- Longing For a New Front In The Race Wars
"Its very important to progressives that Asian-Americans feel themselves to be threatened by whites.
Far too important an agenda item to be left to mere facts and fate.
From a different direction, Slate chatted with a properly progressive prof who was intent on explaining that any notion of Asian-American tension with Blacks is just lazy thinking.
- Are you remembering Korean-American shopkeeprs standing on their store rooftops during the LA riots?
- Or Al Sharpton leading protests against Asian-American deli owners in NYC? Don't be lazy!
And if you use that frame, you make it an Asian-Black thing, you’re focusing on the two groups and taking attention away from the larger structures of power in which they’re embedded—not just racial structures, but also capitalism. Think about the relationship between Korean merchants buying a liquor store in Compton, and their Black customers. This is about capitalism, the way it creates divisions between groups and deems certain people disposable.
Slate closes with solid advice from the professor - even if you're getting assaulted by a Black person, remember the real enemy!...Read all!












