Posted on 12/01/2004 6:54:24 PM PST by PjhCPA
Years of racism and hatred directed at the Hmong? Behind the Wisconsin shootings
By Elizabeth Schulte | December 3, 2004 | Page 2
BREWING RACIAL tensions reached the boiling point in late November when a Hmong-American shot and killed six white hunters in Wisconsin's North Woods.
Chai Vang, a 36-year-old Hmong-American, was hunting on November 21 when he was approached by white hunters who told him that he was on private property. Vang told police that after he climbed down from the hunting platform, the men surrounded him and spewed racial epithets like ?gook, chink and fucking Asian? at him.
According to Vang?s statement to police, he walked away from the platform. But 20 yards away, he turned and saw one of the men pointing a rifle at him. Vang opened fire, killing six of the men and wounding two others.
His bail was set at $2.5 million, and he was scheduled to be charged November 30 with six counts of homicide and two counts of attempted homicide.
Hmong community leaders quickly responded to the shooting with condolences for the family of the slain hunters. But this horrible shooting has brought to the surface a pattern of racism against the Hmong that dates back well before the incident.
The Hmong are from Laos, where the Central Intelligence Agency recruited many to be part of an anti-Communist secret army during the Vietnam War. Vang himself came to the U.S. in 1980 and got training as a sharpshooter in the California National Guard. Today, he lives in St. Paul, Minn., which has the greatest urban concentration of Hmong in the U.S.
While few Hmong live in the Wisconsin area where the shooting happened, several have reported incidents of racism during hunting trips in the area. Ying Vang, executive director of a Hmong community center, told the New York Times that whites regularly hurl racist insults at Hmong-American hunters.
Curt Hubatch, a community activist from the Hayward area near the site of the shooting, told Socialist Worker, ?I think the Mr. Vang?s reaction was simply the result of years of racism, and hatred, directed towards him as a minority in this country. Probably within the past 10 years, there hasn't been a hunting season that has went by where I haven't heard a negative comment about Hmong hunters.?
Ilean Her, director of the Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans, says that she has now received several phone calls from Hmong school teachers whose students are scared--and others from Hmong hunters who want to speak out about the racism that they have experienced.
?The level of violence was a surprise, but the run-in is not a surprise,? she told Socialist Worker. ?The Hmong hunters are scared, and they?ve also realized that it?s time to speak out about what has happened to them.?
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This article is highly offensive. The alert was appropriate. Other comments that come to my mind after readning article will be left unposted.
Just BAAARRRFF
Well, then if they were using racial epithets against him, that makes him shooting them, uhm, self-defense. Uh-huh.
White guilt. It's all the rage in the white midwest. They even know all about the racist south too. I had a high school psychologist explain it to me. She admitted she researched her thesis on a racist south by driving thru it once on her way to Florida during a whole eight hours and a stop at a Waffle House. She earns $85,000 a year to coach and form the minds of teenagers. She only works eight months out of the year at that.
So I suppose following the same logic, that every soldier in basic training should be excused for murdering his drill instructor and superior officers running the base?
And this is just one more example of how the left upholds or defends the violence of any minority against heterosexual white males. I was going to say Christian also, but they have been defending the persecutors of Jews quite a bit too.
Anti-white male hatred, along with anti-semitism, are quite in vogue among these leftists, which is why you see far fewer white males leading the left today.
It is also why the left is doomed to permanent minority status if they dont change direction soon, as Hispanics regard themselves as white and are as put off with these people as most conservatives are.
The left is its own worst enemy it would seem.
Thank God.
Thanks, PjhCPA.
Nonsense like this, but about Wisconsin, and it's written by
SCHULTE
first word
BREWING
There's a commercial in there somewhere.
The balkanization of America...
The guy says he was motivated by race. That makes it a hate crime. Don't they have a federal death penalty for hate crimes?
Consider the source. Some Socialist rag that has no credibility.
The Socialist Worker?
Wisconsin folks are not going to react well to this kind of garbage. Did everyone see the HUGE number of fans at the Monday Night Football game in Green Bay wearing camo and hunter orange? I'm guessing this was in support of the victims.
"According to Vang's statement to police, he walked away from the platform. But 20 yards away, he turned and saw one of the men pointing a rifle at him. Vang opened fire, killing six of the men and wounding two others."
According to police, Vang's original statement was that after he climbed out of the treestand, the Wisconsin resident that had confronted him took his (Vang's) rifle, shot everybody and forced Vang to walk up to each body in order to leave his (Vang's) footprints.
See the pattern, here?
Yes, attendees were asked to wear orange in support of the hunters.
All his stories are bullcrap. He wandered in the woods for 5 hours before being arrested, and that's the best story he could up with?
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