I WANTED to wait to see if there was more to the issue, but since there was nothing I thought I’d give my two cents.
Noel Quintana, a 61-year-old expat from Manila, was beaten up by what appeared to be a black person. If you don’t believe me, go look it up on Google yourself.
Quintana is one of several Asian-derived victims who were recently attacked by other nonwhites. For a country like the United States, this is a problem. Non-whites being racist to one another must be downplayed, because it goes against the social ideology of equality without reference to “White Supremacy.”
To support this argument, here’s an article entitled, “I want justice for anti-Asian violence — but not at the expense of Black people” by Melissa Pandika at Mic.com. Google it.
As a Filipino, I want everyone to know the truth behind Quintana’s case, but America’s distorted racial politics would rather sweep it under the rug because the suspected assailant is not a Neo-Nazi skinhead but a person of African descent.
This is because American socio-cultural norms regarding “social/racial justice” operates using the following narrative: America was built by Europeans, and as such is structured in a way that benefits people of European ancestry.
Therefore, the only racism that matters involves white people, because it is they (White People) that hold the power.
When a non-white carries out racist attacks, it’s tragic but it is ultimately meaningless. When a white person does it, he/she is exercising white supremacy and is supported by the historical institutions of the United States. Therefore, Quintana’s assault case cannot really be described as racism in the deepest sense of the word.
I find this reasoning questionable, but that’s the American ideology and it’s their country, not mine. Racism cannot be synonymous with people of European descent, and yet, for cynical ideological reasons, it is.
This ideology is concealing certain important truths. Africans and Asians are capable of racism, even more so, than most people think. For example, there are stories of African immigrants getting abused in China during the COVID pandemic, while in Africa, anti-Asian hostility is nothing new.
In 1972, for example, the Ugandan government expelled Asians from the country.
Just because Western anti-racist ideologues don’t wish to recognize that fact will not make it go away, and as more and more Asians, Latin American and Africans continue to enter into America, I expect more and more of such cases to grow./PN
