Asian Week Not Off the Hook for Firing Kenneth Eng

While Asian Week now says that its editorial process is “under review,” how did they even hire someone like Eng in the first place? As the editors of SFist have proven, an online search of Kenneth Eng provides plenty of evidence that he is at worst a racist – or at best extremely angry and unstable. In an age of Google searches, the editors of Asian Week had simply no excuse to not know whom they were dealing with. Eng was a symptom of a larger problem, and more questions need to be answered before the paper regains its reputation in the community.

I have read in the past few days more of Eng’s writings than anyone should, and the only conclusion I can come up with is that he is a vicious racist. On his personal blog, Eng wrote in January 2007 that religious people “tend to be incredibly stupid or poor,” and are “usually black/hispanic immigrants who do not have the brains or the balls to understand science and thus resort to reading retarded stories about saviors and saints.”

In August 2004, Eng recounted in an online webzine his experiences at NYU where he encountered “anti-Asian discrimination,” and was ostracized for his provocative views. But he never elaborates in the piece what his actual opinions were, besides “Hitler was not a coward” and that African-Americans receive “unfair assistance.” While opposing affirmative action is not necessarily racist, anyone who reads the article can tell that Eng has a serious chip on his shoulder, and that his rhetoric could easily descend into hate speech.

But the most disturbing part of Eng’s writings is a website that he created called “Yellow Skull” – where he urges Asian-Americans to unite against blacks and whites, and to “finally make those big-eyed fuckers suffer.” He calls both white and black people “the enemy,” glorifies Asians who have killed whites in self-defense, and says that white people “deserve” to be decapitated. I don’t recommend viewing the site.

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