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 consultant,” AsianWeek [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“For AsianWeek newspaper for publishing a column titled ‘Why I Hate Blacks.’ The column’s author, New Yorker Kenneth Eng, wrote ‘a list of reasons why we should discriminate against blacks.’ The newspaper’s editors have said they made a lapse in judgment by publishing the piece,” wrote the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.