There’s an unspoken reason that Blacks are attacking Asian people. It’s time to be honest about the source of some of this aggression.

Woom Sing Tse arrived in America from communist China almost 50 years ago with $100 to his name and worked his way up to owning a successful restaurant. On Wednesday, a 23-year-old Black career criminal executed him on Chicago’s streets. Maybe a rival paid for this hit or maybe this was yet another example of the Black community’s incredible hostility to Asians.

The core story is awful:

A Chicago man who loved ones said was the “epitome” of the American dream was shot dead while walking to buy a newspaper a block from his home Tuesday.
Woom Sing Tse, 71, had just finished eating lunch with his wife at their Chinatown home, when he was executed by a man who pulled up in a silver car as he walked to his local store, according to WGN.
Surveillance video obtained by the station showed the gunman opening fire from inside the car. The driver then got out of the car to fire another shot at Tse as he laid on the ground, the footage showed.
The suspect, identified as Alphonso Joyner, 23, was later arrested, and charged with first-degree murder, CBS Chicago reported.
Joyner had previously been arrested four times, including two gun charges, one of which he had pleaded guilty to, the station said. No motive for the ghastly attack was reported.

This is not the first Black-on-Asian attack to show up in the news. We read regularly about Blacks attacking Asians, whether it’s stories about beating them up, stabbing them, or shooting them. Back in August, the FBI reported that hate crimes against Asians had risen by 70% over the past year. The report does not mention that it’s mostly Blacks who are committing these crimes.

At the most primitive level, the anti-Asian crimes increased because ill-educated people, when hearing that the Wuhan flu originated in communist China, decided to make their displeasure known by attacking people who had escaped from communist China. This simplistic thinking is common in marginalized communities—and marginalized often means Black.

At a secondary level, Blacks have for decades competed with Asians for resources in poor neighborhoods. In San Francisco, as Asians poured in from the 1960s through the 1980s, they moved into the Tenderloin and Bayview Districts, both of which had long been Black redoubts. Just as happened when Puerto Ricans started moving into historically Black districts, there was an uptick in Black violence against the interlopers, who were squeezing them out of rental property and entry-level jobs.

Both of those are acknowledged reasons for Black on Asian violence. But there’s another reason that few people like to talk about: Asians go from ghetto to suburbs in one generation and, often, from suburbs to chi-chi upper-class communities in just one or two generations. If you think about the fact that Asians came to America broke, speaking no English, and often facing substantial prejudice, their success puts the lie to Black claims that there’s no way Blacks can achieve success in a country as racist as America.

Asians, unlike Blacks with deep roots in America, arrived here relatively recently, broke, and unable to speak English. In that regard, one might say that Blacks have been better positioned for success.

The real difference between the two groups is simple: *Education*.

Asians (Chinese, Indians, Koreans, Filipino, etc.) revere it. Here in NY, in high schools like Stuyvesant or Bronx Science that require an exam to enter, Asian students whom we called “FOBs,” or “fresh off the boats,” within a year or two were pulling higher grades than any native-born California kids (yep, whites included, with Jews being the exception ).

Blacks have for decades competed with Asians for resources in poor neighborhoods.

"Resources" in this context is buzz-word that leftists absolutely LOVE. Every stupid progressive and lazy social worker I know seasons their comments like hot-sauce with this word. Shame on this author for using a leftist cliche like "competition for resources."

its loaded with the zero-sum-game, power-hierarchy assumptions of the Left.

“...their success puts the lie to Black claims that there’s no way Blacks can achieve success in a country as racist as America.”

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No it doesn’t.
All you have to do is think like lefty liberal. I can tell you right now what they would say. It would be some variation of “Systemic racism doesn’t harm Asians. White supremacists mostly only hate dark skinned people”.

Don’t doubt me. I’ve had a lot of conversations with these people. They mostly believe it but you can usually see their gears turning. What they really want is an answer that makes people of European ancestry the culprit, and they don’t use any genuine intellectual rigor to arrive at that place.

RE: Resources

To the left, the economy looks like one fixed sized pie where if some group grabs a huge chunk of the pie ( regardless of how it’s done, never mind hard work and entrepreneurship ), the rest will be left nibbling at what’s left of the pie.

It never occurs to them to GROW THE SIZE of the pie so that everyone will have enough to satisfy their needs.

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