Reprinted in full is an essay published March 27 on the New America Media website. A Shared History And Vision By Stewart Kwoh & Julie A. Su, APA Legal Center Editor’s Note: A column published in Asian Week entitled “Why I Hate Blacks” promoted dismay across the ethnic media and prompted NAM to host aContinueContinue reading “Essay on Asians and Blacks Sharing a Civil Rights History and Vision”
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Chronicle Brief on Editor Changes
Excerpt from Chronicle brief in today’s paper: AsianWeek Editor Samson Wong has been removed as editor in chief of the publication and reassigned as a result of the furor that followed publication in late February of a column titled “Why I Hate Blacks.” Wong has been reassigned to a job of “senior editorial consultant,” AsianWeekContinueContinue reading “Chronicle Brief on Editor Changes”
Excellent opinion piece by Erin Aubry Kaplan of the LA Times
In the most articulate summary to date of the issues related to the AsianWeek publication of hate speech, Erin Aubry Kaplan writes in today’s LA Times: The column, published in the San Francisco-based AsianWeek newspaper in the waning days of African American History Month, was so astonishingly hateful that activists of all stripes immediately rushedContinueContinue reading “Excellent opinion piece by Erin Aubry Kaplan of the LA Times”