ASIAN HATE IN AMERICA: OVER BLOWN AND UNREASONABLY OVERHYPED.

ICHEOKU says Asians are the least victimized group in mass killings in America and they should not be seen to complain as if they are existentially, specifically targeted for elimination or that they are the worst victims of gun violence in America because they are not. White people have been killed most in gun violence in America, followed by black people and Sikh  Indians because of their turban. It is therefore particularly self serving for Asians to lament that because six of them were killed in Atlanta, that now makes them the most targeted victims of gun violence in America. 

It seems that Asians now believe that although Black Lives Matter but Asian Lives Matter More and that they are a protected special breed of Americans who should never be killed because they are not supposed to be amenable to gun violence in America. ICHEOKU says have severally wondered why there was the fever pitched hysteria over what happened in Atlanta. There have been other mass killings in America and the heavens never fell down and there will still be more mass killings in the future. Crazy people are gonna do what crazy people do and America has their fair share of crazy people. But to specifically hinge an action by a crazy fella on Asian hatred is overt presumptuous. 

How about the many black lives that have been lost and continues to be lost to senseless gun violence in America. How about the white people who are frequently killing other white people in America. Hispanic people regularly fall victims of senseless killings in the hands of their fellow Hispanic people in America. Whose hatred caused these? Blacks hatred for one another; whites hating each other or hispanics having no love for themselves? But six Asians were among the eight people killed and it is suddenly due to hatred for Asians. How about the two white victims who were also killed in the Atlanta shooting. Whose hatred caused their killings? Why does these killings not provoke the same level of outrage as the Atlanta murders or is it only when it is a crossover killing between races that it rises to the level of chest beating racist killing. 

A mentally deranged gunman went on a killing rampage in Atlanta, killed eight people, six Asians and two whites, and everybody is shouting like Chicken Little as if the sky has finally tumbled down on America. Even the number of the dead in Atlanta pales in comparison to other mass killings in America including Sandy Hook Elementary, Pulse Night Club, Columbine and Fort Hood, yet the generated outrage over it seems to surpass any other. It must be an abomination of some sort to kill Asians because Asian lives are more sacred than other lives being daily wasted in America and therefore off limit to mass killings. This must be the reason Joe Biden and Kamala Harris tag team hurriedly visited Atlanta to console the Asians but have refused to similarly visit Boulder to console the whites; and have also never deemed it fit to visit Chicago to console with the black community over the killings of black folks. 

ICHEOKU says nobody is celebrating or rejoicing that some Asians were among the Atlanta dead, but the generated hysteria is rather unnerving and unreasonably too high. The rest of the world watching from outside might just think that America is the unsafest place for Asians to be in the world and that there is no parallel to what happened in Atlanta any where in America. But instead of calling it for what it is, just another nut job with a gun gone cuckoo, the narrative is that Asians are being targeted in America for elimination by white supremacists because of the Chinese coronavirus and these narrators completely ignored the fact that two of the victims are white people and that all Asians are not Chinese. It is condemnable and it should be condemned for festering the seeds of racial discord in America and for needlessly creating untoward fear and panic within the Asian American community. 

However, equity demands fairness and the need for equal treatment of all Americans makes it imperative that every life in America should be valued equally; they should matter equally, regardless of their skin color. The government must show the same level of empathy and compassion to every community in America any time people of their race are killed, regardless of the skin color of the killer. It seems that it is only when a white person kills a person of another race that there is outrage in the country but not the other way round or when other races kill each other, which somewhat seems to normalize killing of white people and same race killing of each other. 

America needs to stop this seeming acceptance of blacks killing blacks as a tragic normalcy in America. People generally hurt whenever their loved ones are killed. Blacks are people just like the Asians who are currently mourning their loved ones who were killed in Atlanta; ditto the white families of the two white victims. We can do better as a country and we can start by lowering the temperature on race relationship because it is tearing America apart and a house divided is bound to fall. May the souls of the Atlanta and Boulder murdered as well as all other lost to violence souls now rest.