The editor of weekly newspaper AsianWeek has apologised after the Asian-American community in the US condemned a column titled "Why I Hate Blacks." In the article, which appeared in the February 23 edition of San Francisco-based publication, contributor Kenneth Eng listed reasons why he supported discrimination against blacks -- including because "they are the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years."
Eng has already been dismissed.

Leaders at the Asian American Justice Centre, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Coalition for Asian Pacific Americans and other groups circulated a petition denouncing the column as "irresponsible journalism, blatantly racist, replete with stereotypes, and deeply hurtful to African Americans."
"It certainly does not speak for the vast majority of Asian Americans," Stewart Kwoh, who heads the Asian Pacific American Legal Centre in Los Angeles, said Tuesday, according to an Associated Press (AP) report.. "This kind of inflammatory (column) really can hurt and damage relations with the broader African-American community."
The petition called on AsianWeek to cut ties with Eng, issue an apology, print an editorial refuting the column, and fire or demote the editors who published it. AsianWeek, which has a circulation of 48,505, issued a statement apologising for "any harm or hurt this has caused the African American community."
"The newspaper is sorry that this got published, and I am personally sorry that this got published," the paper’s editor-at-large, Ted Fang, told the Associated Press (AP). "The views in that opinion piece do not in any way reflect the views of AsianWeek." The paper plans to review its policies to "understand how this happened and make sure it doesn't happen again," Fang said, calling the decision to publish Eng's piece a "mistake."
Fang's family publishes AsianWeek, along with a local newspaper called the Independent, and owned the San Francisco Examiner between 2000 and 2004.
Kenneth Eng, who has described himself as an "Asian Supremacist," has written several columns for AsianWeek since November, including pieces titled "Proof That Whites Inherently Hate Us" and "Why I Hate Asians."
Some of the paper's critics have said the editors who approved this week's column should be held accountable for its contents, but Fang has refused to address the subject. "We think the editor responsible for green-lighting the column should be removed," said Keith Kamisugi of the Equal Justice Society, one of the sponsors of a petition demanding that AsianWeek terminate Eng, counter the column in print and review its processes. "Removing Eng was a small part of the problem. We are looking for journalistic responsibility at AsianWeek," he told the San Francisco Chronicle.