What made Eng write that column in the first place? Why does he say that he hates blacks and whites and even his fellow Asians? With me now is self-proclaimed Asian supremacist Kenneth Eng.
So, Mr. Eng, have you changed your mind?
KENNETH ENG, AUTHOR OF “WHY I HATE BLACKS”: Well no, and personally if I’m racist then so is Sofia Coppola. And more importantly I’d like to talk about the philosophy of “Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate,” which tells a story about cyborg dragons fighting in the Middle Ages. And in this realm, evolution has worked in a more logical way, even though it’s in a fantasy setting which makes it logical that dragons are more superior than humans, in that they have intelligence and are larger and they can…
IBSON: You’re talking about some of your science fiction writing. You’re a science fiction writer, correct?
ENG: Yes, but it relates to this as well.
GIBSON: But in your column you say, “I hate black people.” In an earlier column you said you hate white people. You also said in an earlier column, evidently, I hate Asians. Now why is it you have, I mean, do you really believe that? You hate all those different people?
ENG: Well, I generally hate black and white people, but the Asian article was sarcastic. It’s kind of like the sarcasm I had in my novel, in which dragons slay tons and tons of humans. But this relates to — in the sense that dragons logically follow evolution so they would be able to wield metal.
GIBSON: Right, but you don’t have any regrets about saying something as overtly racist as you hate somebody because they’re black or because they’re white?
ENG: Evidently Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino have nothing against that and neither does Shaquille O’Neal and Chris Tucker. So I have no regrets at all.
GIBSON: Why do you hate blacks?
ENG: Well, you know, just to be blunt, 90 percent of them usually walk up to me and call me, you know, like for instance, ching-chong and stuff like that. I mean, I don’t really give a damn, but you know, I mean, after a while it gets pretty damn annoying. And not to mention they get so much media attention. But you know, I mean aside from that, you probably want to know why I call myself the god of the universe as well.
This guy is seriously off his rocker. No one wants to hear about your book (which, if the preview on Amazon is anything like the entire book, looks pretty awful) or your delusions of grandeur, Kenneth. They want to know what you were thinking when you wrote that stupid, racist column.
On a more serious note, he does explain why he’s so angry further on in the interview; basically, he is sick of being discriminated against because he’s Chinese American. Which is understandable. However, he never seems to make the connect between the racism against him and his own racism. And his constant attempts to use the interview as some sort of marketing scheme seemed a little batshit. Just like these links, rounded up by SFist.
