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On racism in USA,
reply to J. Fuerte
This is about the letter of Juantio T. Fuerte
(November 30, 2008) about my comment on PRC-US relations.
My letter was about the points Mr. Rene Bas has
been making in his Enthusiasms and Forebodings column and the
editorial of November 27 “China can—and must—aid America.”
First, I must tell Mr. Fuerte that I, too, am an
American like him. I happen to live in Hong Kong because I work
here.
I voted for Barack Obama. I can see that despite
Barack’s bad words about China in the past, he now realizes that
he has to improve the way President Bush and his men have handled
relationships with China, Japan and Korea.
Mr. Forte should read Niall Fergu-son’s works.
He should pay attention to what people have
written before venting his spleen against their views. He obviously
did not give any importance to my point that MANY (not all) in the
American population, despite Abe Lincoln, the US Civil War, Medgar
Evers, etcetera, for a long time would not give black Americans
their full human rights and the power to exercise suffrage even when
there were already laws giving them the vote. That is nothing else
but anti-black racism.
But they eventually changed. They showed that
they had surmounted their racial prejudice by electing Barack Obama.
He did not win a popular vote landslide, though. His landslide is in
the electoral college votes.
Mr. Fuerte should read my letter more carefully
to understand my point and see that I am hopeful that in the end
those Americans who now have racist feelings towards slant-eyed
Asians would lose their prejudice just as today MOST Americans have
lost their racism against blacks.
Another point. Fuerte tries to prove that
because America, my and his country, has been engaged in a
partnership with slant-eyed Japanese and South Koreans therefore it
is not true as I have observed that MANY Americans (I did not say
ALL Americans, I did not include such Americans as myself and maybe
Mr. Fuerte) are racist towards slant-eyed people. Fuerte obviously
does not know that the USA has betrayed its partnership with Japan
and South Korea many times. The latest instance was when President
Bush unilaterally removed North Korea from the list of terrorist
states, against Japan’s and S. Korea’s wishes.
Joachim Prosper
Hong Kong
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