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 rushedContinueContinue reading “Excellent opinion piece by Erin Aubry Kaplan of the LA Times”
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Asian Pacific Americans for Progress
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,ContinueContinue reading “Asian Pacific Americans for Progress”
Newsweek’s Ellis Cose Commentary
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.