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Re: Prejudice Against Asians is Alive and Well (Score: 1)
by GeoffDB on Monday, May 30 @ 07:50:43 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | When I first started to seriously follow Asian-American politics and social subject matter back in 2000, I was very naive. I am no longer naive. My suspicion has been well cultivated.
I grew up with Vietnamese and Cambodians as a small kid in Oakland (CA). Like any kid I had guy and girl friends who were Asian. For the most part we had good times, but we also fought like cats and dogs. We were kids.
As an adult, I see more clearly that Asians (regardless of ethnicity) are very skin-tone conscious and race-conscious and wallet-concious.
You would have had to have been riding in the same spaceship with the Jetsons or high on weed to not realize the overwhelming consensus by Asians and Asian-Americans to cast all black people in the same category.
Honestly!
Whether you are an African-American at work, in a social club, walking down the street, riding on city transportation or simply saying "hello", Asians lack the capacity to view an average black person as a peaceful human being and an equal member in society.
The only exception that I have see is in Japan. Yes, Japan. I absolutely love and constantly rave about that country.
African-American gangbangers, criminals and social misfits are placed in the same boat with good black people.
I have tried to paint a rosey picture and/or try to determine if the racism is either contained or compartmentalized. It is neither. It is blatant. There is a consensus by Asian-Americans and it is pervasive.
As much as I realize that anti-Asian sentiment is alive and well in America and it is practiced by both white and non-white people, I am confronted with the reality that no matter how bad white-on-Asian racism is, the good white people who reach out to Asians get a much better deal than the black people who reach out to Asians. The reason is Asian racism. |
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