Response to Emails

I'm getting nasty emails and comments (which I immediately delete) calling me racist, homophobe etc.

I don't mind being called a homophobe. The definition of homophobe (or homophobia) according to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary is:

irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals

The word that best describes my reaction is "aversion to." That is exactly right: I have an aversion to homosexuals and homosexuality.

So, I don't mind, and I even welcome, being called a homophobe. Racist is another thing. It somehow goes to a deeper core. I don't have and aversion to, and irrational fear of, or a hatred of other races.

The online dictionary at Dictionary.com defines racist thus:

The belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others

Yes, there are racial differences. Everyone know that. Even those who cry "racist" at any occasion.

And yes, some races have accomplished more than others. Everyone accepts that. Even those who cry "racist" at any occasion.

But, I don't believe that any race is morally, or spiritually, superior that others.

This is hot button issue, and people like Larry Auster have spent years unraveling the difficult and volatile race-relations in America. But even Larry didn't believe in the superiority of one race over another.

My regular (now irregular) posts on Asians is not so much how inferior they are to whites, but how their accomplishments are inferior to whites.

Probably Asians will feel comfortable and at home in their own homelands. That is why at some point I was advocating a peaceful return of Asians (first, second, tenth generation) back to Korea, China and the Philipines and India. Race and culture is a strong, lingering element of the human psyche. Third generation Asians do not forget their Asian ancestry! They do not feel "at home" in the white culture of America and Canada. They subtly and earnestly maintain aspects of their ancestral culture, even if they have never been in their ancestral lands.

Look at Vera Wang, and her whole array of red wedding dresses - inspired by the red wedding gowns of her Chinese background. Wang was born and brought up in the United States. She is, for all purposes, an American. Yet, these many years on, she still cannot fully and wholeheartedly relate to the American, white culture.


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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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