asians vs blacks

sf chinatown, by imageneer on flickr

asian-american attacks focus on city hall. 29.04.2010

dirty secret of black-on-asian violence is out. 02.05.2010

bay7gia 5/2/2010 2:18:53 AM
The best way to stop this kind of drama is first, Asian people, or whoever involve into this, need to behave themselves before saying that they are targeted by African Americans and else. Majority of Asian people prejudice Black Males in the society. Whenever they see a black person approach or stand by their side, they automatically, think this person is trying todo something harmful to them regardless all other things. These Asian can never realize that their reactions and behaviors to other people specifically, black ethic group cause or encourage these young black male to pick them as the targets to do things on. Before complaining about being harassed or assaulted, they really need to take a second and think about why it's them, and not others. I don't think the language should be a serious issue that brings these violent people to these misbehave Asians, but themselves. Maybe it's just cultural, but they need to understand that other people also don't like to be looked downed on.

a little late on posting this; have a few news posts saved up in drafts meaning to repost, but got distracted by mewziks. didn't want to spend too much time browsing the comments on these 2 articles, so just grabbed a decent/mediocre one.

true, there definitely is prejudice coming from asians against black. I mean, just look at what chinese call black people: "huk gwei", lit. black monster/demon. but prejudices/stereotypes aren't usually unfounded. black-on-asian violence has been going on for a while, which spurs the continuation of asians' suspicion and wariness of blacks. My grandparents used to run a corner liquor store in Berkeley, and blacks have always been the ones who've shoplifted. That is not to say they now look on all blacks with hatred, no, they are pretty open-minded, american, and if introduced to a black person, act with friendliness. But still, the stereotyping and prejudice gets passed down (, only for the kids to grow up increasingly americanized and realize how ridiculous this all is). Asian grandparents and parents walking their children through the city would purposely change routes upon hitting a black neighborhood or a street where there are a large (or any) number of black people. "Let's walk on the other side of the street. There's a huk gwei on this side."

Asians living in fear is just stupid. (Unless you're an elderly asian. next paragraph.) That's why I extremely dislike asians and their conservative, prejudiced ways. There needs to be some revolution in Chinese discourse to stop using the words huk gwei, gwei lo (lit. monster person, colloquial for white people) and instead push for more neutral words such as huk yun, bak yun (black person/people, white). Not like this will make a huge change, but hopefully would spark a shift in asian thought on other races to not view them so differently and with such negative light.

Back to the story (on onto another thing), most of the violence is against elderly asians. wtf picking easy targets? weaak. not going to go into the possible reasons for this, but this is a concern. My mom works at the office of a senior housing apartment building in Oakland wherein all but one of the residents are asian. It's not right in Chinatown, but about a block away, and near downtown. Right next door is a corner liquor store where blacks frequent and loiter at, and every so often (or actually I don't know exactly how often) a resident of my mom's building gets robbed by a black person. Like right outside the building.

Not so safe in Oakland, esp. for the asian elderly.