A Chinese newspaper in San Francisco ran an article entitled "Why I Hate Blacks" and nothing was done. Why?

Question

Can you imagine if that article was posted in the New York Times? Is it all races against whites now? Are minorities allowed to attack other minorities without repercussion?

Answer 1

The newspaper posted a cover page apology months ago. Where have you been? Are you sure you even live hear or read the "article?" (It was actually a syndicated editorial, I believe they decided they wouldn't run any of that editor's work any more)

An editor of a weekly newspaper calling itself "The Voice of Asian America" apologized and suspended a columnist after Asian-American and city leaders condemned an opinion piece titled "Why I Hate Blacks."


In the piece, which appeared in the Feb. 23 edition of San Francisco-based AsianWeek, contributor Kenneth Eng lists reasons why he supports discrimination against blacks — including because "they are the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years."


Leaders at the Asian American Justice Center, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Coalition for Asian Pacific Americans and other groups are circulating a petition denouncing the column as "irresponsible journalism, blatantly racist, replete with stereotypes, and deeply hurtful to African Americans."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/28/state/n124447S18.DTL&hw=kenneth+eng&sn=001&sc=1000

AsianWeek, Feb 28, 2007


AsianWeek sincerely regrets and apologizes for publishing New York-based contributor Kenneth Eng’s column in the issue of February 23, 2007. AsianWeek rejects Eng’s biased views on a critical segment of American society, African Americans.

While AsianWeek continues to truly believe in diversity of opinion and freedom of the press, we are also very aware that the promotion of hate speech is not appropriate, nor should it be encouraged.

Given that the genesis of the American civil rights movement was borne primarily by the African American community through blood and perseverance, the failing of our editorial process in allowing this opinion piece to go forward, was an insensitive and callous mistake that should never have been made by our publication.

http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=35777980afa2fbc1aa0d041d7342ab08

Answer 2

That's messed up. Maybe because it wasn't a main paper it wasn't really noticed?