Equal Justice Society

Excerpt from Chronicle brief in today’s paper:
AsianWeek Editor Samson Wong has been removed as editor in chief of the publication and reassigned as a result of the furor that followed publication in late February of a column titled “Why I Hate Blacks.” Wong has been reassigned to a job of “senior editorial [...]

Leaders of the civil rights organizations that initiated the protest against AsianWeek’s publication of a hate speech column against African Americans today noted the newspaper’s decision to remove Samson Wong as editor-in-chief.
The masthead of the newspaper’s March 30 issue shows that former editor-in-chief Samson Wong’s title is now “Senior Editorial Consultant.”
“We asked AsianWeek to hold [...]

AsianWeek has quietly changed their masthead in the issue that appeared on the stands today.
Samson Wong is no longer editor-in-chief. His new title is “senior editorial consultant.”
Ted Fang is now editor and publisher. He was previously editor-at-large.

In the most articulate summary to date of the issues related to the AsianWeek publication of hate speech, Erin Aubry Kaplan writes in today’s LA Times:
The column, published in the San Francisco-based AsianWeek newspaper in the waning days of African American History Month, was so astonishingly hateful that activists of all stripes immediately rushed forward [...]

This is a statement provided to me on March 2. I’m posting it late, but thanks to APAP for the support!
The board of Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, a national network of progressive Asian Pacific Americans, has voted to denounce views expressed in Kenneth Eng’s column in the February 23rd edition Asianweek. In addition, [...]

Ellis Cose writes in a web commentary that the hateful column in AsianWeek should never have been printed. But  it touched on a subject—tensions between blacks and Asians—that could benefit from some clear, constructive thought.

UPDATE 3/15: Neela rescinds her comments about David Lee here.
Neela Bannerjee, a former editor-in-chief of AsianWeek, writes about the Friday forum:
This forum was organized by New America Media (where I work) and also with help from David Lee of the Chinese American Voters Education Committee, who is one of the people who stood up for [...]