-By Warner Todd Huston
An Asian Writer Copping Jesse Jackson’s Race-baiting Game Attacked By San Francisco Chronicle For ‘Why I Hate Blacks’ Article
There is a saying that is often bandied about by whites feigning what might be ridiculed as an American Black person’s defeatist demeanor. It is used when whites want to make fun of the kind of attitude that assumes everyone in power is somehow out to get you. It goes like this: “I’m tired of the white man keeping me down.” It’s an eye-rolling proclamation, but it is one that many whites assume is inculcated in Black Americans all across the country. Of course it is an unwelcome stereotype.
It is a stereotype, however, that has been adopted as reality in all too real a sense by American Universities and is posited as a raison d’etre for wasting time and money on things like “Black studies” programs. The sentiment is replicated in “Hispanic studies”, “Women’s studies”, and “Gay studies” in equal measures and with as much illegitimacy.
The (insert group here) is keeping you down so rebel against it. Be angry. “Speak truth to power”.
It’s clap-trap, of course.
But, for years our Universities have cultivated this race-baiting to excuse their attempts to “right” our society’s “wrongs” by spending huge piles of cash on specialty programs like those aforementioned. Naturally, the only way to lay the groundwork for founding these programs, a feeling of oppression of minorities must be promulgated. It must be constantly reinforced that minorities are being put upon, ignored, and mistreated by everyone else, because, should minorities begin to feel in any way equal or able to get ahead by their own rights, such foolish preoccupations with these separatist “studies” programs would find no constituency and those who make their living from them would be out of work.
Recently, a 20-year-old Asian American penned a shocking article he titled “Why I Hate Blacks” that appeared in a little known paper called AsianWeek out of San Francisco, California (his article has since been removed from the website). Writer Kenneth Eng’s rambling piece voices a sentiment that some Asians admittedly feel about Blacks in America, but it is a sentiment that should not be voiced to excuse hate or guide interaction between Asian and Black Americans.
In part, Eng wrote:
- “Blacks hate us. Every Asian who has ever come across them knows that they take almost every opportunity to hurl racist remarks at us.”
- “Contrary to media depictions, I would argue that blacks are weak-willed. They are the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years.”
- “Blacks are easy to coerce. This is proven by the fact that so many of them, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, tend to be Christians.
Rightly the SFChronicle gives space to the shock and displeasure that both Asians and Blacks feel for this young man’s racist efforts to put further wedges between them. But they miss something in their story about this hate-filled young man, Eng. Where did he learn this radicalized behavior?
The clue is right in the Chronicle’s story, but it goes undeveloped.
Eng, who is in his early 20s, according to material on the Internet promoting his science fiction writing, started at AsianWeek in November after moving from the East Coast. In 2004, for an online magazine called Down in the Dirt, he wrote about experiencing racism as an Asian American student at New York University after he “expressed my negative views on America, religion and African Americans.”
Other AsianWeek columns of Eng’s — including “Proof That Whites Inherently Hate Us” and “Why I Hate Asians” — have resulted in criticism. In the first, he complained about the scarcity of Asian heroes in the media. In the second, he described Asian Americans as apathetic, brown-nosing and lacking in cultural pride.
(Emphasis mine)
I reiterate, “…he wrote about experiencing racism as an Asian American student at New York University…”
And there you have it. Eng has learned his race-baiting from an American University and was likely encouraged to vent his racist tripe therein. I’d bet his ranting was met with the grave nods of professors who solemnly celebrated his “speaking truth to power”.
What we have here is just another race-baiter spewed forth from an American University.
But, who should be surprised? After all, this feeling of hate and rage is the very basis for whole departments in our Universities and serves as an underlying sentiment for how philosophy, history, psychology and the social sciences are taught.
This young Asian American racist is but carrying on in the vein in which he was taught. It should surprise no one that he has taken it all to heart as such sentiments fills every corner of the American University today. So, How can they be so angry at this dimwitted kid who has learned precisely what the University wanted him to learn?
Perhaps, though, they are mad at him because he took that prosaic University hatred and personalized it. After all, Universities only want people to feel Blacks, women, gays and Hispanics are “put down” — not Asians. Kenneth Eng wasn’t supposed to take that hate and apply it to HIS people!
The Chronicle equates young Eng’s nonsense to the KKK. That’s all well and good and a perfectly apt comparison. But how often do you think they do the same with Farrakhan, Jackson or Sharpton? How often do you think the Chronicle scolds “Black studies”, “Women’s studies”, “gay studies, or “Hispanic studies”? How often do they attack the tripe that comes from someone like a Cornel West?
I’d bet not at all.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, men’snewsdaily.com and americandaily.com among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a guest on several radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
I respectfully disagree with a few of your points.
I am an African American female and I have taken both Chicano American studies and Asian studies at UCLA out of a general curiosity and fascination with different cultures. I learned to speak spanish and am in the process of learning Korean and Mandarin. I think (insert group here) studies provide a great understanding and interaction with people of a different culture and it can help to foster cultural sensitivity when you learn that people are not completely unlike you.
Also, Eng didn’t LEARN the race baiting at an American University. He learned it before. Eng idolizes Hitler. He states that he would express his negative views on America, African Americans, and religion at NYU. He didn’t become a racist because he was a student at NYU and he was discriminated against because he was Asian. He was discriminated against because he’s a racist moron who happens to be Asian. I am concerned about his mental health. Not because he is a racist but because he has stated that he’s been out of the house “a handful of times” and each time he was called racist names more than “10 times”.
Eng is Chinese and NYU does have an East Asian Studies department as well as Asian Pacific American Studies. I support Eng’s constitutional right to say whatever he wants and I think it was wrong of the paper to fire him. But he’s still an idiot in my opinion.
Also there are plenty of “White Studies” classes as well. The mandatory American History is full of tales of white people. If you want to learn about European history then there are also European & Mediterranean Studies courses as well. When is the last time you went to college?
Thanks for the message, but I’ll have to return the disagreement.
Here is some of the victim mentality I am talking about in your reply…”Also there are plenty of ‘White Studies’ classes as well. The mandatory American History is full of tales of white people”.
No, it is NOT “white studies”. It is HISTORY!!
Just because it was whites of European background that were the chief movers and shakers to create the USA does NOT mean, consequently, it is “white studies” to study that history! You have been trained through victim mentality to view it that way, however.
I am COMPLETELY against these silly, balkanized programs. I see NOTHING of worth in them whatsoever.
History encompasses ALL peoples everywhere. It isn’t “black” history, or “white” history. To teach history as some particular race’s own entity is foolish.
Such separatist “studies” are useless and should be eliminated as it teaches stilted, hateful, and INCORRECT views of history as well as inculcating a hatred in society of the races keeping them at each other’s throats. Perhaps, though, you want the races to hate each other?
Thanks again for the comment.