hateful views expressed by Kenneth Eng in his column published by AsianWeek in its February 23rd edition.
“Eng’s article is offensive and objectionable,” said Maria Somma, President of APALA. “There should be no place in America for this kind of bigotry. We want to tell our [...]

Neha Inamdar, on the Mother Jones blog,  nails the issue:
That’s a pretty egregious slip past the editors. And here’s the thing: Kenneth Eng, a self described “Asian supramicist” wrote two previous columns for AsianWeek titled, “Why I Hate Asians” last month, and “Proof that Whites Inherently Hate Us” in November.
I’m curious to know why the [...]

WNYC reporter Arun Venugopal posts his round-up on the South Asian Journalists Association Forum site:
A February 23 column in AsianWeek by Kenneth Eng has created a huge uproar among Asian-American community leaders, politicians such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Asian American Journalists Association. The column, “Why I Hate Blacks,” is not nearly as [...]

Michael Winter posts a round-up of developments related to the AsianWeek fiasco. Just around the time he posted the entry, the Chronicle’s Leslie Fulbright posted a story that Eng had been in fact fired.

From a Feb. 28 report by Tamara Barak of Bay City News Service:
AsianWeek Editor-at-Large Ted Fang today said the columnist who penned the piece “Why I Hate Black People” last week will not contribute to the free paper’s content again.
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Fang refused to clarify whether an editor reviewed the column and allowed it to go to [...]