THE ANGRIEST ASIAN MAN
who could hate someone this wuvable?*
The Ken Eng/Asian Weak [no sic] debacle continues to roll. I was watching CNN on closed caption on the gym (Paula Zhan helps keep that pulse high, if you know what I mean) and even they did a story on him.
It tackled what I feared - the whole, "we need more dialogue" response from both Blacks and Asians.
Again, it's not that I think dialogue is bad and I suppose it's better to have this be the source of it vs. say, racially fueled murder in Harbor Gateway, BUT if it takes something as completely ridiculous and idiotic as Eng to get Asians and Blacks in S.F. (and beyond) to talk to one another...yikes!
One thing that was predictably annoying about CNN's coverage was the deep-voiced (well, presumably deep-voiced, this was closed-captioned) intonation that, "the column has exposed hidden racial tensions in San Francisco." Uh, the racial tensions are not "hidden." Most are in plain view. You hear that phrase bandied around a lot - say, during the Duke lacrosse rape controversy - and what anyone will tell you in these places is that the racial tension is hardly lurking beneath the surface.
That said, the CNN piece did do a good job of connecting Eng's column with a larger issue in S.F., namely how the city (next to New Orleans) is seeing the most rapidly declining African American population in America, not the least of which is because ballooning housing prices and gentrification of the 3rd St. corridor (which runs through Bayview/Hunter's Point) is making the city economically untenable for Black residents. CNN also noted that as Black populations have been falling, guess which ethnic group has been on the rise? With or without a causal relationship between those two trends, it likely helps fuel those (cough cough) "hidden" tensions.
In the meantime, rooting through Eng's seemingly endless trove of delusional blog and column entries has become a favorite pastime for people seeking to understand his god-like genius...and indeed, it may very well be that Eng's intellect is beyond human comprehension since most of what he writes doesn't make any f----- sense. Before Asian Weak takes down the links, be sure to read some of these nuggets of omnipotent/omniscient wisdom:
Why Non-Violent Protest Will Never Help Asians. (Note: this isn't quite as good as a Black Panthers or Malcolm X speech on the same topic)
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Incident 1
Diary of an Attack
What's most remarkable about these posts is that they were ever published to begin with. I know that's been said repeatedly in regards to the "Why I Hate Blacks" column but I didn't realize the depths of Eng's paranoid delusions until reading all his back columns. The various people who left comments under the web-versios of the column already knew he was crazy - and unfit for newspaper publishing - months ago.
It becomes even more confusing as to why Asian Weak ever agreed to give him a column, or at the very least, KEEP a column. While Eng has NOW been severed from the publication, I think in this case, there's going to have to be some other heads that roll though, one can note in their masthead - their Editor-at-Large is Ted Fang, son of the publisher, and presumably, he's not about to get fired. I would think EIC Samson Wong should be cleaning out his desk sometime soon too.
By the way, here's the paper's too-little-too-late mea cupla.
*Picture courtesy of Soulstrut
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