Emil Amok » Cry for Ming-Hui Yu

Cry for Ming-Hui Yu

By: Emil, Apr 11, 2008

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If you haven’t heard about Ming-Hui Yu, maybe it’s time you did.

Does he look like a nerdy 24-year-old statistics grad student at New York’s Columbia University?

Does he look like a victim?

He was struck and killed by a Jeep last week in New York when he was forced into traffic after being harassed by a some teenage thugs. The New York Post reported that he was punched while another teenager was on the lookout. Robbery doesn’t appear to be the motive. One of the teens has been arrested and charged with manslaughter. But reports say one teenager bragged, “Look what I do to this one.”

If it were a gang of Asians ganging up on black teenagers, and someone DIED, we’d no doubt see Al Sharpton pontificating somewhere on the media looking for justice, and perhaps even leading pro-Tibet rallies in recent days.

But no one is crying for Ming-Hui Yu.

And we all should.

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/30254

http://gothamist.com/2008/04/06/13_year_old.php

Comments

the pigs must be flying; i think i agree with Emil

–reader on Apr 11, 2008
i think instead of just grieving we should get everyone to email al sharpton and demand a response. let’s story he can make up about this one

–guest. on Apr 11, 2008
Thanks Emil. We don’t see CNN gathering pundits about this one. Who is the Asian Al Sharpton?

–Tony on Apr 15, 2008
I think I was the first one to spot this, and I got this from …. conservative commentator Ann Coulter who noted, as most official news stories did not, that the assailants were just your average African American kids who may or may not have decided that an Asian made an easier target.
And Emil, you also left out this bit of info which may or may not have had something to do with explaining this bit of random, or maybe not-so-random bit of violence. Seattle press sometimes mentions that the description of a serial groper on the loose in Beacon Hill / Rainier Valley is African American with exclusively Asian female victims. I remember a man in San Jose who was suspected of several assaults, but outside of this picture, did not identify that he was African American or that all of his victims happened to be Asian women. While it is important to maintain some level of political correctness, we should not be blind to when people of Asian background appear to be targeted by other politically protected races.

–awarthurhu on Apr 17, 2008
Arthur:
The first to spot this was the New York Post. Coulter is like us, opining after the fact. And her opinion is bogus. Average kids? How does she know. The kids are arrested and in custody now. What they did wasn’t average or civil.
But please note the race of the perps really is irrelevant—to a point. I don’t make a big deal of it in my post. But they are African American, and Sharpton–always there for black victims—should be there for young black perps to let them know that this behavior is not cool.
I don’t think one should be blind to facts. But in standard reporting, it is important to maintain a sense detachment.
Of course, the standard is loosened in opinion and editorial commentary. But journalists who opine are still journalists.It’s not a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of what defines good journalism. Even when amok, you ‘ve got to have standards.

–Emil on Apr 17, 2008
We should pray for Ming-Hui Yu and his family. He was alone at the wrong time and wrong place. Nothing more, nothing less.

Remember when Cho shot and killed 32 students, and the Korean Americans were bracing for a backlash. It was so beautiful when peace prevail and everybody there prayed for the victims. They did not let hatred overtake them.

–Huang Fong on Apr 22, 2008

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