“I am grateful to have these distinguished individuals joining my administration, and I have the greatest confidence that their service will meet the highest standards of this department,” said President Obama. “The American people deserve to have faith that their Justice Department will keep them safe and uphold our most basic rights. This group has the depth of experience and integrity necessary to accomplish these goals.”

“Tony has been an outstanding leader in the firm,” said Steven M. Kaufmann, the Chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Litigation Department in a statement. “He is a tremendous trial lawyer, mentor, and colleague. We will miss Tony as our partner, but are proud that he will bring the skill, values, and dedication that he demonstrated at Morrison & Foerster to the service of the American people. The Justice Department gains a tireless public servant and talented lawyer.”

Tony has been a longtime supporter of the Equal Justice Society. In 2006, he hosted at MoFo and emceed a packed gathering of summer law firm associates to introduce them to the Rollback Campaign. EJS organized and promoted the event.

All of us at EJS congratulate Tony on his appointment and wish him the best at DOJ.

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, the board also voted to support the work of the Asian American Justice Center, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Asian Law Caucus, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans, Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, the Equal Justice Society, Japanese American Citizens League and the Organization of Chinese Americans.

According to board member Nina Ahmad of Philadelphia, “It is so disheartening to have things like this happen. However, it only reaffirms our organization’s commitment to building coalition with other communities.”

Recognizing Asianweek’s longtime commitment and service to the APA community, we are confident they will do the right thing.

The resolution reads as follows:

“WHEREAS the hateful views expressed in Kenneth Eng’s column published in the February 23rd edition of Asian Week must not be tolerated, and Asian Week’s decision to print them was irresponsible;

WHEREAS Eng’s words were not only offensive to African Americans, but to all Americans, and speech that promotes hate has no place in San Francisco or anywhere in our country;

WHEREAS AsianWeek, a publication known for promoting diversity and civil rights, has taken steps in the right direction by issuing an apology and deciding to no longer run material by Mr. Eng;

THEREFORE, be it resolved, that the San Francisco Democratic Central Committee denounces the column by Kenneth Eng, asks Asian Week to re-consider its editorial policy and hold accountable its editor(s) who permitted the column to be published, and calls on Asian Week and all San Franciscans to recommit ourselves to fight racism and promote social justice for all.”

from: editors@dnapress.com
date: Mar 1, 2007 6:18 AM
subject: RE: (Kenneth Eng) Please stop the production of Racist Kenneth Eng’s products

Dear all:

We are absolutely stunned by the writing of Ken Eng.

We will immediately pull out his books from the market and ask our distributors to delete the title from their website. We will work with amazon.com to do the same. It may take a few days.

We apologize again. At the time of his book acceptance there was no indication that things like this would come up to the surface.
Thank you again!

The Team at the small DNA Press publishing house.